Daniel Rudd won't be adding a Championship Bracelet to the Ring he won for taking down Event #2. He had his kings cracked and then busted to an opponent holding kings.
First up, he was in the big blind and called the button's all in with . The board ran to leave him with 3,350.
Rudd waited until he was under the gun before he moved all in for 2,850 and was called by a player in the next seat and the big blind. The flop came and the big blind check-called 5,000 but folded to a shove on the turn.
Rudd opened and was facing . The Brit had outs but the wasn't good enough to stop his demise.
With around 4,000 in the pot and a flop of , two checks saw Slade Fisher bet 1,625 from late position and one of the checkers call. Will Molson then sprung to life with a check-raise to 5,200, Fisher moved all in for 11,700, and the third player folded. Molson made a quick call and the cards were turned on their backs.
Fisher:
Molson:
Molson had flopped two pair, but he needed help as Fisher flopped the nuts. The turn put out some chop options for Molson, but the ended up bricking on the river. Fisher scored the double while Molson sent nearly two-thirds of his stack across the table.
Earlier on, Mustapha Kanit made agreat call for his tournament life and since then he has reaped the rewards that this tournament has offered him. He just took down another big pot to see his stack rise to a mammoth 190,000.
He was battling heads up with Sean Giesbrecht and around 35,000 had made it into the middle by the time the board rested as . Kanit bet 35,000 and Giesbrecht called with for a rivered set. It wasn't good though as Kanit had turned top set with .
The Italian has almost 30,000 more than Jan Suchanek finished with as the Day 1a chip leader and there's more than 3.5 hours left in the day still.
"Am I good enough to fold this?" asked Shyam Srinivasan out loud to himself on the river in a hand.
He was heads up and the board read with around 12,000 in the middle. Srinivasan was under the gun and checked to face an all in bet of 12,300 from his opponent on the button.
After a few minutes the Canadian folded while flashing the for the second nut flush. "Have to trust my instincts!" he commented. Someone who's won nearly $8 million online probably has pretty good instincts in those types of spots.
We noticed Chad Awerbuch had disappeared from Table 31. A quick check with Sean Giesbrecht confirmed that Awerbuch had hit the rail courtesy of Dan "jungleman12" Cates.
According to Giesbrecht, Awerbuch had made a straight on the river, which was the same card that gave Cates a flush. The rest, as they say, is history.
Simon Deadman has done a lot of ducking and diving to stay alive today. He was just all in again and survived with 23,500 to his name.
He was under the gun and battling with a player in the next seat along. The two had made it to the turn with a board reading . Deadman checked to face a 3,000 bet that he treated to a check-raise all in for 15,075. His opponent though for a couple of minutes before releasing his hand.
. The board ran 
to leave him with 3,350.
and the big blind check-called 5,000 but folded to a shove on the 
turn.
and was facing 
. The Brit had outs but the 
ended up bricking on the river. Fisher scored the double while Molson sent nearly two-thirds of his stack across the table.
and was called by the big blind and his 
