The money was all in the middle after some heavy betting preflop. We caught the action as the cards were tabled:
Marchese:


Opponent 1:


Opponent 2:


The board ran out




and Marchese's aces held up - the rest, as they say, is history.










and Marchese's aces held up - the rest, as they say, is history.


against Sylvain Trives.



and river the
and Trives is eliminated as Karamalikis is now out to 270,000 chips.

, only to find himself dominated by the 
and 
of two opponents.



and the jacks held up.

to find himself racing against Karamalikis' 
.



to pair up Woods' ace and give him the double up. Karamalikis is down to 211,000.






was kind to Seri as it gave him hope with an open-ended straight draw but the turn was even kinder as the
gave him a set and the lead in the hand. The river blanked the
and Seri takes it down to move to 91,000 and send Kepitis off to the rail.

won a race against an opponent's 
on a 



board.

into an opponent's 
as the board ran out 



.








, giving both players trips but Vgnorum was vanquished by Nguyen's ace kicker.

.



to give Thompson trips and send Sherwell to the rail.

and 
up against the 
of Fletcher which held on the 



board.