Last year’s third-place finisher Michael Duek headed to payout desk in the penultimate level of Day 5 while pro football Hall of Famer Richard Seymour was another famous face to fall short of making Day 6. The “Dirty Diaper” lover picked up a real hand and dragged in a 200-big blind pot after his aces remained best against Kornuth’s suited ace-king. Nicholas Rigby, who has made the headlines again following another Main Event deep run, won one of the largest pots of the day against Chance Kornuth. Chris Moneymaker jammed into kings while Joe Hachem was stacked by a rivered flush. It was also confirmed that there would be no repeat Main Event winner as the last remaining champions exited in the first half of the day. Koon flopped a set but was removed from the table after his adversary rivered Broadway.īrewer, who has finally experienced a dose of run good this summer with two bracelet wins under his belt, lost a flip with jacks to a tablemate's ace-king.
Koon was all in and at risk with pocket kings and was the favorite against his opponent’s pocket tens. High stakes crushers Jason Koon and Chris Brewer were ousted in the opening level with the former suffering a particularly bad beat. Day 5 of the Main Event began with 441 players, and the eliminations came thick and fast, with some of poker’s biggest stars finding themselves on the wrong side of the rail.
