With a flop showing Matt Waxman and Leonardo Pires checked to Mike Watson who bet 125,000. Pires check-raised to 350,000 from the small blind and Waxman moved all in for 906,000.
Watson folded and Pires made the call right away.
Pires:
Waxman:
Pires had flopped a straight, and Waxman was looking for running cards to double up, or a seven for the chopped pot. The turn was the and the pot was chopped up after the completed the board.
Ken Demlakian raised to 60,000 under the gun and Leonardo Pires three-bet to 162,000 from the cutoff. The action folded back to Demlakian, and he made the call.
The flop brought out and Demlakian checked to Pires who bet 150,000 and the Aussie check-raised to 360,000. Immediately Pires made it 925,000 and Demlakian tanked for a little bit before making the call.
The turn was the and Demlakian moved all in for 1,260,000. Pires tanked for a bit before folding, and Demlakian raked in a very big pot.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy raised to 65,000 from the hijack and Ken Demlakian called from the button. Martin McCormick immediately moved all in, after having just lost a pot to Leonardo Pires, and Randy Kritzer gave it some thought from the big blind before folding.
Troyanovskiy folded and Demlakian tanked for a bit before folding as well. McCormick showed and he picked up the pot.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy raised to 65,000 and Ken Demlakian called from the cutoff. Randy Kritzer called from the small blind and Leonardo Pires made it 384,000 from the big blind.
Troyanovskiy tanked for a little while before moving all in for 1,519,000 and everyone folded quickly.
David Eldridge raised to 65,000 from the button, Phillip McAllister called from the small blind, and Tony Gregg called from the big to make it three-way action to the flop, which they all checked.
The turn saw McAllister lead out for 138,000, Gregg folded, and Eldridge called to see the river. McAllister fired out 346,000, and Eldridge tanked for two minutes before making the call.
McAllister rapped the table and then mucked when Eldridge showed the winning .
Stephen Chidwick moved all in for 251,000 under the gun and the action folded to the last remaining EPT winner, Toby Lewis, and he moved all in from the small blind as well. The big blind folded and the showdown went as follows.
Chidwick:
Lewis:
The board ran out and Chidwick shook hands with Lewis, as he was knocked out from the tournament.
Randy Kritzer raised to 80,000 under the gun and Leonardo Pires made it 178,000 from his direct left. The action folded back to Kritzer, and he made the call.
The flop brought out and Kritzer checked to Pires, who moved all in right away. Kritzer called all in for 903,000 and another huge pot was created.
Kritzer:
Pires:
The turn brought the and the river the , giving Kritzer a full double up, leaving Pires with less than the average stack for the first time in over four days. Pires went from 6.2 million to 1,790,000 in one level, and the players are now on break.