A short stacked Jamie Youngman moved all in from early position and was called by Glenn Sullivan on the button. The blinds folded and the hands were shown to be racing:
Youngman:
Sullivan:
Sullivan picked up additional heart outs on the flop and even more outs with a king or nine when the hit the turn. The dropped down on the river putting two pair on the board and canceling out Youngman's pocket fours. Sullivan's kings and sixes with an ace kicker was the best hand and Youngman was eliminated from play.
We caught up to find the board reading . Michael Collins checked over to Sonny Sekhon who fired out 275,000 into an already fairly large pot. Collins wasted no time announcing that he was all in over the top and Sekhon opted to lay down his hand. With this win Collins is up to about 1.65 million while Sekhon has fallen to 2.25 million.
Richard En moved all in before the flop and was called by Lawrence Iampen. Eh held and was racing with Iampen's .
The board fell and Iampen's pair of aces spelled the end of En's tournament. He was eliminated in 22nd place. Iampen is now sitting on about 1,250,000 in chips.
The final 22 players are now on a 10-minute break. During this break tournament staff will also color up and race off the yellow t1,000 chips. Stay tuned for a full round of chip counts.
Lawrence Iampen has moved all in before the flop during 3 out of the last 4 hands played at Table 42. His tablemates are visibily getting annoyed with the strategy and have begun making comments about it.
"Everyone has a story," were the only words to come out of Iampen's mouth as he scooped up his chips by taking down all three pots. He's currently sitting on about 730,000.
Sonny Sekhon began the day as our chip leader and that is a title that he is yet to relinquish. Action folded to David Lim's button and he raised to 63,000 only to have Sekhon come over the top with a three-bet to 172,000. Afshin Majidi looked down at his hole cards in the big blind and announced a four-bet all in. Lim got out of the way and Sekhon called to find that he was racing with his opponent.
Sekhon:
Majidi:
The board fell and Sekhon's tens were able to hold. Majidi was forced to settle for 23rd place and Sekhon now has about 2.38 million.
Edmond Liu moved all in before the flop for his last 218,000. It folded to Calvin Anderson's button and he announced all in over the top. The rest of the table folded and the hands were revealed to find Liu in need of help.
Liu:
Anderson:
The dealer produced a board of and Liu was sent to the rail. Anderson has now breached the one million chip mark with about 1,100,000 in chips.
Michael Collins opened with a raise before the flop and Day 1a chip leader Norman Overdijk called. The two saw a flop of and Collins fired a continuation bet of an unknown amount. Overdijk called and the turn was the .
Collins bet all in which was actually a bet for Overdijk's tournament life. Overdijk snap called and showed for a flopped set of fours. Unfortunately for Overdijk, Collins held for top set. The finished the board and Overdijk was forced to settle for a 25th place finish.