
After Luke Nguyen busted in third, the final two took a look at the numbers for a chop, and struck a deal. Steve Yagudaev will take home $16,250 for second place, while Preston Patz will earn $20,170 for the win. More impressively, it is Patz’s third Remington victory of the series, and also his largest

Preston Patz had pulled out to a nice lead three handed, and was ramping up the aggression with several all in shoves. Eventually, he shoved from the small blind with [As][4s], and Luke Nguyen called with [Kc][9c]. The hand was all but over after the flop came [10s][4h][4d] to give Patz trip fours, and though

The final three players are taking a break and will be considering a possible deal when they return. In the meantime, we were able to get exact chip counts, and saw that Luke Nguyen and Preston Patz are just one chip apart at the moment. Blinds: 15,000/30,000 Luke Nguyen – 1,310,000Preston Patz – 1,305,000Steve Yagudaev

Sohale Khalili raised nearly all of his chips preflop, and next to act, Luke Nguyen shoved to set him all in. Khalili called with [2d][2c], and was happy to see he was flipping, as Nguyen showed [Ad][Kc]. The flip didn’t last long though, as the flop came [Ah][6c][4s]. Khalili needed a deuce or running striaght

Preston Patz raised it up on the button, and after Luke Nguyen shoved over the top in the big blind, Patz called with [As][Kd]. He was dominating the [Ad][Qh] shown by Nguyen, and the king kicker would play after a runout of [8s][7c][6d][2c][Ah]. With that double, Patz and Nguyen are basically even at the top

Play has slowed down quite a bit in our Six-Max final table, as the average stack is over 24 big blinds at the moment. Commerce Team Poker Pro Luke Nguyen (pictured above) has extended his lead in that period, and now holds nearly half the chips in play. Luke Nguyen – 1,350,000Steve Yagudaev – 525,000Preston

Andrew Tree raised to 40,000 preflop, and Sohale Khalili (pictured above) three bet shoved for 300,000 and change. Tree quickly called with [Ah][Kd], and Khalili showed he was dominated with [Ac][Qd]. That all changed though after the flop came [Qc][Js][3h], giving Khalili the lead now. Tree could still catch a king or a ten to
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