Level: 17
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
2024 Pennsylvania State Poker Championship
$2,200 PSPC Event #3
Day: 1b
Event Info
Final Results
Event Info
Level Info
Players Info - Day 1b
2024 Pennsylvania State Poker Championship
Buy-in
$2,200
Prize Pool
$500,000
Entries
243
Level
29
Blinds
60,000 / 120,000
Ante
120,000
Entries
25
Players Left
4
Level 16
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Joseph Molitor opened the action with a raise to 12,000 from the button. Thomas Laviano called in the big blind.
The flop came 9?8?8? and Laviano check-called a bet of 7,000.
Both players checked after the 10? on the turn, and 5? on the river.
Laviano tabled J?9? for two pair nines and eights to take the pot, as Molitor mucked.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
276,000
-39,000
|
-39,000 |
|
131,500
-8,500
|
-8,500 |
Level 16
: Blinds 3,000/6,000, 6,000 ante
Jonathan Stoeber opened to 12,000 from the cutoff and Angel Lopez defended his big blind.
Both players checked the 4?10?3? flop before Stoeber fired 11,000 on the 2? turn. Lopez made the call.
Action went check-check on the Q? river and Lopez took down the pot with Q?10?.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
225,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
185,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
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Level: 16
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Level 15
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
The final five players are headed to a 15-minute break. Action will resume in Level 16 with blinds at 3,000/6,000 and a 6,000 big blind ante.
Level 15
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Thomas Laviano opened the action with a raise to 12,000 from the cutoff. Alex Kim on the button, and the big blind Joseph Molitor made the call.
The flop came 8?8?5? and Molitor and Laviano checked to Kim, who bet 15,000. Molitor called, before Laviano raised to 55,000. Kim debated his decision before finding a fold, and Molitor quickly folded as well to give the pot to Laviano.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
325,000
-55,000
|
-55,000 |
|
||
|
|
315,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
|
140,000
-120,000
|
-120,000 |
Level 15
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
380,000
-30,000
|
-30,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
265,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
|
260,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
|
200,000
25,000
|
25,000 |
|
|
175,000
-5,000
|
-5,000 |
|
|
||
Level 15
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Players have reached the money bubble. There are five players remaining, and with 25 entrants, only four will make the money and advance to Day 2.
Level 15
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Action was picked up with Robert Klein all in for 120,000, and Joseph Molitor putting him at risk.
Robert Klein: A?9? 
Joseph Molitor: A?Q?
Klein was dominated by the ace-queen of Molitor, and after the board ran out 8?Q?8?5?6? Molitor improved to a pair of queens to eliminate Klein.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
270,000
157,500
|
157,500 |
|
Busted |
Level 15
: Blinds 2,500/5,000, 5,000 ante
Alex Kim limped in from the small blind before Angel Lopez raised to 12,000 from the big blind. Kim made the call.
Lopez continued for 8,000 on a 2?5?4? flop before Kim check-raised to 28,000. Lopez made the call.
The turn A? hit the felt and Kim fired 40,000 into the middle before Lopez tossed his cards into the muck and the pot was pushed in Kim's direction to get him back over the 400,000-chip mark.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
410,000
95,000
|
95,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
180,000
-35,000
|
-35,000 |
|
|
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