Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 29
Blinds: 40,000-80,000 w/10,000 ante
Total Entrants: 731
Players Remaining: 7
Chip Average: 2,090,000

Steve Foutty

In the most bizarre pot yet of the Event 107 final table, Steve Foutty was eliminated in a three-way all-in and Dorian Rios tripled up with Qiao Chi losing a small portion of his stack.

Foutty shoved for 835,000 in the cutoff and Rios called all-in with 560,000 on the button. Chi called in the big blind to put both players at risk with 5♣5♦ and was behind the 7♣7♠ of Rios but ahead of Foutty’s K♥10♥.

The A♠7♦3♠ flop gave Rios a set and Chi hit his own set on the 5♠ turn. Foutty was drawing dead and Chi missed his one-outer on the river and Rios survived.

Rios is playing 1,570,000 and Chi is holding down to 6,750,000, good for almost half of the chips in play. All players at the final table are below 20 big blinds with the exception of Chi.

Event 111: $200 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo $9,000 Guarantee 

Event: $200 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo
Guarantee: $9,000
Entries: 54
Prize Pool: $9,000
Places Paid: 6
1st Place: $3,375

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 28
Blinds: 30,000-60,000 w/10,000 ante
Total Entrants: 731
Players Remaining: 8
Chip Average: 1,830,000

Viktor Lavi

Viktor Lavi started the final table among the short stacks and is the second player to be ousted with Qiao Chi picking up his second bounty.

Lavi opened to 325,000 from the hijack, leaving himself with about 275,000 behind. Chi raised all-in from the small blind and Lavi called off with A♠5♠. Lavi was ahead with 6♣6♥ going to the flop.

Chi picked up a flush draw on the K♠10♦2♠ flop and turned the 10♠. Still live to hit a six or ten to stay alive, the K♥ river was it for Lavi.

Lavi earns $6,750 and Chi is playing 5,200,000, good for over one-third of the chips in play.

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 27
Blinds: 25,000-50,000 w/5,000 ante
Total Entrants: 731
Players Remaining: 9
Chip Average: 1,625,000

Nick Yunis

Qiao Chi’s chip lead has ballooned since the start of the start of the Event 107 final table and his elimination of Nick Yunis has him far out of the pack.

Yunis was all-in for about 900,000 with A♣K♦ and was in a race against the Q♦Q♥ of Chi. The 10♥7♠3♦4♦10♦ board was not enough to salvage Yunis’s tournament life and he is the first player to exit.

Chi is up to 4,600,000 with the blinds set to go up momentarily.

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 27
Blinds: 25,000-50,000 w/5,000 ante
Total Entrants: 731
Players Remaining: 10

1. Steve Foutty – 1,690,000
2. Viktor Lavi – 545,000
3. Dorian Rios – 1,325,000
4. Xiu-Xian Deng – 950,000
5. Qiao Chi – 3,200,000
6. Alexander Fu – 1,200,000
7. Adrian Armendariz – 1,920,000
8. Nick Yunis – 1,080,000
9. Robert Vance – 1,150,000
10. Paul Ahi – 1,000,000

Event 110: $300 No-Limit Hold’em Rebuy $30,000 Guarantee 

Event: $300 No-Limit Hold’em Rebuy
Guarantee: $30,000
Entries: 106
Rebuys: 225
Prize Pool: $45,625
Places Paid: 12
1st Place: $13,688

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 6
Blinds: 200/400 w/ 50 ante
Day 1C Entries: 313
Total Entrants: 654

The field continues to grow in Event 107 and on the second break of Day 1C, there are over 650 entrants. Registration is open for two more hours (6:50 pm) and the field is likely to hit 700 before then. All players will start with 20,000 chips regardless of when they enter and any player who enters on the other side of the break has 40 big blinds to work with. Once the final prize pool is calculated, it will be posted on the Venetian Poker Room blog as the field winds toward the end of Level 14 finish line.

Event 107: $600 No-Limit Hold’em SuperStack $250,000 Guarantee 

Level 6
Blinds: 200/400 w/ 50 ante
Day 1C Entries: 294
Total Entrants: 635

There have been some amazing player accomplishments achieved during DSE III. From overall cashes to a streak of final tables, two players find themselves in the Day 1C field with a chance to add one more strong result.

Will Givens turned in a great week in late-May when he reached consecutive final tables in multi-day SuperStack events. Those two scores earned Givens a piece of DSE III as he is one of the only players in DSE history to do that. Givens nearly reached the final table of the Event #99: $1,100 $1,500,000 guaranteed, but bowed out in 14th place, earning $20,000 for his efforts. As this is the last SuperStack event on the DSE III schedule, Givens needs to hit big in order to score the trifecta. 

Mark Manesh has made six trips to the payout desk this series and a seventh would tie him with fellow Floridian Matt Yorra for the most during the DSE III series. Manesh has done most of his damage in the $1,100 Turbo events with three cashes there but also has two scores in the $1,100 Bounty tournaments. A $600 SuperStack cash would be a first for Manesh this series and mark his fourth payout in a multi-day event.