Elliott Zaydman raised to 25,000 and Miles Reinhard three-bet to 75,000, Zaydman called. On the flop the action would escalate, Zaydman check-raised from 65,000 to 165,000 and snap called after Reinhard moved all in for 440,000.
Reinhard:
Zaydman:
Neither the turn nor the river failed to improve Reinhard and he was eliminated in 45th place.
Just after the break we noticed a large three-bet pot going on between Michael Wang and Simon Deadman. Both players checked the flop and Deadman then fired 77,000 chips after the turn.
Wang folded and Deadman said "Good fold. You had anything there?" The question was left without answer and the Brit stacked the chips.
Danny Hannawa raised and Martin Godsk put him all in from the small blind. The player in the big blind folded and Hannawa called with the for 160,000. Godsk only had but the door card was the followed by the and the .
After the turn, Hannawa started to celebrate and Godsk said "it is not over yet."
Sure enough the river completed the board and Godsk increased his chip lead.
Raymond Starrett and Greg Ostrander have been eliminated. While we missed the action that led to the bustout for Starrett, we did witness how Ostrander hit the rail. He was all in for 87,000 from the cutoff and one seat over, Michael Wang reshoved for more than twice of that.
Wang:
Ostrander:
There was some sweat on the board but Wang held up and boosted his stack.
A player in early position opened to 16,000 and the player on the button flatted the raise. Elliott Zaydman was in the big blind and moved all in for 184,500 total. The early position player, sitting on a stack of over 500,000, thought for a moment and then moved all in. The player on the button flashed sevens and tossed his hand away. Zaydman had and his opponent and they were off to the races.
The flop came keeping Zaydman in the lead and that would not change on the turn. Zaydman would secure the double up when the dealer put out the on the river and he moved to approximately 400,000 in chips.
Jason Smith won a massive flip with against the of Bruno "Kool Shen" Lopes to bump his stack up to 680,000. The Frenchman got reseated to a new table and was all in for 32,000 with .
Kent Snyder looked him up with and had to sweat the board, that ultimately saw the better hand preflop hold up.
Jack Schanbacher opened for a raise and a short-stacked Dennis Stevermer moved all in. It was folded back around to Schanbacher who made the call with . He was well ahead of Stevermer who held . The flop of changed nothing but the gave Stevermer a small glimmer of hope and he said "three" attempting to coax to give the dealer to give him the card he needed. The river was the , however, and Stevermer was off to collect his winnings.