With 25,000 already in the pot and the board showing , Hiroshi Shimamura passed the first action to Stephen Lindeblad who moved all in for a total of 12,500. Shimamura made the call and tabled for an open-ended straight draw. Lindeblad produced for top two pair.
A fateful fell on the river, eliminating Lindeblad from the tournament and increasing Shimamura's chip stack to 130,000.
With the board reading A-K-T-3-9 John Tabatabai and Joshua Weiss got their money into the middle with Tabatabai's too good for the set of nines of Weiss.
After a roller coaster start to the day, John Tabatabai is back up to 48,000 chips.
Three-way all in. Kenny Tran raised 2,400 from UTG. Mike Matusow moved all in from the cutoff for 24,000. Stephen Cesaro moved all in for 20,000 from the button. Tran tanked then called.
Tran:
Cesaro:
Matusow:
The flop was and Matusow picked up a nut flush draw. The turn was the . Kenny Tran blurted out, "Queen of spades!"
The dealer burned, then dealt the river card, and the spiked. Matusow won the pot. He busted Stephen Cesaro and doubled through Kenny Tran. Matusow increased his stack to 75,000. Tran slipped to 35,000.
The money went in on the turn, with Chadwick holding and Peter Spann showing on a board. The river was the and Chadwick dragged the pot, eliminating Spann and increasing his stack to well over 60,000.
All the money went in pre-flop, Jonny Vincent holding , and Jeff Lisandro the . Lisandro caught an ace on the flop, Vincent's hand could not improve, and he headed to the rail.
Lisandro increased his stack to 160,000 on the hand.