Event 17: 1st Place – DJ MacKinnon ($3,711)

Event 17 Level 17 (4,000/8,000/1,000) Total Entries: 51 Players Remaining: 1 Chip Average: 2,040,000 Throughout his career, DJ MacKinnon has recorded 137 rated tournament scores totaling just under $630,000 in combined earnings. Those results range from big buy-in World Poker Tour and World Series of Poker events to smaller buy-in regionally based events. Sticking to …

Event 17: Four-Way Chop, MacKinnon Takes Title

Event 17 Level 17 (4,000/8,000/1,000) Total Entries: 51 Players Remaining: 4 Chip Average: 510,000 After the elimination of Eric Siegel in 5th place, the final four players were all relatively well stacked and Rich DeVivo brought up the idea of an even chop. Rabbi Schneur Gershowitz was in favor of a quick and easy deal …

Event 17: 5th & 6th Place – Eric Siegel & John Malczan

Event 17 Level 17 (4,000/8,000/1,000) Total Entries: 51 Players Remaining: 4 Chip Average: 510,000 After a slight lull in play, two eliminations occurred on back to back hands to quickly bring this Event 17 field down to the final four. The first saw John Malczan three-bet shove from the button for 120,000 after Moe Farah …

Event 17: Farah Finally Over Average

Event 17 Level 17 (4,000/8,000/1,000) Total Entries: 51 Players Remaining: 6 Chip Average: 340,000 Moe Farah came into this Event 17 final table as the low man on the totem pole and while he stayed buried at the bottom of the leaderboard through the first full level of play, he's now up and over the …

Event 17: 7th Place – Tim Polcari ($989)

Event 17 Level 16 (3,000/6,000/1,000) Total Entries: 51 Players Remaining: 6 Chip Average: 340,000 After spending close to an hour on the final table bubble, we have seen four players quickly hit the rail and Tim Polcari was the most recent. Polcari came back as one of the final table short stacks and he was …

Event 17: 8th Place – Renata Colache ($792)

Event 17 Level 16 (3,000/6,000/1,000) Total Entries: 51 Players Remaining: 7 Chip Average: 291,000 Renata Colache came into this final table as one of the shorter stacks but she was making her second straight Poker Night Classic final table run. This past weekend, she finished 8th in Event 10 and she did the same this …

Event 17: 9th Place – Anton Sonova ($594)

Event 17 Level 16 (3,000/6,000/1,000) Total Entries: 51 Players Remaining: 8 Chip Average: 255,000 In the first hand back from break, another player hit the rail as Anton Sonova and DJ MacKinnon got involved in a sizable pot in a late position encounter. That action was picked up with Sonova opening to 12,000 from the …

Event 17: Down To FT, DeVivo Immediately Bursts Bubble

Event 17 Level 16 (3,000/6,000/1,000) Total Entries: 51 Players Remaining: 9 Chip Average: 226,000 After Rabbi Schneur Gershowitz sent Tony Tonzelli to the rail in 11th place, this Event 17 field redrew for their seats at the final table. That also meant that this remaining field was on the immediate bubble, as nine of the …

Event 17: Still On The Final Table Bubble

Event 17 Level 15 (2,500/5,000/500) Total Entries: 51 Players Remaining: 11 This Event 17 field quickly went from 14 to 11 players after a flurry of eliminations ended with Matt Glantz hitting the rail and after an hour of play on the final table bubble, this field is still stuck at eleven. We're now midway …

Event 17: On The Final Table Bubble

Event 17 Level 14 (2,000/4,000/500) Total Entries: 51 Players Remaining: 11 After two players quickly hit the rail at the start of Level 13, the rest of the period played out with very few big pots playing out. Three players have quickly hit the rail over the first half of Level 14. Brooks Bartell's short …