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After having Jon VanFleet as the chip leader for the last coupkle of lebvels, Jack Shea has just taken the lead after winning a huge hand against VanFleet.

Both players got all of the chips into the middle with Shea out in front and staying out in front.

Shea:
VanFleet: 8c

The board ran out and all of the sudden, Shea has a commanding lead over VanFleet.

Jamie Sequeira comes in for all of the Playground festivals and is a fun player to have on the table. He fought his way to third place by doing his best to stay out of trouble on the final table and ended up laddering up the pay jumps.

His last hand came when he put the chips in with and was called by Shea who had and it looked good for for Sequeira on the flop, but Shea hit the on the turn and the river was of no help to Sequeira, and that ended his day.

Third place: Jamie Sequeira, $52,300

Play is now heads-up between Jack Shea and chip leader Jon VanFleet.

As Martin Kozlov’s stack was dwindling down, when he picked up he decided that it was the time to go all in. Unfortunatly for him, Jon VanFleet woke up with and he made the call.

VanFleet smashed the flop and the on the turn and on the river were just formalities.

Fourth place: Martin Kozlov, $41,000

The players who have been less active have had pressure on their stacks as the blinds are getting to them and Anthony Ribeiro was the next player who just couldn’t make it to the end.

Ribeiro picked up and was called by Jack Shea holding

Ribeiro seemed to be in good shape until the flop. The on the turn and the on the river were of no help to Ribeiro and he was sent to collect his payout slip while Shea added more to his stack.

Fifth place: Anthony Ribeiro, $32,000

Danny Frteitas was the next casualty of the final table when he got it in with and was called by Martin Kozlov holding

The board ran out and that was the end of the run for Freitas today.

Sixth place: Danny Freitas, $25,000

We took a short break and when we returned, Mike Leah had lost most of his stack. After the hand against VanFleet when he lost to a flopped set and rivered boat, he was severely damaged and the players said that he tried to make a move going all in with A2 and was called by Jack Shea who woke up with AK.

He then shoved and was called by VanFleet holding and he found a double-up on the board but then lost on the next hand when he shoved and found calls by both VanFleet and Shea, but Shea was holding and Leah just couldn’t find a way to hit the board.

Seventh place: Mike Leah, $20,000

With the blinds at 30,000/60,000 action folded to Mike Leah seated in the hijack position who raised it up to 130,000 and found a call from Jon “apestyles” VanFleet on the button.

The flop came and Leah elected to check. VanFleet gave it thought and threw in a bet of 105,000, Leah made the call.

The turn brought the and once again Leah checked. VanFleet responded this time with a bet of 450,000 and again was called by Leah.

On the river the dealer put out the and leah checked. VanFleet ended up reaching for a large stack of chips and he moved them forward. The dealer counted the stack: 1,700,000. Leah made the call.

VanFleet opened for a flopped set and rivered boat, while Leah just shook his head and showed the .

Mark Scacewater was the second smallest stack when the final table had started and the blinds were shrinking his stack until finally he got it in and found a call by Mike Leah.

Scacewater:
Leah:

The board ran out and Scacewater was sent to the tournament desk to collect his payout slip.

Eighth place: Mark Scacewater, $15,000

After losing Kauvsegan Ehamparam in 11th place, the tournament went onto the bubble of the final table. Finally the fatal hand came to be when Sopheak Heang put all of his chips into the middle and was snap called by Mike Leah.

Heang::
Leah:

Heang needed to hit an ace, a flush or maybe trip eights. The flop came and that gave Leah a set of kings and the on the turn and on the river did not change the fate of Heang who headed to the rail.

Leah had a top stack before this hand and after he eliminated Heang, it put him into the lead with 3,962,000 chips.

Here are the chip counts of the final nine players (Note: Jean-Serge Baril was the short stack and just busted in ninth for $12,000)

Ninth place: Jean-Serge Baril. $12,000

Tommy Nguyen was feeling the pressure and put his chips in holding . David Ormsby made the call with .

Nguyen hit a jack on the flop, but Ormsby made a straight on the turn. The on the river didn’t change the situation and Nguyen made his way to the rail, just a little shy of the money.

None the less, as all players know, tournament poker can be cruel and things can change around on the turn of a dime. While writing up this post, Ormsby has also now been sent to the rail although we don’t have the details of how it went down.

Jamie Sequeira opened in the cutoff position from 24,000 to 55,000. Sopheak Heang 3-bet on the button to 135,000. Sequeira thought about it for about 20 seconds and decided to flat call.

The flop was the and Sequeira check-called a bet of 155,000 from Heang.

On the turn the dealer peeled the . Sequeira moved all in. After a brief moment, Heang folded. He then said to Sequeira “the king helped”? Sequeira replied “I had queens, I think I was good?”.  Heang smiled and muttered “I’m not sure that you had queens”.

Poker. Everyone always tells the truth.

As this was being written up, Chanracy Khun and Pierre Paul Paulin were seen exiting in 15th and 14th place.