$5,300 SHRPO Championship
$3,000,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 10: 1,000/2,000 with a 2,000 ante
Day 1B Players Remaining: 175 of 456
After a flop of , the big blind checked, and Steve Buckner bet 10,000 from middle position. Harsheel Kothari called from the cutoff, and the big blind check-raised all in for 51,500.
Buckner tanked for a long time before he folded, and Kothari called with . The big blind turned over for a pair of nines with a gutshot straight draw, and needed to improve to stay alive.
Buckner insisted that he folded the other two jacks.
The turn card was the , the river card paired the board with the , and Kothari won the pot with his pocket jacks to eliminate the big blind from the tournament.
Harsheel Kothari – 195,000 (98 bb)
With about 175 players remaining from a Day 1B field of 456, the average chip stack is about 130,000 (65 big blinds).
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