An early positioned player limped and a second player followed suit. Action came over to Bryan Campanello who made it 4,500 to go. The button and blinds released only to have the original limper slide out a re-raise to 17,000. The next limper folded and action was back to Campanello. He moved all in, putting his opponent to a decision for his last roughly 10,700.
Campanello's opponent went into the tank for quite some time and after a while the clock was called by another player at the table. Campanello's opponent let his cards go, allowing the WSOP bracelet winner to take down the pot before the flop. He now has roughly 61,000 in chips.
We didn't catch the hand but saw Cord Garcia walking away from his table yelling "showers" to a friend. When we arrived, Matthew Lapossie was stacking a massive pot to add to his already overwhelming chip lead. We asked Lapossie what happened and he said that it started out with a player moving all in for approximately 15 big blinds with . The player after him also moved all in with . Then there was yet another all in, this time the player held . The action was on Lapossie who had all three covered and he made the call with .
The board was a good one for Lapossie was it came to give him top set. He would still have to fade the flush and straight draw the player holding had though if he were to win the pot. The turn was the and the river would come the and Lapossie would eliminate the other three with his set of queens. His stack was at an impressive 340,000 — which leads the field by a large margin at this stage of the tournament.
"That was one of the more interesting hands I've ever dealt," said the dealer as Lapossie could only shake his head in disbelief along with the rest of the table.
Lapossie recently took 7th place at the Little One for One Drop tournament at the World Series of Poker and would love to top that performance with a deep run here. He's certainly in position to do just that so far.
The board read when we found Bryan Campanello and an opponent heads up in a hand. Campanello was first to act and shot out a bet of 3,000. His opponent stuck around and the fell on the river. Campanello bet 5,000 and his opponent instantly moved all in over the top for what looked to be 13,200 total.
Campanello let out a low laugh, shook his head, and flung forward a call. His opponent showed for a winning set of sixes. Campanello flashed for top two before tossing his cards into the muck. This hit brought his stack down to about 35,500.
Despite folding to a flop bet from Cord Garcia to lose a pot, Matthew Lapossie is continuing to add to his stack and looks to be the chip leader with 165,000 as we approach the 60-minute dinner break in less than half an hour.
At a nearby table, David Tuthill was eliminated at the hands of Aaron Massey.