Thomas Fyrqvist was another one of the $530 satellite qualifiers who has just been eliminated.
Thomas Fyrqvist was another one of the $530 satellite qualifiers who has just been eliminated.
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, Thiago Crema checked out of the big blind and called a bet worth 500,000 by George McDonald in the cutoff.
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fell on the river and Crema checked. McDonald now jammed for just over 2.1 million and Crema tank-folded.
Jaime Staples got his chips in from the big blind against Daniel Smyth who was sitting in the hijack.
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for Staples to hit the flop for a pair of sixes to double up with.
Jason Koon chopped with ace-seven versus ace-eight but vanished shortly after in 128th place. Right after, another big name fell.
[Removed:564] saw his stack cut in half by Adrian Mateos and he then lost a flip with ![]()
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of Kristen Bicknell.
Bicknell moved up to more than 5 million but she then clashed with Sosia Jiang. The New Zealander defended the big blind to see a flop of ![]()
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and check-raised to 2,080,000. Bicknell jammed for 5.5 million and Jiang called.
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turn gave Jiang straight outs and she indeed got there on the
river to eliminate Bicknell in cruel fashion.
Martin Bremner was one of two qualifiers who earned their spot all the way from a $5 satellite and he made several pay-jumps on Day 2. However, his run just came to an end as he sent the chips over to Manuel Ruivo.
Manuel Fritz opened to 320,000 and Bremner jammed for the 1,069,927 he had left. Ruivo reraised to 1,824,000 and that isolated successfully.
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and that spelled the end for Bremner.
Lawrence Leblanc earned his seat through one of the $530 satellites but is also out now.
Pavel Veksler was eliminated just before the 118 remaining players were sent for their first 5-minute break of the day.
In the final hand before the break, Oliver Weichhart opened from under the gun and then called the jam by Matthew Bushell for 2,242,610 in the hijack.
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and that spelled the end for Bushell.
Ryan Plant was all-in from the cutoff and covered by Steve O'Dwyer in the small blind.
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for both of them to hit two pair but for O'Dwyer to hold with the higher kicker to eliminate Plant.