Level 9 (Blinds 400/800/100)
Total Entries: 71
Players Remaining: 31
As easy as it may seem to hold onto a solid chip lead, but doing it wire to wire is just not something that happens often. Michael Rothbard has trended down since the end of Level 8, and he just lost a pot to Samuel Wasserman that makes the bonus accessible by a good number of players. Rothbard would call a 38,000 raise on the turn of a board that read 9♠ Q♥ 5♦ 10♠, and the two would see the 6 on the river. With the pot over 90,000, Rothbard would check to Samuel, who then pushed his remaining chips across his cards (~45,000).
Michael would fold his cards and with that conceding the pot to Wasserman, who chips up to 150,000. Rothbard would be left with 181,000 after the hand, and although he still leads the field, the discrepancy is only a fraction of what it used to be.
