Joseph Elia just took a chunk out of Kirk Acevedo's once growing stack, fading a myriad of outs.
The hand started with an Acevedo limp and Elia raise to 4,000. Acevedo called, then led out for 11,500 on a flop. Elia shipped for 38,100 total and Acevedo made the call with , essentially flipping against Elia's .
The board ran out to give Elia the double and knock Acevedo down to earth.
Facing a 6,000 chip bet with about 12,000 in the middle on a flop, Randy Pfeifer shipped it in. Vincent Palma did the same behind, having him covered and the raiser folded.
Pfeifer needed help with the nut-flush draw against Palma's two pair, but got none on the turn and river.
With Pfeifer gone, Palma has moved to the top of the counts.
Andy Spears made it 4,500 under the gun and both blinds called. They all checked the flop, but when the turn fell and the small blind checked, the big led for 7,000.
Spears was the only caller, and after the river was revealed, the big blind fired again, making it 17,000. Spears made the quick call and as the big blind moved to muck, Spears showed to take it down, inching ever closer to the 200,000 chip mark and into the lead.
Vince Palma limped from under the gun plus one before Sal Incartona made a button raise to 5,000. The big blind called before Palma made it 22,000 total.
It came back to Incartona, who decided to bump it to 50,000 total and only Palma called. The flop came down and they quickly got the rest of the chips in. Palma was in great shape with versus Incartona's and managed to hold following the turn and river.
As a result, Plama moved into the chip lead and Incartona moved out of the poker room.
A draw was conducted to determine the number of hands to play before the flight will come to a close. They drew a six and the remaining players will play six more hands before bagging up.