The action was folded to Ali Reza Fatehi and he raised to 40,000 from the small blind. Max Silver asked the dealer again for the amount and then called from one seat over. The flop fell and Fatehi continued for 56,000 to enforce a fold from Silver.
The Brit is now below 20 big blinds, that may be no danger yet but limits his options going forward.
Ole Schemion min-raised from early position and then quickly called the shove of Mike Watson for what looked like just under 300,000 chips.
Watson was the player at risk with and had a coin flip against the of Schemion. The flop was no good for Watson and he lost a few outs when the appeared on the turn. A blank river completed the board and the tournament for the Canadian.
Joining the action on the turn with around 180,000 chips in the pot, Max Silver checked in the small blind and so did Sergey Lebedev in early position. Ali Reza Fatehi now made it 162,000 to go on the button and Silver called, Lebedev folded.
The came on the river and Silver checked, Fatehi quickly announced all in. "How much?" Silver asked and the dealer counted out 482,000 chips to see the Brit call soon after. Fatehi jumped up from his chair and announced nuts, then flipping over . Silver quietly mucked his for the inferior flush and lost heaps of his stack.
Stephen Chidwick just picked up over a half million chips without having to see a flop.
Mike McDonald started the action with raise to 27,000 from the cutoff. Chidwick raised the small blind to 95,000 and Ole Schemion came in with a four-bet from the big blind, making it 212,000.
McDonald started down Schemion for a full two minutes before firing in a fifth-bet, making it 350,000, but it was Chidwick he should have been concerned with, as he promptly six-bet shoved for 855,000 total.
Schemion quickly folded, and after less than a minute McDonald relented with a smile, allowing Chidwick to move up among the leaders without showdown.
Action folded to Christoph Vogelsang on the button, and he made it 28,000 to go. From the small blind Ali Reza Fatehi pushed all in for about 400,000 and action was on Timothy Adams in the big blind. Adams called all in for 310,000 and Vogelsang was quick to fold.
Timothy Adams:
Ali Reza Fatehi:
The board came and with the rivered queen, Fatehi knocked out his neighbor Adams.
In a battle of the blinds, the flop was checked through between John Juanda and Christoph Vogelsang. On the turn, Juanda bet 16,000 and was called before firing another 38,000 on the river. Vogelsang called and then mucked once Juanda showed the for top set.