A player in early position opened the action to 5,000 and Danny Lobato made it 15,000 to go. It was folded back to the original raiser who made the call.
The flop came and both players checked. The turn was the and Lobato's opponent led out for 20,000. A quick call was made by Lobato.
The river was the and Lobato's foe instantly moved all in. "Need a count," said Labato quietly and the dealer proceeded to break down the various stacks of his opponent. The amount was for 53,800 and after a few moments of consideration, Labato quietly said "call" and turned over . It was a good call as his opponent held for a busted flush draw with two overs that never got there.
"Helluva call," said a player at Labato's table as he became the first player out of all four starting flights to hit the 300,000 chip mark.
Players are on a 10-minute break — most likely their last break of the evening. There are 29 players remaining meaning 13 more need to be eliminated before play wraps up.
We got to the table and Chris Bolek was up against a shorter-stacked opponent who was all in and at risk on a board of with Bolek holding for a pair of kings and his opponent holding for a pair of nines. The river was the giving Bolek trip kings and eliminating the short stacked player.
Bolek had been biding his time well and with that pot moved above the 100,000 chip mark with 125,000 in chips.
Alex Outhred moved all in first to act for approximately 45,000 from late position and found one caller. The two were off to the races with Outhred holding and his opponent . The board ran out and despite picking up straight and flush draw outs Outhred was unable to improve and the pair of sevens took down the pot. There are 24 players remaining — 8 more before play wraps up for the night.
A short-stacked player opened to 21,500 leaving himself just 2,000 behind. It was folded to Christian Rodriguez who grabbed a stack of T5,000 chips and made it 50,000 to go. Chris Swanson thought for a moment but ultimately decided to fold and the short-stacked player put in the last of his chips with . Rodriguez showed prompting Swanson to let out a sigh of relief as he told the table he folded pocket eights.
The board ran out to give Rodriguez the pot and putting us down to the final twenty players.
As told to us by Chris Swanson, Rex Clinkscales opened the action to 10,000 and Swanson reraised to 25,000. It was folded back to Clinkscales who moved all in for approximately 85,000. Swanson snap-called with while Clinkscales showed . An ace on the flop was more than enough for Swanson who eliminated Clinkscales and moved into the chip lead with 338,000 in chips while doing so.
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and both players checked. The turn was the 
and Lobato's opponent led out for 20,000. A quick call was made by Lobato.
and Lobato's foe instantly moved all in. "Need a count," said Labato quietly and the dealer proceeded to break down the various stacks of his opponent. The amount was for 53,800 and after a few moments of consideration, Labato quietly said "call" and turned over 
. It was a good call as his opponent held 
for a busted flush draw with two overs that never got there.
with Bolek holding 
for a pair of kings and his opponent holding 
for a pair of nines. The river was the 
giving Bolek trip kings and eliminating the short stacked player.
. The board ran out 
and despite picking up straight and flush draw outs Outhred was unable to improve and the pair of sevens took down the pot. There are 24 players remaining — 8 more before play wraps up for the night.
. Rodriguez showed 
prompting Swanson to let out a sigh of relief as he told the table he folded pocket eights.
