Otto Dierkes was spotted getting up and heading to the bounty pull station as his losing hand was discarded and his chips were headed over into the stack of Matt Stout.
Stout's winning hand of was showing on a board of as he added the boost to his stack.
Christopher Odle raised to 20,000 from the hijack, The cutoff called. Constantine Bogiatzis three-bet to about 80,000 from the small blind. Odle thought a few moments when it was back on him before announcing all in. The cutoff quickly folded and Bogiatzis called.
Odle had the while Bogiatzis was trailing with the in the massive pot, likely one of the largest of the tournament this far.
The flop came . The turn was the and the river was the with neither player holding a club and Odle gained the huge pot of over 800,000 to move himself toward the top of the counts, while Bogiatzis was knocked down.
Naichang Chen was in middle position in a heads-up pot against the cutoff on a flop of .
Chen bet around 25,000 on the flop and the cutoff called. The turn brought the and Chen moved all in for 166,000. The opponent asked for a count but then folded face-up.
Jeremy Pappano was all in for 339,000 against a shorter-stacked opponent and another who had him covered.
Opponent 1:
Jeremy Pappano:
Opponent 2:
"I guess I'm behind," the player with eights said glumly.
The flop of was no help to Pappano and he stood from his seat in anticipation of busting out. Right on time, the dealer then put down the to give him the lead and nothing changed on the turn to win him the huge pot and send one opponent to the rail.
"The fake-out did it!" a table mate said before giving Pappano a fist-bump.