Craig Marquis has enjoyed a double up to 110,000 courtesy of Khalid Hameed. Hameed went all in from the button with and Marquis, covered by Hameed, called all in with . An eight on the flop was tempered by a king on the turn of the board, and all in stays in.
A pitifully short-stacked Travis Roseberry doubles through Alex Veldhuis, his all-in preflop against Veldhuis' pocket tens making a straight on the board and increasing his stack to 26,000.
Now Veldhuis finds himself short and pushes with from the button. Kyle Bowker finds kings, the board provides Veldhuis with absolutely no assistance, and Bowker and Roseberry are heads up, Bowker holding an absolutely crushing chip lead of 254,000 to Roseberry's 46,000.
With just three players remaining on table 2, each hand is a crucial one and, in Craig Gray's case, especially if it's for your tournament life.
Calling all in from the small blind after Ali Eslami had raised it up to 25,000 from the button, Gray found himself coinflipping with versus . A harmless board later and MrCasino is back in the game with 51,000.
A preflop raising war between Kyle Bowker and Matthew LaGarde saw LaGarde all in preflop. His pocket tens failed to hit against Bowker's well-timed aces, and LaGarde is out while Bowker continues three-way with Alexander Veldhuis and Travis Roseberry, Bowker the chip leader on 170,000.
Thomas West has defeated Marcus Moulton heads up to go through to the final table tomorrow.
Moulton, on the button, made it 5,000 to go, and West raised him all in. "I have to call you," said Moulton, and flipped over a dominating . They looked likely to even up their stacks, but West's hit the board to cruelly knock out Moulton and advance to the final round.
Craig Marquis must have downed the sugary drinks during the break, as he's come out firing, now on 56,000 after doubling through Casey McCarrell with versus and an ensuing board.