Luke Schwartz shoved all in with for 320,000, or 16 big blinds. JC Tran woke up with two black queens in the big blind and quickly called.
Schwartz cheered for his hand to hit and then smacked the flop when it came . He slapped his hands together and went from feeling bad to feeling on top of the world.
"It has to be red to lose, right? It has to be red," said Schwartz, waiting for the turn card. And then, the dealer dealt the on the turn and all of Schwartz's hopes were dashed. He was drawing dead as the river came the .
Tran eliminated Schwartz on the hand, who took home four points and $8,000.
Phil Laak raised the button with the and then Vanessa Rousso moved all in for 220,000 from the big blind holding the . Laak made the call.
The board ran out and Laak continued to run really well, hitting one of his overcards and eliminating Rousso in fourth place. She earned six points and $12,000 for her finish.
Yevgeniy Timoshenko knows he has hung on long enough to lock up some good points even despite being on a short stack for a while. He just moved all in for 185,000 holding the and picked up the blinds.
On the next hand, Timoshenko shoved agian for 215,000 with the . Phil Laak called this time with the .
The flop came down and not much was there for Timoshenko. The turn card added the to the felt nd gave Timoshenko some more outs with an open-ended straight draw.
The river completed the draw when the fell and he doubled up to nearly 450,000 chips.