Shamus
Jesse Haabak opened with a raise to 225,000 from early position, and it folded around to Tommy Vedes who called from the small blind. Steven Begleiter decided to come along as well from the big blind.
The flop came . Vedes checked, and Begleiter bet 600,000. Haabak thought for a while, giving Begleiter a look, then made the call. Vedes folded.
Both players subsequently checked the turn and river. Begleiter showed for eights, but Haabak had the better pair with .
Haabak moves just past 4 million on that one, while Begleiter has 7.575 million.
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Blair Rodman - 34th Place
Blair Rodman open-shoved for his last 815,000 from the button and Luis Nargentino made the call from the small blind.
Rodman
Nargentino
Rodman couldn't improve on the board and exited in 34th place. Nargentino is up to 4.6 million.
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Grayson Ramage - 35th Place
After Kevin Schaffel raised the action up from middle position, Grayson Ramage moved all in for around 800,000. Schaffel made the call.
Schaffel tabled against Ramage's .
The board ran out and that was the end of the line for Ramage.
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This one may not have been an Internet hand but it was definitely a cooler. The action was opened for 195,000 from early position before Jamie Robbins called from the small blind. That call prompted Joe Ward to re-raise an additional 850,000, folding the early-position player. With action back to Robbins, he moved all in for 3.645 million total. Ward shrugged and said, "I call."
Ward:
Robbins:
Once again it was kings for Ward, but this time he wasn't up against queens and jacks -- he was up against aces. And it was the aces, not the kings, that flopped a companion on a flop of . Ward was dead to running kings. He didn't get them.
New counts:
Ward - about 6 million
Robbins - about 7.5 million
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Steven Begleiter made a button raise to 225,000 and Jesse Haabak called from the big blind.
Both players checked the flop. The turn came the and Haabak led out for 315,000. Begleiter called. The river was the and Haabak fired out another 600,000. Begleiter gave it up and Haabak took down the pot.
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Ryan Fair came in raising to 200,000, and he found a caller in Darvin Moon. Heads up then, the flop came out , and both men checked. The turn card was the , and this time Fair led out with a bet of 300,000. Moon quickly called, and the river brought the . After a check from Fair this time, Moon elected to put out a bet of 650,000. Fair instantly called, and Darvin turned over . Fair would hold his cards in his hands for a few seconds, apparently beaten by the rivered two pair. Indeed, he slid his cards into the muck, and the pot goes to the big stack.
Shamus
Antoine Saout
Marco Mattes opened with a raise to 200,000, and it folded to Antoine Saout who reraised to 700,000. Mattes considered the situation, then decided to pick a better spot.
Mattes is now down to 1.3 million, while Saout is presently sitting with 10,550,000. He's in third at the moment behind Billy Kopp (15.4 million) and Phil Ivey (11.3 million).
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Christopher Bach - 36th Place
Christopher Bach, Steven Begleiter, Nick Maimone, and Ludovic Lacay all limped in before the flop, which came down . Lacay checked, Bach checked, Begleiter bet 225,000, Maimone folded, Lacay folded, and Bach check-raised all in for his remaining 1,235,000. Begleiter made the call.
Bach
Begleiter
Bach flopped top pair but Begleiter had outs with an open-ended straight draw. The turn was a blank, the , but the hit the river, making Begleiter a jack-high straight. He took down the pot, increasing his stack to 9.25 million while Bach exited in 36th place.
donpeters
Leo Margets attempted to make something happen on her end when she opened to 250,000 from middle position. Action folded to Eric Buchman in the small blind and he reraised to 2.18 million. Margets made the fold after Jeff Shulman ducked out from the big blind and Buchman scooped the pot.
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Warren Zackey
Warren Zackey opened the pot with an under-the-gun raise to 225,000. Two seats over, Marc McLaughlin was playing his first hand at the table, and he announced a re-raise to 600,000 total. When it came back around to Zackey, he moved all in, sending his opponent deep into the tank. The total count was 2,530,000, and McLauglin eventually made the call to put Zackey at risk.
Showdown
McLaughlin:
Zackey:
With his tournament life on the line, Zackey watched a dry flop come out . McLaughlin stood up to stand behind his chair as both men sweated the next card.
Turn: . Disaster for McLauglin equates to salvation for the all-in Zackey, and the audience roared in reaction to the two-out turn card. The river was paint, but the was of no use to McLaughlin. With his come-from-behind set, Zackey notches a huge double up, sitting now with 5,270,000 and dropping McLaughlin down under 1,000,000.
. Vedes checked, and Begleiter bet 600,000. Haabak thought for a while, giving Begleiter a look, then made the call. Vedes folded. 
turn and 
river. Begleiter showed 
for eights, but Haabak had the better pair with 
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board and exited in 34th place. Nargentino is up to 4.6 million.
against Ramage's 
and that was the end of the line for Ramage.
. Ward was dead to running kings. He didn't get them.
flop. The turn came the 
. Lacay checked, Bach checked, Begleiter bet 225,000, Maimone folded, Lacay folded, and Bach check-raised all in for his remaining 1,235,000. Begleiter made the call. 
, but the 
hit the river, making Begleiter a jack-high straight. He took down the pot, increasing his stack to 9.25 million while Bach exited in 36th place.
