Down to Sixteen on the Last Main Event Dinner Break of the Summer

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15 Jul

For some forty days players have battled on the green felt, playing for the money, glory and bracelets. 64 events have come to an end and ten days ago, the big one, Main Event, went underway. With so many players in the field, it looked almost unreal that it would come to this point. We all knew it would, but still.

This is the last dinner break of World Series of Poker 2014, at least until November. And only 16 players are left to enjoy it. Those 16 still have their hopes of making the final table alive. Those 16 can still capture the first place of ten million dollars. Others are done.

The final day of the Main Event summer started with three tables full of players and, even more so, full of dreams. Couple hours later, those dreams have been crushed for eleven of them. It started with couple fast exits as Sean Dempsey, Brian Roberts and Bryan Devonshire were sent to the rail. Following them out the door were Yorane Kerignard, Iaron Lightbourne and Leif Force.

The dream is over, couldn’t beat 44 with AKs and ended up in 20th. Thanks for all the support this week, it was a fantastic experience Dan Smith;
That left 20 players to compete for the prestigious Main Event bracelet, one of them being Dan Smith who has had a really strong showing this year. However, he failed to make it past 20th after losing a flip for the last of his chips. Following him out the door was Scott Palmer, better known by his online alias ‘urnotindanger2’, and that brought us to 18 players gathered on just two tables. These nine players made $286,900 for their efforts.
Final two eliminations were Scott Mahin in 17th and Andrey Zaichenko in 16th whose deep run may not have brought them a seven-figure payday, but was still good for $347,521. And then they were sixteen.
Martin Jacobson started the day with the chip lead but had some altercations with Dan Sindelar and as chips were going back and forth, it was Sindelar who ended with a better stack heading into the break, with nearly 21.5 million, while Jacobson has taken a step back and is currently fourth in chips with 16.3 million. However, the man to beat is Brazilian Bruno Politano sitting on 22.4 million chips and he will be leading the way when the play resumes. Sitting in third place is Netherland’s own Jorryt van Hoof with 18 million.
The man who made last year’s November Nine, Mark Newhouse, is still in the mix, albeit with the second shortest stack of the bunch. To remind you once again, Newhouse finished in 9th place last year and is looking to best that score here, but with about 7 million in chips, he’s got some work to do. Sitting at the bottom of the chip counts is another Dutch player, Oscar Kemps.
The play has naturally slowed down considerably at this stage, as there are pretty significant pay jumps for hanging on just a little bit longer and everyone wants to become a part of the November Nine bunch. Everybody still in is guaranteed to make at least $441,940. All that being said, before the night is over, we will see seven more players heading for the rail with their dreams of becoming the Number One postponed for at least another year.