$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  5 of 359

After a series of big raises, Zachary Wells and Tom McDonald got all their chips in the middle with similar stacks.

Wells:
McDonald:

Wells was dominated by the bigger pair and it got much worse when McDonald flopped a set of jacks on the board. The turn and river finished the board and the stacks were counted down.

McDonald was the at-risk player for 1,725,000 and Wells was left with only 75K. He found a small triple on the next hand but Paul Snead finished the job one hand later.

Tom McDonald – 3,600,000 (36 bb)
Zachary Wells – Eliminated in 6th Place ($22,410)

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 27:  50,000/100,000 with a 100,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 359

Seat 2: Zachary Wells – 1,600,000 (16 bb)
Seat 3: Billy Papadopoulos – 3,000,000 (30 bb)
Seat 4: Paul Snead – 3,350,000 (34 bb)
Seat 5: John Gordon – 1,175,000 (12 bb)
Seat 6: Tom McDonald – 2,225,000 (22 bb)
Seat 7: Austin Srur – 2,125,000 (21 bb)

1st: $109,110 + TPC Trophy
2nd: $72,610
3rd: $53,140
4th: $39,360
5th: $29,520
6th: $22,410

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 26:  40,000/80,000 with a 80,000 ante
Players Remaining:  6 of 359

Tom McDonald opened to 200,000 from under the gun and Carlos Loving min-clicked to 320,000 from middle position with 10K behind. It folded back to McDonald, he put Loving all in, and he called at risk.

McDonald:
Loving:

Loving had two suited live cards for a small double but the sent him out in seventh place.

Tom McDonald – 1,500,000 (19 bb)
Carlos Loving – Eliminated in 7th Place ($17,200)

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 359

Zachary Wells opened to 120,000 from the button and Paul Snead called in the big blind. The flop came , Snead checked, Wells bet 300,000 and Snead called.

The turn was , Snead checked, and Wells announced all in. Snead had 1,540,000 left, thought for a few minutes, and called the bet while calling his wife from the rail for good luck.

Snead:
Wells:

Wells was ahead with two pair queens and eights, and Snead needed help to double up. The river paired the board, and Snead counterfeited Wells’s two pair and made aces up for a huge double.

Paul Snead – 4,010,000 (67 bb)
Zachary Wells – 2,000,000 (33 bb)

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 24:  30,000/60,000 with a 60,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 359

Seat 1: Carlos Loving – 1,910,000 (32 bb)
Seat 2: Zachary Wells – 2,500,000 (42 bb)
Seat 3: Billy Papadopoulos – 4,015,000 (67 bb)
Seat 4: Paul Snead – 1,225,000 (20 bb)
Seat 5: John Gordon – 2,425,000 (40 bb)
Seat 6: Tom McDonald – 825,000 (14 bb)
Seat 7: Austin Srur – 1,405,000 (23 bb)

1st: $109,110 + TPC Trophy
2nd: $72,610
3rd: $53,140
4th: $39,360
5th: $29,520
6th: $22,410
7th: $17,220

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 359

Paul Snead opened to 110,000 from under the gun and picked up calls from Zachary Wells in the small blind and Billy Papadopoulos in the big. The flop was , Wells and Papadopoulos checked, and Snead continued for 100,000.

Wells called, Papadopoulos folded, and the turn was . Both players checked, the river was , and Wells bet 100,000. Snead raised to 450,000 and Wells took a few minutes to think before he called.

Snead turned over for trip jacks with king-queen kickers but Wells showed pocket eights for a full house jacks full of eights to take the pot.

Zachary Wells – 2,920,000 (73 bb)
Paul Snead – 1,350,000 (34 bb)

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 359

Carlos Loving opened to 100,000 and Billy Papadopoulos three-bet to 300,000 from the cutoff. James McKinnon four-bet shipped for 1,325,000 from the big blind, Loving folded, and Papadopoulos called.

Papadopoulos:
McKinnon:

Off to the races and McKinnon needed to improve to double up. The dealer spread the board, no help for McKinnon, and he was eliminated in eighth place.

Billy Papadopoulos – 4,275,000 (10bb)
James McKinnon – Eliminated in 8th Place ($13,400)

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  8 of 359

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 359

Seat 1: Carlos Loving – 2,300,000 (58 bb)
Seat 2: Zachary Wells – 2,000,000 (50 bb)
Seat 3: Billy Papadopoulos – 2,900,000 (73 bb)
Seat 4: Paul Snead – 1,800,000 (45 bb)
Seat 5: John Gordon – 1,900,000 (48 bb)
Seat 6: Korey Taylor – 75,000 (2 bb)
Seat 7: James McKinnon – 1,175,000 (29 bb)
Seat 8: Tom McDonald – 1,000,000 (25 bb)
Seat 9: Austin Srur – 1,400,000 (35 bb)

1st: $109,110 + TPC Trophy
2nd: $72,610
3rd: $53,140
4th: $39,360
5th: $29,520
6th: $22,410
7th: $17,220
8th: $13,400
9th: $10,560
10th: Alexander Orlov – $10,560
11th: Bobby Kennedy – $8,540
12th: Yan Jiang – $8,540
13th: Josias Santos – $7,020
14th: Aaron Thivyanathan – $7,020
15th: William Criego – $5,870
16th: Eric Piderit – $5,870

$1,700 TPC Championship (Re-Entry)
$300,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 23:  20,000/40,000 with a 40,000 ante
Players Remaining:  9 of 359

Alexander Orlov open-shipped for 395,000 from early position, it folded to Paul Snead in the big blind, and he called.

Snead:
Orlov:

Orlov’s ace was dominated and he found no love on the board and Snead’s kicker played to set the final table.

Paul Snead – 1,790,000 (45 bb)
Alexander Orlov – Eliminated in 10th Place ($10,560)