2009 WSOP Circuit Event - Caesars Las Vegas
$5,150 Circuit Championship Event
Day: 3
His tournament ended when he shoved preflop with ace-king and got called by Justin Bonomo, who held pocket jacks. Pilgrim couldn't connect on a board of and walked away in sixth place. He earned nearly $45,000 for his efforts.
Bonomo, on the other hand, has solidified his chip lead. His two million chips give him a better than 2-to-1 edge over Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi who sits in second with 900,000.
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi has over $6.5 million in tournament earnings, including multiple cashes in the biggest tournaments around the world. He has two WPT titles and numerous wins on the felt in various events.
Dwyte Pilgrim owns two Circuit championship rings. He won the last WSOP-C event at Rincon and will be looking to go back-to-back. Jeremiah "dantes" DeGreef also holds a Circuit ring from when he won the $2,000 event here at Caesars just a few days ago.
Matt Graham has almost $1 million in tournament earnings along with a WSOP bracelet to his name. He also won an event at the 2008 Five Diamond World Poker Classic.
Justin Bonomo is an excellent player with over $1.5 million in career tournament earnings and a fairly long list of cashes all over the world. Bonomo is an accomplished online player as well.
Last, but not least, is Men "The Master" Nguyen. With over $8 million in tournament winnings and a whopping six WSOP bracelets to his name, Nguyen has the most decorative poker resume out of everyone left in the tournament. He also has four WSOP-C victories and will be going for his fifth here today.
Showdown:
Graham:
Mizrachi:
The flop came down . The turn was the and Graham clapped his hands together, but made sure to double check to see if The Grinder held a spade. The river was the meaningless .
Graham had a total of 330,000 chips and is now a little over double that.
Schanbacher showed and was behind Bonomo's . The board of offered no help, and Schanbacher left the table with a seventh-place finish worth $35,878.
The hand brought Bonomo's chip stack to over 1.2 million.
Bonomo tabled and Pilgrim held . Bonomo failed to improve and Pilgrim was able to double up for 250,000 total. He now has over 500,000 in chips.
Justin Bonomo - 970,000
Jack Schanbacher - 800,000
Jeremiah DeGreef - 500,000
Men "The Master" Nguyen - 480,000
Matt Graham - 375,000
Dwyte Pilgrim - 350,000
Nashaat "Tony" Antonious raised to 50,000 before Jack Schanbacher reraised to 140,000. Action was back on Antonious and he moved all in for about 400,000. Schanbacher made the call.
Schanbacher turned over pocket jacks and Antonious revealed Big Slick, . The board ran out and that was it for Antonious. He took home just under $30,000 for his eighth-place finish.
After Justin Bonomo called Matt Graham's 42,000 preflop raise, Serebryakov shoved from the big blind for a total of 328,000. Graham folded and Bonomo tanked for almost a minute before reluctantly making the call and turning up , while Serebryakov showed .
When the board ran out , Bonomo took the pot and Serebryakov exited in ninth place with a payday of $24,666.