It's been a bad for Billy Argyros. He doubled Russell Thomas up in the opening moments of the day and his stack has slid from there. Things are looking up for him finally though after he doubled up.
The action folded to him in the cutoff and he moved all in for his last 26,000. Andrew Gaw shoved from the next seat and successfully isolated the Aussie legend.
Argyros:
Gaw:
The board ran . Argyros shouted for an ace on the turn and then on the river. "There it is! Now someone get me a glass of wine."
Players are on a 10-minute break. There are 45 remaining. Some notable bust outs in the last section of play were, Michael Tureniec, who shoved all in on the turn against Ningdan Shi with queens, Shi had and had flopped a king.
Also, Andy Andrejevic busted in the last level. Andrejevic had a good start to the tournament and was looking to parlay a fantastic month of September into a big score here. Andrejevic had three top 8 finishes in September for over $300,000 in winnings.
Stephen Zhou's neighbour took 500 off his stack to pay the ante after he fell asleep at the table. When he did wake up, Guoliang Wei shoved on him with a straight showing on the board.
That board read and Zhou had had a 20,000 bet called on the turn before he was put to the test on the river for his remaining 78,000. "Good bet," he said with a smile as he folded.
Ningdan Shi has eliminated Michael Tureniec. The two were heads up on the turn and it was the beginning of the end for Tureniec.
The board read and Shi bet 85,000 into a pot of roughly 100,000. The action was on Tureniec, who seemed unsure what to do next. After some deliberation, Tureniec shoved all in for 92,000, only 7,000 more than Shi's bet. Shi called and turned over for top pair. Meanwhile, Tureniec had and the river didn't help him. Tureniec was eliminated shortly before the break.
Peiran Liu and Takuya Suzuki have been recently eliminated. Suzuki, who finished third in a charity tournament before play started today, ran into and his opponent hit a full house to knock him out. There are 45 players remaining.
Connor Drinan is edging back towards 300k after a laughing Huidong Gu folded to his river bet.
Gu raised to 6,000 from the button and Gu peeled from the big blind to see a flop. Gu continued for 6,000 and Drinan check-called to the turn that was checked. Drinan then led for 12,000 on the river and Gu giggled and opened the as he folded. He also showed the after another few seconds.
Thomas Ward has been on a tear today. Since doubling up within the first few hands of the day, Ward has ran his stack up to over 650,000. Yuguang Li is still sitting at just under 500,000 and the two are well ahead of the rest of the pack.