From the hijack seat, Shawn Buchanan raised to 9,000. Tobias Reinkemeier made the call from the cutoff and action folded over to Mike "Timex" McDonald in the small blind. He reraised to 35,000. Play moved back over to Buchanan and he four-bet, making it 83,000 to go. Reinkemeier folded and McDonald moved all in for 196,500. Buchanan called.
The two were off to the races as Buchanan's was up against the for McDonald.
The board ran through and McDonald was able to double up with trip kings. He's now back to around 400,000 while Buchanan was knocked to 285,000.
We picked up the action on the turn in a heads-up pot as the board read , and there was close to 50,000 in the pot. James Obst was first to act, and he led out with 36,000. Andrew Robl took his time considering before making the call, and things were getting serious as the landed on the river.
Obst picked up more chips and made a final bet of 95,000, drawing a long gaze from Robl. He looked pretty pained as he tanked over the decision, and it would be at least three or four minutes before he uncapped his cards and returned them to the muck.
"I'll give you $100 to see your hand," Robl tried. Obst smirked and shook his head, but Robl reached back and pulled out his wallet. "Two hundred." Still a no, so he tried one last time. "Three hundred bucks?" Obst wasn't having it, sending his cards back to the dealer face-down as he chips his way up over 600,000.
In early position Daniel Cates opened to 10,000 (for the second pot in a row), and he found calls from David Benyamine (button) and Caio Pimenta (big blind) to go three-handed to the flop.
It came out , and Pimenta checked. Cates continued out with a bet of 20,000, and Benyamine quickly called. Pimenta, however, studied the board for a minute or so before announcing a raise. He made it 65,000 total, and Cates and Benyamine folded in turn, the latter looking a bit frustrated in the process.
Pimenta is the lone Brazilian playing in this Super High Roller, and he's thus far representing his continent rather well. That pot puts him up over the half-million-chip mark with about 530,000.
Andrew Lichtenberger bet 25,000 on the flop of . Bill Chen, who is a Friend of PokerStars, raised to 50,000. Lichtenberger tanked and then reraised to 200,000. Chen moved all in and Lichtenberger called off his last few thousand chips. Lichtenberger was he player at risk, but held the best hand at the time the money went in. He had the for a straight and was up against the for Chen.
The turn and river failed to pair the board when the and fell. That kept Lichtenberger's straight as the winner and he collected the chips. Lichtenberger was all in for 217,000 total and Chen was left with just 8,000.
On the next hand, Chen was all in with the up against the for David Benyamine. Although Chen flopped trip fives, Benyamine rivered a straight as the board ran out . Chen was eliminated and hit the rail.
The break clock has ticked down to zero, and we count 12 players in their seats. The clock waits for nobody, however, and the cards are back in the air.
There are 30 players left, and we'll have a full round of updated chip counts for you in a moment.
The table talk in the room is captivating enough that they could air an audio-only broadcast of this tournament if they wanted to.
The conversations have covered pretty much every topic you can imagine, and a quick game of "Lodden Thinks" even broke out at Daniel Negreanu's table. It reminded him of a story, and he turned around in his chair to needle Andrew "LuckyChewy" Lichtenberger.
Apparently, Chewy was "Lodden" in a game last year, and he was asked to guess the distance from Miami to Los Angeles. "I know a mile's not that big," Chewy was explaining himself today, "and I know it's really far. Like, you don't want to drive there. So I guessed 500,000 miles."
The table all chuckled as Chewy turned red, and Bill Chen leaned over the table to confirm, "You thought it was 500,000 miles across the country? When you were younger?"
There was a bit of an awkward pause before Chewy answered, "Last summer..." The table all laughed again, and after another minute, he added "Good thing there's no correlation between common sense and poker."
Jonathan Duhamel opened the pot to 8,000 from middle position, and Daniel Cates three-bet to 22,000 from the button. In the small blind, Humberto Brenes cold four-bet to 72,000 straight, and the folds came instantly from Duhamel and Cates.
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for McDonald.
and McDonald was able to double up with trip kings. He's now back to around 400,000 while Buchanan was knocked to 285,000.![[user66118]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
, and there was close to 50,000 in the pot. James Obst was first to act, and he led out with 36,000. Andrew Robl took his time considering before making the call, and things were getting serious as the 
landed on the river.
, and Pimenta checked. Cates continued out with a bet of 20,000, and Benyamine quickly called. Pimenta, however, studied the board for a minute or so before announcing a raise. He made it 65,000 total, and Cates and Benyamine folded in turn, the latter looking a bit frustrated in the process.
. Bill Chen, who is a Friend of 
for a straight and was up against the 
fell. That kept Lichtenberger's straight as the winner and he collected the chips. Lichtenberger was all in for 217,000 total and Chen was left with just 8,000.
