Alex Santiago moved all in for his last 66,000 and Amit Makhija re-shoved over the top. The table folded around and the cards were on their backs.
Santiago:
Makhija:
The board fell and despite flopping a flush draw, Santiago could not hit a turn or river and was eliminated from the tournament. Makhija now sits with 265,000 chips.
An unusually quiet Phil Hellmuth has just doubled up through David Benefield. Perhaps the lack of noise was because Hellmuth had to do it the hard way.
Hellmuth moved all in from under the gun for his last 53,000 with Benefield making the call on the button.
Hellmuth:
Benefield:
The board landed and Hellmuth spikes a ten on the turn to double up to 119,000 with Benefield back to 385,000.
Veronica Dunn is continuing her remarkable comeback after several double ups to now be back in the game after being down to just 1,000 in chips just moments ago.
Amit Makhija raised to 15,000 before Dunn moved all in over the top for 86,500. The table folded around and Dunn now up over 100,000 chips!
Ryan Schmidt is now up to 320,000 after some aggressive betting collected him a nice pot.
Catching the action on a flop, Phil Hellmuth bet 6,000 into a 25,000-chip pot with Schmidt making the call on the button.
Anton Nikaj then put in a check-raise to 25,000 to force Hellmuth to fold. Schmidt made the call.
The turn was the and play checked to Schmidt who fired 28,000. Nikaj made the call and the completed the board on the river. Schmidt fired again for 25,000 on the river and Nikaj gave it up.