Balazs Botond raised to 16,000 from the hijack before a short-stack pushed all-in for 43,000. Jim Collopy thought for a moment before flat-calling. Botond also called.
The flop came and Collopy bet 36,000 to which Botond declared all-in.
Collopy got out of his chair and asked for a count, it was only 51,000 more and the American called tabling but finding Botond with while the short stack showed .
Benjamin Pollak opened with a middle-position raise, and Eric Haik moved all in from the cutoff seat. When it came back around the table, Pollak quickly called with and the larger stack. Haik showed up , in danger of being eliminated.
When the dealer ran a board of , that's just what transpired. Pollak's aces hold, and his newly-acquired chips boost his stack to a very healthy 540,000.
WPT Cyprus champion Thomas Bichon got the rest of his middling stack into the pot before the flop with . Unfortunately, his hopes of taking two WPT titles this year would be put off for now by Ludovic Lacay and his .
Board:
Lacay chalks up another one, and he is now building a fortress of chips. His stack of 700,000 puts him easily out in front of the field at this juncture.