Paul Tedeschi raised to 25,000 and Qi Luo called, as did Xixiang Luo. The flop came and Tedeschi and Luo checked to Xixiang Luo. He bet 38,000.
Tedeschi folded and Qi Luo took a moment. He was a little frustrated and folded face up. Xixiang cheered and slapped face up next to the flop for a gut-shot straight draw.
Connor Drinan nodded his head is approval after Patrick Mahoney made a river call against him with bottom pair.
Mahoney had raised his button and bet a flop. Drinan called both times from the big blind before they each checked the turn. The river was the and Drinan led for 85,000. Mahoney took several minutes to call with , beating Drinan's busted flush draw with .
Steve O'Dwyer had been nursing a short stack all day and found a spot to get his stack in. He wasn't best pleased about his play after busting but at least he laddered up a pay jump.
The action folded to him in the hijack and he moved his last 85,000 into the middle. Nan Tu looked at his hand in the big blind and made the call.
O'Dwyer:
Tu:
The board ran .
O'Dwyer said he was going to take a break and then hop in the Super High Roller event that's just about to kick off.
Connor Drinan continued to build his stack when he eliminated Matthew Wakeman.
Drinan opened for 30,000 preflop and Wakeman shoved all in for 336,000. Drinan called. Drinan had and Wakeman had . The board ran out and Wakeman was eliminated in 16th place.
Drinan extended his chip lead and is now over 1.3-million.
He moved all in for 36,000 and the action folded around to Patrick Mahoney in the big blind. Before he even looked at his hand, Cheng told hm he had to call. Mahoney agreed.
Cheng:
Mahoney:
The board ran to make the American one pair.
Before Cheng headed off, Connor Drinan took the time to tell him how well he played the huge hand before.