“Weird day,” wrote BuzzDraft‘s Bryan PrimordialAAPellegrino (pictured) on Twitter. “Ran well in some [all-in] spots, but just really wish that tourney was a little deeper, made the 5 BB call (4 more) with J-9o, took 2nd.” Pellegrino’s story detailed his exit from Event #5 of the ongoing World Series of Poker (WSOP), a $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em tournament. Pellegrino took second as members of the PocketFives community held the top three spots.

Pellegrino was the top dog entering the final table and had a stack of 790,000, well ahead of the second place stack of Jonathan FatalErrorAguiar, who had 552,000. However, the BuzzDraftrep quickly doubled up John johne147 Eames after coming up short in a race to fall to 600,000.

Eames promptly doubled up two high-profile poker pros at the final table of Event #5, PokerStarsfront man Daniel Negreanu and Tommy Vedes, who finished 19th in the 2009 Main Event. Eames ultimately hit the deck in eighth place for $18,000 after his A-6 could not draw out on the pocket aces of Nick Stacked121 Jivkov. Eames was just 6% to win from the onset.

Fifteen short minutes later, Brant OURounder Hale went busto after 4betting all-in before the flop with J-5 against Vedes’ A-10. Hale picked up a few outs when the flop came 6-4-2, but a running A-8 sealed the deal and trimmed the table to six. The Oklahoma native picked up $24,000 for his seventh place finish.

Jivkov sent Negreanu (pictured) into the Las Vegas night in fifth place after drawing out on A-Q with A-J. The WSOP live coverage on PokerNews relayed Negreanu’s reaction to the flop, which gave his opponent an open-ender: “When the flop came down 10-Q-9, Negreanu let out a mini yell of celebration until he realized that Jivkov had picked up an open-ended straight draw. ‘No king or eight or else we’re dead’ he yelled to his rail.” Jivkov found a cowboy on the river to assume the chip lead and deny Negreanu his fifth bracelet.

After chipping up even further, Jivkov cast off Vedes. The latter moved all-in on a flop of J-10-4 with J-6 and received a call from Jivkov, who showed 10-9. The turn was a five, leaving Jivkov rooting for a nine or 10 on the river. The dealer put out the nine of spades as the final card, pushing Jivkov to over two million in chips and ousting Vedes in fourth.

Aguiar then committed his stack with A-Q before the flop and found himself in a race against Jivkov’s pocket nines. Jivkov(pictured) hit a set on the turn and despite an ace on the river, Aguiar was eliminated in third place for $76,000. Jivkov held a 3:1 chip lead over Pellegrino entering heads-up play.

Pellegrino managed to double up twice through Jivkov to make it interesting. One of our favorite comments about the tournament came in a comment re-Tweeted by Pellegrino: “Sweet Jesus @PrimordialAA is running like Secretariat heads-up. Every time @NickJivkov bleeds him down to 5 BB, he spikes miracle river to 2x.”

On the final hand, Pellegrino 3bet all-in with J-9 and ran smack into Jivkov’s 10-10. Pellegrino failed to catch up and Jivkov took down his first bracelet in his first Las Vegas WSOP cash. Here’s a look at how the final table finished up:

1. Nick Stacked121Jivkov – $189,818
2. Bryan PrimordialAAPellegrino – $117,199
3. Jonathan FatalErrorAguiar – $76,189
4. Tommy Vedes – $55,960
5. Daniel Negreanu – $41,683
6. Mike Allis – $31,452
7. Brant OURounderHale – $24,007
8. John johne147Eames – $18,529
9. Keanu Tabali – $14,449

To say that Jivkov, a WSOP Circuit gold ring winner, was excited to capture his first bracelet would be an understatement. He took to Twitter to share, “Wow, my phone is off the hook! TYTYTY so much to all of the friends who are sending me much love! Take home bracelet #1 for #TeamRunGoot.”

Generating some buzz in the PocketFives forumswas the finale of Event #6, $5,000 No Limit Hold’em Mix-Max. We’ll let a PocketFives poster explain the tournament’s structure down the stretch: “Six-handed tournament down to 32 players, then becomes a [head-to-head] bracket. The bracket is seeded by having the largest stack face off against the smallest stack, the second largest stack against the second shortest stack, and so on.”

Members of the online poker community still standing in Event #6 include former November Niner Joseph subiimeCheong (pictured), Brock t sopranoParker, and France’s Hugo HHHUGO Lemaire. The restart takes place at 1:00pm PT on Saturday and a first place prize of nearly a half-million dollars is up for grabs.

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