Amit Makhija had already lost full house over full house after flopping fives full on a flop. He lost to an opponent's , but somehow saved chips. Then he lost this next hand.
Oleksii Kovalchuk raised to 500 and Daniel Cates made the call before action folded to Max Lykov on the button. He three-bet to 2,300 and then Makhija flatted out of the small blind after thinking for a minute. Action folded back over to Cates and he called. Lykov also called.
The flop came down and everyone checked to see the land on the turn. Makhija bet 4,000 and Cates made the call. Lykov folded.
The river was the and Makhija check-called a bet of 5,000 from Cates. Cates turned over the for a turned set of nines and won the pot.
Eui Woong Kim fired 2,300 on the flop after Justin Bonomo and Anton Ionel checked to him. Bonomo called and then Ionel check-raised all in for 8,600. Kim took some time and then reraised to 13,800. Bonomo folded pocket queens face up and left Kim to try and do the dirty work.
Kim held the for top pair, top kicker and Bonomo was actually ahead of him, but had folded his queens. Ionel held the for the best hand.
The turn was he and river the to give Ionel the double up. Had Bonomo stayed in, Kim would have won by hitting trip jacks on the river.
The clock now reads that 81 players are in the field and 80 remain. The one elimination was Govert Metaal. Daniel Negreanu was also eliminated, but has re-entered and is back in action.
Dan Shak has been eliminated by Tommy Vedes. Vedes had aces and Shak kings. According to Vedes, the money went in on the river after a bunch of betting and raising on every street.
Dan Shak and Govert Metaal have both re-entered and are back in the field. Shak actually drew the same seat and is seated right next to Tommy Vedes once again.
Grayson Ramage just had a boat-over-boat confrontation go his way to bust Tony Gregg. We didn't see when the money went in, but the board was with Ramage holding and Gregg .
Team PokerStars Pro Viktor Blom has been eliminated, but said to the table that he will most likely be re-entering. Blom was all in on the with the against Kevin MacPhee's . The turn was the and river the to send Blom to the rail.