Wesley Wiemes is sporting a short stack after doubling Michael Pesek, but recently doubled himself through Walid Bou-Habib.
Wiemes:
Bou-Habib:
The flop smashed Wiemes, giving him a pair of tens and a flush draw. The on the turn did not improve Bou-Habib's hand nor did the on the turn, doubling Wiemes to 320,000 chips and dropping Bou-Habib to 485,000.
Marcio Barbieri was all in on the feature table with pocket nines, , against the for Shayne Khanna. The flop came down and Khanna took the lead. After the on the turn and the on the river, all of Barbieri's chips went over to Khanna, about 500,000 or so.
Sam Stein opened with a raise and the action folded to Eric Froehlich who three-bet jammed from the blinds. Stein snapped it off and had E-Fro dominated.
Stein:
Froehlich:
The flop was a doozy: . Froehlich began laughing, not only was he open ended, he had the only spade. Stein's rail called for a picture card and the dealer obliged, burning and turning the . Only a deuce or seven could save Froehlich and unfortunately for him the was neither
E-Fro hit the rail while Stein's stack ballooned to 3.2 million chips.
Dmitriy Stelmak raised and Max Lehmanski reraised. Stelmak moved all in for 335,000 more and Lehmanski called. Stelmak was ahead and dominating Lehmanski's with the .
The board ran through and Stelmak doubled to about 900,000. Lehmanski dropped back to 3.24 million.
Toby Lewis and Chris Oliver got all the money in preflop for this race situation. Lewis was ahead with pocket sevens. He'd need to fade the five board cards against Oliver's in order to stay alive.
The flop came down and Lewis stayed in the lead. He even added a straight draw. The turn was the and that vaulted Oliver to the front with a pair of kings. The river completed the board with the and that was it. Lewis was eliminated in 34th place while Oliver moved to 3.2 million.
From under the gun, Max Lehmanski raised to 68,000. Ilan Rouah was in the cutoff seat and moved all in for 400,000. Ana Marquez called from the button and then Lehmanski folded.
Rouah:
Marquez:
The board ran through to give Marquez the win and send Rouah to the rail. Marquez is up to 3.16 million.
Rafael Golka opened to 67,000 from under the gun and Alan Gould three-bet shoved for 471,000 from middle position. The action folded back to Golka who called and the hands were tabled.
Gould:
Golka:
The flop was a sweat because Golka held the only club and the on the turn brought him one more step closer to a flush. The river wasn't a club, but the was enough to give Golka a winning set and eliminate Gould from the tournament. While Gould headed to the cage to collect his winnings, Golka stacked his new chips and is now up to 1.3 million.
Josh Bergman was all in for his last 553,000 preflop holding against Joel Patchell's . Bergman was near the button and Patchell in the small blind.
The flop was great for Bergman and the only way he could be eliminated was if Patchell went runner-runner for a straight flush. The on the turn ended that dream and the on the river gave Bergman a better full house for fun.