The following players were eliminated late in level 16 and will each receive $6,743.
2014 World Series of Poker
Matthew Lapossie has been very active these last two levels, almost every time we pass his table he is involved in a big pot with a mound of chips in the middle and betting on every street. In a hand we just caught on the turn Lapossie was in position and had bet 30,000 on a board reading ![]()
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. His opponent called and the river card brought the
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Lapossie’s opponent now led out for 80,000 with less than 40,000 behind. Lapossie gave a puzzled look and moved all in. His opponent quicky and sheepishly threw his hand away.
James Dempsey seemed out of luck and had one foot out of the door a few minutes ago, but now he's got a little more breathing room after catching a lucky break to bust a player and boost his stack to 80,000.
Dempsey committed his stack from the cutoff with what turned out to be ![]()
and the cutoff instantly called with ![]()
. Dempsey slipped further behind on the ![]()
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flop, then was propelled into the lead when he completed his flush on the
turn. The
was the river card and Dempsey received a boost to 80,000 while his opponent got an extended dinner break.
Brandon Steven had been nursing a short stack for quite some time and got his last 17,400 in the middle and Erik Cajelais made the call.
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Steven could not find any help as the board ran out ![]()
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and he headed to the payout desk.
The following players were recently eliminated and will each receive $6,066
Barny Boatman raised all in for his last 38,700 and Andrew Becker made the call from the big blind.
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flop stayed clean for Boatman, but the
turn paired Becker and the
river sealed it and Boatman hit the rail.
Sunny Chattha is up among the leaders thanks to his 269,000 chips. Chattha told us that he won a huge flip against the now busted Joe Kuether (![]()
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) and as a result is well poised for a very deep run in this event.
Dan O'Brien bet enough on the turn to put Govert Metaal all in with the cards reading ![]()
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Metaal looked at the board, shrugged and called.
O’Brien was on a bluff with ![]()
and couldn’t get a fold from Metaal who had ![]()
. The river
saw Metaal double up.