Over at 287, Eric Cajelias is heads-up with Erion Islamay. Cajelais has 270,000 and Islamay has 180,000 after his last hand with Bill Heupel
Heupel open-shoved his last 40,000 or so on the turn when the board read getting a call from Islamay. Heupel clearly didn't think he was getting called as he showed down to the of Islamay. The river was a and Islamay scooped the pot to get into heads-up play with only a slight disadvantage.
David Pham also has his three-handed table covered pretty easily, so they may be our next table to get heads-up. We'll keep you posted.
Will Failla has doubled up to over 90,000 after being all in preflop with against Yosuke Sekiya's after the board came . This table is still four-handed and looking pretty tight.
Daniel Negreanu raised to 3,600 on the button, and Daniel Fischer called in the small blind. Keeping with his aggressive style, Giorgio Medici squeezed and raised it 12,000 on top. Negreanu thought for about 20 seconds before calling, and Fischer came along as well to make it a family pot. The flop came , and Fischer checked to Medici who fired out 20,000. After about 15 seconds of thought, Negreanu went all-in, causing a fold from Fischer. Medici called, and the players flipped their cards up.
Negreanu:
Medici:
Negreanu picked up some additional outs with the on the turn, but the river brought the . Negreanu rushed off to the next tournament, while Medici prepared for his heads up battle with Fischer. Medici has Fischer outchipped by at least 2-to-1.
Dan Kelly just completed a dominant performance of his final table after he beat Jacob Bazeley heads up. Kelly check-raised a flop of before bet/calling against Bazeley's shove on the turn with . Bazeley only had and the on the river couldn't save him.
With 3 heads-up matches in progress and Dan Kelly already winning his table, table 275 is the anomaly with seven players still remaining. Michael Capener, Robert Georato, Andrew Pantling, Noah Sandler, Amit Makhija, Victor Ramdin, and Jason Deutsch are taking their sweet sweet time and we hope they decide to make some moves soon or else they'll be here all night!
Eric Yates has doubled up through Scott Montgomery to bring the chip counts almost even, it was Yates' against Montgomery's and the board came . Yates is on about 250,000 to Montgomery's 200,000.
Mike DeMichele was riding a short stack for a long time, but his luck finally ran out, as he has just been busted by Robbie Verspui. We caught the hand as DeMichele was contemplating calling all in on a board. He held his cards, , practically face up in one hand and the rest of his small stack in the other. He threw the chips in, and saw that precentage wise he was in solid shape, as Verspui showed . The turn brough the , giving DeMichele even more outs. But the river came the , and DeMichele never caught up. That table is now three handed.