Matt Glantz moved all in for 92,000 on the button, and big blind David Stefanski made the call.
Matt Glantz: A♥9♥
David Stefanski: A♠7♠
The 5♠8♣2♦8♦6♦ runout secured a much-needed double for Glantz.
Matt Glantz moved all in for 92,000 on the button, and big blind David Stefanski made the call.
Matt Glantz: A♥9♥
David Stefanski: A♠7♠
The 5♠8♣2♦8♦6♦ runout secured a much-needed double for Glantz.
Action folded to Matt Glantz in the small blind, who limped in with A♥4♥ Michael Wang checked his option with Q♦5♦ in the big blind.
The 7♣8♥A♣ flop went check-check, before Wang called a bet of 18,000 from Glantz on the Q♥ turn.
The river 5♠ gave Wang two pair, and he bet out for 85,000 when checked to. Glantz called, and saw the bad news.
Level: 19
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 12,000
The players are heading to a 15-minute break. Reporting continues at 6:40 p.m. local time.
David Stefanski opened to 22,000 under the gun holding Q♥9♥, and Clemen Deng defended his big blind with K♠9♦.
Deng then check-called a bet of 18,000 on the 9♣5♠Q♣ flop, and did the same on the 3♥ turn after Stefanski sized up to 63,000.
The 6♦ fell on the river, and Stefanski went for a third and final barrel, quickly shoving after he was checked to for a third time. Clemen tanked for quite some time, before seeing the bad news, as his pair of nines was no good against the top two of Stefanski.
Clemen Deng opened to 20,000 under the gun, before snapping off Michael Wang's shove from the big blind.
Michael Wang: A♠2♥
Clemen Deng: J♠J♥
Wang already had the check mark on the turn, as the A♥Q♥A♦Q♣9♦ runout gave him top boat, and he lived to fight another day.
Action folded to Michael Gagliano on the button, who moved all in for 105,000. David Stefanski made the call from the big blind.
Michael Gagliano: Q♥J♦
David Stefanski: A♣5♥
The BetMGM Ambassador picked up more outs on the K♣9♦9♥ flop, but couldn't find any of them as the board ran out 4♠2♣ to help Stefanski cross the 1 million chip mark.
Brock Wilson opened to 20,000 from early position. David Stefanski then made it 52,000 to go from late position, Action folded back to Wilson, and his shove was was snapped off by Stefanski.
Brock Wilson: 9♥9♣
David Stefanski: A♠K♦
Despite two of them being folded preflop, Stefanski found the case king on the 4♠8♥K♣ flop to soar into an immediate lead. Wilson couldn't find a nine on the Q♥6♣ runout, as his chips were handed to his opponent.
Clemen Deng opened to 20,000 from late position. Jeremy Becker then movved all in from the big blind for 100,000, and Deng made the call.
Jeremy Becker: A♦Q♠
Clemen Deng: A♣K♦
Becker asked the table if anybody folded a queen, and was told that there was at least one king in the muck. However, that wasn't enough to save him, as he hit two pair on the 5♥6♦A♥4♣5♠ runout, but had quite the kicker problems.
Deng, once the table shortstack, has now skyrocketed into second place on the leaderboard.
Clemen Deng moved all in for his 144,000 from the small blind. Brock Wilson peeled his cards in the big blind, and snap-called.
Clemen Deng: K♠7♣
Brock Wilson: A♦Q♠
The 10♣6♦2♣ flop offered little help to Deng, but the A♣ river was one of the spiciest in the deck. Although Wilson made top pair, Deng's equity improved, and he made a running flush on the 4♣ river to get a second double of the final table.