From the hijack seat, Ilkin Garibli raised to 35,000. Dominik Nitsche called from the big blind, and the flop came down . Nitsche checked, and Garibli bet 49,000. Nitsche called.
The turn was the , and Nitsche checked. Garibli bet 71,000, and Nitsche folded.
Dan Heimiller and Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu took a flop of . Heimiller fired out a bet of 60,000 only to have Negreanu raise the action to 175,000. Heimiller thought for a moment before announcing that he was all in. Negreanu called for his tournament life of about 250,000 more and the cards were tabled.
Negreanu:
Heimiller:
Negreanu was out in front with top two pair against Heimiller's open-ended straight draw. The hit the turn, bringing Negreanu one step closer to his double up. Unfortunately for KidPoker, the struck the river to give Heimiller his winning seven-high straight. Negreanu sat staring at the board for a moment before springing out of his seat.
"You always do that to me!" exclaimed Negreanu.
"I was hoping you'd fold," remarked Heimiller as he stacked his chips.
"Yeah, I was going to fold when I raised flop," Negreanu replied with a roll of the eye.
Negreanu made his way to the rail, $89,100 richer. Heimiller, on the other hand, now has about 1.77 million in chips.
Taylor Paur shipped for 67,000 from under the gun and Oleksii Khoroshenin called from middle position. The rest of the table folded, leaving the two to table their cards.
Khoroshenin:
Paur:
The board fell down , keeping Khoroshenin's tens out in front. Paur hit the rail in 15th place for $89,1000 while Khoroshenin increased his stack to 1.44 million.
PokerStars Team Pro Andre Akkari moved all in first to act for slightly more than 100,000 and Piotr Franczak reraised to 220,000. It was folded over to Jean-Pascal Savard who moved all in. The action got back to Franczak who made an immediate call. The cards were turned over:
Akkari:
Franczak:
Savard:
Franczak was in the lead and would maintain that after a flop of . The on the turn, however, gave Savard a Broadway straight and a lock on the pot. The river was the and Akkari was eliminated in 16th place while Savard scooped a huge pot that brought his stack to 2,225,000. Franczak was left with just 400,000 after the unfortunate turn of events.
A short-stacked Garrett Greer moved all in for his last 143,000 with and found one taker in Faraz Jaka who held . The board ran out to give Jaka the pot. Greer was eliminated in 17th place.
The tournament staff is now redrawing the remaining 16 players to two new tables.
Piotr Franczak raised to 33,000 from the cutoff only to have Robert Tepper ship all in for 210,000 from the small blind. Action folded back to Franczak and he dropped out calling chips.
Franczak:
Tepper:
The board fell , giving Franczak a set of fives for the win. Tepper was eliminated in 18th place and will take home $69,720 in prize money.
We got to the table with Vicente Delgado mulling over a call that would be for his tournament life. There was approximately 250,000 in the pot and the board was complete and showing . Oleksii Khoroshenin had moved all in after Delgado checked. Arms crossed, leaning back, Delgado said "aaahhhhh" as he tried to think of whether to fold or call. After several minutes he placed some chips in front of him indicating a call.
Khoroshenin turned over and Delgado tried to muck his hand. The dealer turned his hand over revealing for a busted flush draw that paired up jacks on the turn. Delgado was eliminated in 19th place and the tournament is now down to three tables of six players apiece.