On a flop of , Scott Peel got his remaining stack in with pocket nines and Joachim Chia looked him up with the . What may have looked like a very bad spot turned into the exact opposite as soon as the appeared on the turn. The river was a blank and Peel was peeled off.
Darian Tan just saw the arrival of Dan Heimiller on table 32 and the 2014 WSOP bracelet winner was in the big blind in his second hand. Tan found from early position and four-bet shoved only to get crushed by the of Heimiller on an ace high board.
On the "feature table" with the flop camera, we noticed Yaxi Zhu stacking chips for a double up. Shortly after though, she was gone and we only saw the board already being completed. Zhu had and was packing her belongings, the opponent on her immediate left had turned two pair with the .
While the stack of Dan Heimiller is difficult to count due to not being stacked in 20s, Piyush Gupta one seat over has built a little pyramid and it is much easier to get an up-to-date information on his count. The two bigger stacks just clashed in a pot that saw approximately 16,000 in the middle until the river.
Heimiller bet 5,000 and Gupta raised to 14,500. The 2014 WSOP bracelet winner took more than a minute to make up his mind and eventually folded.
A short-stacked player moved all in for approximately 8,000 in chips from early position and Antonio Esfandiari made the call on the button. The players behind him folded and the short stack already stood up while revealing .
Esfandiari was ahead with the but the flop changed the situation entirely. The on the turn now gave Esfandiari a gutshot and sure enough the river provided just that to see the better hand preflop hold up.
The chips went in preflop between Gary Benson with and an opponent with . Benson was at risk for 9,150 but the chips weould have gone in either way on the flop. The on the turn guaranteed the double up for Benson and a meaningless river completed the board.
It was an all in preflop by Giacomo Fundaro out of the big blind against the raise of Daniel Murphy and the Italian had about 12,000 or so chips left. Murphy called with and was delighted to see on the other side of the table.
The flop was even more exciting as Fundaro could not win the pot outright anymore. The on the turn provided some chop odds but the river was a brick.