Final Day
A Few Chip Counts
Player | Chips |
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AP Ashley Patterson | 600,000(60 BB) |
BG Ben Gur | 540,000(54 BB) |
FL Frank Lillis | 500,000(50 BB) |
LL Lun Luo | 460,000(46 BB) |
ME Marco Espela | 400,000(40 BB) |
375,000(38 BB) | |
YT Yen Ting | 370,000(37 BB) |
170,000(17 BB) |
Three-Way All-in
Mark Solsona open-shoved for 66,000, putting his tournament life on the line. Ben Gur, on the dealer button, called, only to face another all-in jam from Lun Luo for 100,000. Gur called again, covering both players.
Mark Solsona: T♣ T♦
Lun Luo: J♠ J♦
Ben Gur: A♦ K♣
The flop came 8♣ K♠ J♥ , which gave Gur a pair, Luo a set, and left Solsona drawing extremely thin. The turn was the 2♠ , and the river brought a T♥ , which sent Solsona to the payout counter and almost tripled up Luo in the process.
Player | Chips |
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BG Ben Gur | 560,000(70 BB) |
LL Lun Luo | 335,000(42 BB) |
SM Solsona Mark | busted |
Gur Turns Broadway, Sends Phua to the Rail

Ben Gur has piles of chips in front of him after he just stacked Malaysia's Isaac Phua.
The full action was missed, but on a board of J♥ 7♦ T♥ A♣ 6♥ , Phua had a set with T♦ T♣ , but was behind to the turned straight of Gur, who held K♣ Q♦ .
Screams of "pair the board" could be hard from Phua, but they were to no avail as he was eliminated right before the first break, and Gur's stack swelled to almost half a million!
Player | Chips |
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BG Ben Gur | 480,000(80 BB) |
busted |
Clinkscales Chips Up
The action was picked up on a flop of J♠ T♣ Q♣ , where Ben Gur opened to 3,000 and Rex Clinkscales called from the big blind.
On the turn of 8♥ , Clinkscales checked, and Gur continued with a bet of 5,500, which Clinkscales called. The river brought the J♦ , and Clinkscales checked again. Gur bet 5,000, and Clinkscales made the call.
Gur showed 2♥ 7♣ , while Clinkscales revealed 9♦ 9♠ for the winning hand.
Player | Chips |
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BG Ben Gur | 139,000(46 BB) |
RC Rex Clinkscales | 83,000(28 BB) |