Another flip of the coin for a tournament life, this time Nick Mitchell's. The shot stack in the room got all in for just over 70,000 with 
, and Chris Bell gave him action with pocket nines.
The board came 
, nice and friendly to Mitchell's overcards. His pair of tens earns him a double up to about 155,000, while Bell falls back to 342,000, slightly less than he started the day with.
Chris Klodnicki raised to 9,000 under the gun, and Jay Nair's pocket pair was good enough to get his last 13,000 into the pot. His pair was 
, and he was racing against Klodnicki's 
.
The first four cards were safe on board (
), but the river 
gave the pot and the knockout to Klodnicki. He's increased his chip lead by just a tiny margin, but the situation is much more significant for Nair. He's out in 20th place, and we're one knockout away from a redraw.
In middle position, Jack Schanbacher made it 9,000 to play, and Ketan Pandya three-bet to 25,000 straight from the big blind. Schanbacher shoved for about 100,000 total, and Pandya called to put him at risk. Schanbacher was in bad shape in yet another pair-verus-pair showdown:
Schanbacher: 
Pandya: 
The board, if you will: 
Schanbacher can't connect with his small pair, and he has been eliminated in 21st place. Pandya adds his chips to his own stack, moving to 360,000 in the process.
Second to act preflop, Victor Ramdin came in raising to 10,500, and the table folded around to the small blind. Todd Terry had 86,500 chips left, and he slid them all in across the imaginary betting line. Ramdin made the call, and it was a coin flip for Terry's tournament life:
Ramdin: 
Terry:
The board ran out low, coming 
to secure Terry's double up and lift his stack back to 180,500.
Ramdin was kind enough to spend his break recording a podcast with us, but it looks like we've failed to provide him with the run-good. Granting that double knocks him down to about 78,000.
Level: 18
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
499,500 | |
|
||
|
488,000
12,000
|
12,000 |
|
370,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
330,000
10,000
|
10,000 |
|
308,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
273,500
64,500
|
64,500 |
|
260,500
6,500
|
6,500 |
|
||
|
247,500
9,500
|
9,500 |
|
163,000
11,000
|
11,000 |
|
|
||
|
160,500
29,500
|
29,500 |
|
|
137,000
3,000
|
3,000 |
|
112,000
4,000
|
4,000 |
|
108,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
101,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
96,000
52,000
|
52,000 |
|
93,500
5,900
|
5,900 |
|
92,000
38,000
|
38,000 |
|
|
88,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
80,500
29,500
|
29,500 |
|
|
73,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
|
|
31,000
23,000
|
23,000 |
The players have been sent off for their first twenty-minute break of the day.
Dan Kelly has been watching his stack shorten slowly throughout this day, and he finally took his stand with 
. The news wasn't so bad when Eugene Katchalov came along with 
as "djk123" was drawing live for the double up.
The 
flop changed nothing, and Kelly could not connect with the turn or the 
river, either. He's been eliminated before the first break, while Katchalov recovers some of his losses to work back to 254,000.
Micah Raskin and Chris Bell tangled up in a preflop raising war that left the former all in for about 150,000 against the big stack. The two men were racing, Raskin with the pair of and Bell with the overcard 
.
Bell found a king on the flop, but it came with bad news as well -- a ten. The board ended up 
, and Raskin's set gives him the double up to 305,000. That's the biggest hit Bell has had to endure in quite a while, but he's still sitting with 319,700.
In the hijack seat, Christian Harder opened to 7,200, and Andy Frankenberger three-bet to 21,100 from the button. Harder four-bet shoved, and Frankenberger called all in for about 85,000 total. Cards up, gents:
Harder: 
Frankenberger:
The 
flop all but locked up the double for Frankenberger, finding his set to leave Harder drawing to runners. The turn 
ended any potential drama, and the river was a mere formality. Frankenberger gets his double, back to 171,000. For Harder, it's the downward trend as his stack is nearly cut in half to about 108,000.
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