Admon Extends His Chip Lead As Four Players Fall

A series of bets and raises between Salim Admon in the cutoff and Dinh Ba in the big blind led to a pile of chips in the middle on a board of , and Ba check-called off his remaining stack of at least 500,000 after the river.

Dinh Ba:
Salim Admon:

Admon had put Ba to a decision for his tournament life after hitting a pair of sevens on the river and Ba looked him up only to see that his sixes were no good. With the pot, Admon has increased his chip lead and now finds himself with a stack of roughly 7.8 million.

Ba's elimination was one of four that happened in rapid-fire, with Anselmo Villreal, Rick Lee, and Jonathan Lawson also finding themselves with no chips within the first 10 minutes of returning from break.