Hunichen Eliminates Pierce
Chris Hunichen’s tournament continued to move in the right direction with two chunky wins back to back.
After a raise from Hunichen, John Pierce moved all in on a short stack of 69,000 chips and Hunichen called. The players showed their cards for a flip:
John Pierce: 5♣5♠
Chris Hunichen: K♠Q♣
The runout was 6♥9♥9♣Q♠J♦, giving Hunichen the winning pair and eliminating Pierce.
Just a hand earlier, Hunichen also took one from Dan Harrington, who is sitting directly to his right.
Harrington opened from the cutoff to 22,000, Hunichen made it 62,000 on the button.
Harrington called the raise and the players saw the flop of 2♠K♣8♣. Harrington checked and Hunichen bet out 35,000 on the flop. Harrington folded, and the dealer sent a pot of about 150,000 chips to Hunichen.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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700,000
250,000
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250,000 |
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460,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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Busted | |