Pilgrim has already cashed for more than $285,000 in his career, and is hoping to increase that total today.
2009 WSOP Circuit Event - Caesars Las Vegas
$5,150 Circuit Championship Event
Day: 3
Pilgrim has already cashed for more than $285,000 in his career, and is hoping to increase that total today.
Level: 16
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 1,000
This is The Grinder's third career appearance at a WSOP Circuit final table, and his second final table of 2009.
Justin Bonomo - 775,000
Nashaat Antonius - 740,000
Matt Graham - 525,000
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi - 500,000
Jack Schanbacher - 455,000
Jeremiah DeGreef - 247,000
Dwyte Pilgrim - 210,000
Men "The Master" Nguyen - 160,000
Bert Fujisaki - 90,000
The board ran out and that was it for WSOP bracelet winner Robert Cheung. He took home over $20,000 for his efforts.
With Cheung's elimination, the final ten players are taking a quick five-minute break while they redraw for seats to convene at one table. We'll still need to lose one more player until we're at the official final table.
Adel turned over while DeGreef showed , and caught a ten on the flop. Adel picked up a straight draw on the turn, but couldn't improve, leaving the tournament in 12th place.
A 21-year old student from Miami, Adel's $20,000 payday is his largest tournament cash to date.
Showdown:
Brady:
Bonomo:
Bonomo's tens held up and Brady was sent to the rail in 13th place. Brady will add this $17,939 in prize money to his already $2 million-plus in career tournament earnings. The 28-year old professional poker player from Pennsylvania has over fifty cashes, including first place at the Aruba Poker Classic.
Bonomo now has 630,000 chips and is moving up the leaderboard.
Sluzinski turned up and had Bonomo's dominated. But a flop of gave Bonomo outs, which he hit when the fell on the turn. The meaningless on the river sent Sluzinski to the rail with almost $18,000 for his performance.