Tahtouh Eliminates Lewis
Flight I of October Pokerfest is approaching the stone money bubble.
On blinds of 4,000/8,000/8,000, Simon Tahtouh opened to 16,000 from the hijack. Michael Lewis moved all-in from the small blind for roughly 53,000 and Tahtouh called.
Lewis: A♠3♠ (all-in)
Tahtouh: 8♣8♦
Board: Q♣J♣2♥J♠7♠
Lewis went unimproved on the runout and was eliminated in 25th place.
Tahtouh: 385,000
20 players will finish in the money and there will be one pay jump before the final 13 players advance to Sunday's Day Two Restart.
Updated Chip Counts (through Flight H)
Prize pool: $115,040
Average stack: 358,667
Lowest blind level: 3,000/6,000/6,000 14:53
| Name | Chips | Big Blinds |
| Zanvyl Morrow | 870,000 | 145 |
| Lawrence Wayne | 741,000 | 124 |
| Phu Vo | 685,000 | 114 |
| Curtis Cavazos | 646,000 | 108 |
| Erin Parisien | 639,000 | 107 |
| Mark Hennessy | 620,000 | 103 |
| Ravee Sundara | 571,000 | 95 |
| Brian Joseph Gaspard | 522,000 | 87 |
| Matt Bandini | 514,000 | 86 |
| Rabih Kassab | 507,000 | 85 |
| William Wyler | 505,000 | 84 |
| Rahil Gaulani | 504,000 | 84 |
| David Shaw | 497,000 | 83 |
| Derek Normand | 496,000 | 83 |
| David Medlin | 482,000 | 80 |
| Sara Gann | 480,000 | 80 |
| Pat Amesur | 469,000 | 78 |
| Jeff Nowling | 466,000 | 78 |
| Christian Aguilar | 463,000 | 77 |
| Rahul Batra | 462,000 | 77 |
| Andre Maurice Owens | 455,000 | 76 |
| Kris Burchfield | 453,000 | 76 |
| Dara Taherpour | 447,000 | 75 |
| Ethan Doan | 439,000 | 73 |
| Mark White | 405,000 | 68 |
| Ming Liang | 364,000 | 61 |
| Sean Earley | 353,000 | 59 |
| Burgess Sparacino | 350,000 | 58 |
| William Bradshaw | 326,000 | 54 |
| James Martin | 317,000 | 53 |
| Jonathan Park | 292,000 | 49 |
| Naafay Nadim | 275,000 | 46 |
| Juan Campbell | 271,000 | 45 |
| Stephen Johnston | 254,000 | 42 |
| Ben Peleg | 250,000 | 42 |
| Flavio Palalon | 245,000 | 41 |
| Brandon Lloyd | 243,000 | 41 |
| Sang Ngo | 241,000 | 40 |
| Hongying Shen | 238,000 | 40 |
| David Hayes | 238,000 | 40 |
| Charles Bera | 237,000 | 40 |
| John Hinrichs | 230,000 | 38 |
| Floyd Fernandes | 217,000 | 36 |
| Eunice Choung | 208,000 | 35 |
| Zvi Eisenberg | 190,000 | 32 |
| Vlad Shovkovyi | 183,000 | 31 |
| Vivek Shingala | 182,000 | 30 |
| Samuel Adamo | 176,000 | 29 |
| David Graff | 171,000 | 29 |
| Samuel Beard | 167,000 | 28 |
| Jason Faircloth | 165,000 | 28 |
| Dedric Williams | 141,000 | 24 |
| Vanessa Grossman | 132,000 | 22 |
| Alex Robin | 131,000 | 22 |
| Steve Mrozinski | 120,000 | 20 |
| Sumit Verma | 114,000 | 19 |
| Lorraine Widener | 85,000 | 14 |
Upcoming Flights
| Flight | Day | Start | Late Reg. | Blind Lvls. |
| J | Sat. Oct. 18th | 5:00 AM | 8:50 PM | 25-min |
| K - Turbo | Sat. Oct. 18th | 9:00 PM | 11:15 PM | 15-min |
| L | Sun. Oct. 19th | 9:00 AM | 11:15 AM | |
| DAY TWO | Sun. Oct. 19th | 2:30 PM | - |