With a flop reading and about 100,000 in the pot already, Arnold Yaxley led out for 75,000. Igor Tregoubov called and so did Nick Civitarese.
The turn was the and the action was checked around. When the dealer fanned the for the river, the action could not stop. Yaxley pushed all in for 640,000 and Tregoubov pondered his decision. After finally throwing in one chip to make the call, the action was now on Civitarese. He took far less time to splash his remaining 200,000 chips in. Tregoubov quickly showed his cards for a full house. The other two players both flashed a jack for the straight but it was not good enough. Tregoubov eliminated both his opponents as he looks to close in on the leaders.
With a couple big names sitting on the same table in the likes of Maria Ho and Jonathan Duhamel, there has been no shortage of action on Table 65. As Ho was stacking chips from the previous pot, she was faced with a raise of 35,000 from an opponent in late position. Ho took her option to three-bet to 90,000 from the cutoff in order to take the lead in the hand. However, Duhamel was sitting in the big blind and was having none of it. Duhamel reraised to 210,00 forcing both the initial raiser and Ho to send their hands into the muck. These big name players will be looking to increase their stacks as we head into the latter part of Day 1a so we will be keeping a close eye on them.
Karim Abdelhamid was facing a bet of 130,000 with the flop showing and already over 100,000 in the pot. Abdelhamid slid out a raise to 630,000, virtually putting his opponent to the test for his tournament life. Abdelhamid's opponent pushed in the rest of his chips and the card were tabled.
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The turn and river were no help to his opponent leaving Abdelhamid collecting the pot with a fist pump and now the chip leader.
Julian Milliard-Feral has been chipping up slowly and amassing plenty of chips. In a recent hand, Milliard-Feral raised from early position to 45,000 and two opponents called him. The flop came and Milliard-Feral led out for 77,000. One player made the call and they were heads up to the turn.
The turn brought the which led to the action being checked around. When the river came the , Milliard-Feral bet 125,000 and his opponent announced call. Milliard-Feral tabled , good enough to take the pot, and add to his already healthy stack.
and about 100,000 in the pot already, Arnold Yaxley led out for 75,000. Igor Tregoubov called and so did Nick Civitarese. 
and the action was checked around. When the dealer fanned the 
for the river, the action could not stop. Yaxley pushed all in for 640,000 and Tregoubov pondered his decision. After finally throwing in one chip to make the call, the action was now on Civitarese. He took far less time to splash his remaining 200,000 chips in. Tregoubov quickly showed his cards 
for a full house. The other two players both flashed a jack for the straight but it was not good enough. Tregoubov eliminated both his opponents as he looks to close in on the leaders.
and already over 100,000 in the pot. Abdelhamid slid out a raise to 630,000, virtually putting his opponent to the test for his tournament life. Abdelhamid's opponent pushed in the rest of his chips and the card were tabled.
, good enough to take the pot, and add to his already healthy stack.
