Kevin Iacofono opened the pot pre-flop before Carter Phillips re-popped it. Holding pocket kings, Iacofono went all in. Carter eventually called with ace-king of clubs, setting up a showdown for a pot worth 140 big blinds.
Flop:
Turn:
River: Flush for Phillips!
Phillips was pumped to see the river card. Iacofono was disgusted. When the stacks were counted down, Phillips had Iacofono covered. Iacofono is out of the tournament. Phillips has now a huge chip lead, with more than 2,000,000 chips.
The very next hand after the elimination of Kevin Iacofono, as Carter Phillips was still stacking his chips, he made a pre-flop raise. Matt Ezrol was next to act. He moved all in for about 350,000. Phillips quickly called with a hand that was once again in the lead. His was the dominating favorite over Ezrol's , even moreso after a ten-high flop. Ezrol never caught any piece of the board and was thusly retired in 11th place.
"Carter's won every pot," said Craig Bergeron.
"Easy game," Mark Flowers chimed in.
Mikhail Lakhitov was broken to the table after Ezrol's elimination. Flowers waraned Lakhitov how hot Phillips was running.
"He's won every pot. Hopefully you'll be his kryptonite."
It's going to take a lot of kryptonite to de-rail Phillips. He has roughly 2.7 million chips.
Alexander Wilson moved all in from the button. Big blind Hugo Perez peeked down at his cards and quickly called. His was behind Wilson's .
"Ace-nine's been good this World Series," said one railbird. And sure enough, the flop came to give Perez the lead. His pair held with running queens on the turn and river. He doubled up to 427,000, leaving Wilson with just 75,000 chips.
Carter Phillips didn't even think about it for a second. On the turn of a board, he bet 100,000 after Mikhail Lakhitov checked. Lakhitov then check-raised all in for about 570,000 total and Phillips snap-called. His made a pair of trey and an inside straight draw. Lakhitov had two overcards and a flush draw with .
Lakhitov apparently missed the memo from Mark Flowers and Craig Bergeron earlier about how red-hot Phillips has been running. The board blanked out to allow Phillips' hand to hold and to send Lakhitov to the rail in 8th place.
With only seven players remaining, the tournament is on another pause to consolidated to a single, seven-handed table.
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Flush for Phillips!
was the dominating favorite over Ezrol's 
, even moreso after a ten-high flop. Ezrol never caught any piece of the board and was thusly retired in 11th place.
gave him a full double up.
was behind Wilson's 
.