He didn't enjoy the chips he won for long because Derek Wolters just left the tournament in 27th place. First he jammed from the button and Andrew Badecker called all-in for his tournament life risking 225,000 chips. The showdown went as followed.
Derek Wolters
Andrew Badecker
The board ran out and Badecker secured a double up. Moments later Wolters was all-in for his last 66,000 chips and Badecker called from the button as did the player in de small blind. The flop came down and Badecker got his chips all-in again.
Andrew Badecker
Small blind
Derek Wolters
The turn was the and the river the giving Badecker and the small blind both half the pot. Wolters is out of here and we are down to 26 players.
We just scooted over to the table in time to see Brian Egger leave the competition. He had been short for a very long time and he eventually found a showdown holding and Kennii Nguyen was holding . The board ran out .
Kenneth Strickland is having a barn storming level 20. He is now up to 410,000 chips and here is how.
Ryan Schmidt raised to 21,000 in first position and Strickland called in the big blind. The flop was and Strickland took down the pot with a 51,000 check-raise after Schmidt had c-bet for 21,000.
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Then Andrew Badecker opened up the action from the cutoff, Joseph Couden moved all-in from the button, Strickland also moved all-in from the big blind and Badecker folded. Strickland's held true against the of Couden and Couden was out.
Andrew Badecker raised the action pre flop to 22,000 and got called by two players, Derek Wolters was in the big blind. The flop came down and Wolters lead out for 30,000 with just 56,000 left behind. Badecker gave it some thought and called after which the third player folded.
The turn was the and Wolters moved all-in. Badecker wasn't happy but eventually made the call. Wolters showed and Badecker threw his cards face down towards the muck. "He's not allowed to do that, it's an all-in pot", Dan Smith said after which the dealer retrieved the cards and showed . Badecker was obviously drawing dead and the river was the meaningless .