Preflop Konstantin Tolokno opened to 12,500 with Dong-bin Han flat-calling with position from the button. Lars Pettersson then shipped his 95,000 chip stack into the middle and Tolokno got out of the way.
After going into to the tank and asking for a count, Han made the call and rolled over . Pettersson was looking good with .
The [4s} flop and turn were all clear, but Han got exactly what he was looking for on the river.
"Yes! Seven!" said Han, as most of his table groaned in disgust. Pettersson exits in 32nd place.
It was a blind-on-blind battle between small blind David Hilton and big blind Terry Fan. Hilton led out for 19,000 on a board of , with Fan calling. Both players checked the turn. On the river , Hilton fired another shell for 20,500. When Fan folded, Hilton showed an airball, .
It's "game over" for Danny Stiegler. He opened from early position fro 15,000, then called all in after Alexandr Tikholiz re-raised him all in. They were racing, with Tikholiz tabling the two overcards, , and Stiegler showing the pocket pair . Tikholiz flopped two pair and never looked back.
We caught up with Joe Ker and Jojo Teach on a flop of . Tech checked and then called a bet of 17,000 from Ker. Both players checked the turn and the river. Tech opened first, showing .
Mike Kim played most of this tournament short-stacked, grinding, grinding and grinding some more. Finally he gets dealt pocket aces -- and of course they get cracked. Wei Sha's pocket eights overtook Kim's aces on the turn, , giving Sha his second double-up in short order. That beatdown left Kim with 4,500 chips, not even one big blind. He was all in on the next hand with and lost to Joe Ker's .
Well, it looks like Ira Blumenthal might get to make his son's soccer game after all. Blumenthal snap-called all in for 80,000 from the big blind after Joe Ker (seriously) opened for 13,000 and James Kim moved all in for about 130,000. Ker agonized over the decision before finally open-folding pocket tens. It was a good fold against Blumenthal's and Kim's . Kim flopped an ace, , to send Blumenthal to the rail in 38th place.