Hand #11: Money Bubble Bursts! Ryan Riess Eliminated by Jared Hemingway

Photo:  WPT Champions Club Member Ryan Riess

In Hand #11 of hand-for-hand play on the Money Bubble, Ryan Riess starts the hand with 16,000, and is forced all in for the 10,000 ante and another 6,000 in the big blind.

Nick Yunis raises under the gun to 20,000, and Dan Sepiol uses a Time Chip to think for a while before he calls from the cutoff, and Jared Hemingway calls from the small blind.

There is 34,000 in the main pot (which Riess qualifies for), and another 42,000 in the side pot between the other three players. Any further betting will go into the side pot.

The flop comes , Hemingway checks, and Yunis bets 25,000. Sepiol folds, and Hemingway calls.

The turn card is the , and both players check.

The river card is the , and Hemingway bets 125,000, which represents most of Yunis’s stack of 158,000. Yunis folds, and Hemingway takes the side pot.

For the main pot, Riess shows for jack high, and Hemingway turns over to win the pot with trip nines. Riess is eliminated on the Money Bubble.

Jared Hemingway  –  1,692,000  (169 bb)
Nick Yunis  –  158,000  (16 bb)
Ryan Riess  –  Eliminated on the Money Bubble

The remaining 58 players are in the money, guaranteed at least $6,400 each.