Christian Haggart raised from the cutoff to 5,000 and SangHyn Park, on the button, reraised to 12,000. Ken Demlakian took some time to think but eventually moved all his chips in the middle from the small blind. The big blind and Haggart both folded.
Park made the call instantly and quickly tabled . Demlakian tabled and needed some help. The board ran out . Park took the pot with a flush and Demlakian called it a day.
We're down to 56 players and that means we're almost switching to eight-handed play. When we're down to 40 players play will continue eight handed from there on out. The average stack right now is 91,428 or 50 big blinds.
Ryan Pignatelli has not been doing too well so far today as we just witnessed him losing another pot. Pignatelli raised from the cutoff to 3,600 and Eric Eng called from his left after which the big blind called as well.
The flop brought and the action was checked to Eng who bet 4,700 and only Pignatelli called.
On the turn the hit and Pignatelli check-folded to a 8,800-chip bet. Eng chipped up some more and he's swiftly making his way up the leader board.
Ryan Pignatelli has just been knocked out after his ace-queen failed to beat ace-king. We caught word of Pignatellit's elimination from the tournament staff who explained he had floppped a pair of queens but the river brought a king during this preflop all in that sent him out the door.
We came up to the table with a flop on the board and an all-in announcement from Belov. Marvin de La Cruz called instantly and showed . He was not happy when Belov turned over for two pair. The turn gave the lead back to de La Cruz and the river did not change things. Belov hit the rail while de La Cruz sits with a slightly above average stack.
The last we checked in on Sang Hyun Park, he was sitting with over 160,000 in chips. So it came as a surprise when we saw his final 24,100 in the middle on a flop of . Christian Haggart made the call with and Park showed . The turn came and the river sealed the double up.
We asked Park about his stack and he said he lost all of his chips with ace-queen to Takao Kazuta, who had ace-king.
The board just showed when we picked up the action as Tetsuya Tsuchikawa faced a 16,800-chip bet. After a while he called Eric Eng's bet and on the river the hit.
Eng checked his option this time and Tsuchikawa checked behind.
Tsuchikawa showed and Winfred Yu, seated to his left, tapped the table out of respect as Eng mucked his cards.
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. Demlakian tabled 
and needed some help. The board ran out 
. Park took the pot with a flush and Demlakian called it a day.
and the action was checked to Eng who bet 4,700 and only Pignatelli called.
hit and Pignatelli check-folded to a 8,800-chip bet. Eng chipped up some more and he's swiftly making his way up the leader board.
flop on the board and an all-in announcement from Belov. Marvin de La Cruz called instantly and showed 
. He was not happy when Belov turned over 
for two pair. The 
turn gave the lead back to de La Cruz and the 
. The turn came 
sealed the double up.
hit.
