The chips of azuma went in preflop via three-bet shove and Bryan Nakamura called with the covering stack.
azuma's K♠K♦ were ahead versus A♣J♠ but the 8♥3♠2♠4♦A♠ runout delivered the ace on the river. He continued his table massage for a few minutes nearby before heading to the payout desk.
Tatsuya was all-in and at risk preflop with J♠J♦ and needed them to hold against the A♦K♣ of hiroto1027. However, the A♣K♠9♥10♣7♠ board delivered both the ace and king and that spelled the end for Tatsuya inside the top 70 finishers.
With the chips going in preflop, TARO S29 as well as Masaya were separated by only a few big blinds and the showdown was as follows.
Masaya: J♣J♥ 
TARO S29: 3♦3♣
The board was all red showing [KdRd6hAdQd] and TARO S29 spiked four diamonds for the flush. His stack of around 310,000 covered by a small margin.
Jon jammed the button into two smaller stacks and ryota622 called for 197,000 in the small blind with the K♣K♠. Jon only had the Q♠8♦ and the 8♣7♠6♠9♦2♠ board brought no upset.
In a duel of the blinds, tanaso squeezed to 120,000 and was called by Bryan Nakamura in the small blind.. The J♦9♠5♥ flop saw Nakamura check and tanaso bet 85,00 to win the pot. They talked about the hand after and tanaso apparently said he had pocket jacks.
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We do have a player called Takeshi in the field and he won a huge pot just before the break when they busted their table neighbour. All chips went in after the A♣K♦3♥2♥ turn with Takeshi's A♠A♥ guaranteed the win versus analogfish with the A♦K♣. The 4♣ on the river was just a formality.
Level: 20
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
The field has been whittled down all the way to only around 88 players left after two hours of play, cut into more than half, as they are heading into the first scheduled 10-minute break of the final day.
Kagura-Boz defended out of the blinds and had the best of it on a board of 9♥8♦7♦2♥J♥ when Makoto barreled through with the A♠A♣. Kagura-Boz called with 6♦5♠ for the bottom end of the straight for the double.
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