Edward Teems moved all in for a total of 277,000, and the bet passed nearly all the way around the table. Peter Eastage was the last man standing between Teems and free chips, but the World Champ made the call with the covering stack. He tabled and Teems was racing for his tournament life with .
Eastgate seems to have won over a lot of fans as the arena eruputed when the flop came . Teems was in a deep hole, and the and that filled out the board were total bricks. That's the end of his line, while Eastgate adds an important boost to his stack; he's sitting with just over 700,000 now.
A huge pot just went down on Blue #30. It was raised preflop from early position by Fernando Gordo to 56,000. Bertrand Grospellier, Scott Cook and Don Tran all called the raise, creating a 4-way pot with more than 225,000 chips in it before a single community card came down.
The flop was . Gordo, the preflop raiser, had to act first. He bet 155,000 and got calls from Grospellier and Cook both. Only Tran folded.
The turn paired the board. Gordo fired another 250,000 into the middle. Again Grospellier and Cook both called, creating a gigantic pot of almost 1.5 million chips heading into the river .
Gordo, perhaps sensing something amiss, finally slowed down. He checked. Grospellier also checked, bringing the action to Cook.
"I can't do it," Cook said after a few moments. He also checked, taking us to showdown.
Gordo: - two pair, aces and threes
Grospellier: - two pair, aces and threes
Cook: - a full house, fives ful of threes
Cook dragged the pot to increase his count to about 3 million.
Igor Sharaskin was all in preflop for about 280,000 with and found himself in the tough spot of being up against Jordan Smith's .
The flop came , and suddenly Sharaskin's prospects appeared much brighter with his set of nines. The turn then improved his hand to a full house. But the on the river snatched it away from Sharaskin, knocking him out in 133rd place.
Fabrice Soulier is runing good right now. Really, really good. He called the preflop all-in raise of Don Tran. Tran's was drawing thin against Soulier's . Tran picked up a few more out with a flop of .
Soulier refused to watch as the turn and river came out, instead bowing his head in the direction of Joe Sebok, sitting to his right. Both of those cards were blanks for Tran, sending him to the rail.
On a flop of , Mark Ader led out for 220,000, Matt Affleck moved all in, having him well-covered and Ader went into the tank as he contemplated a call for his remaining 720,000.
"Will you show if I fold?" asked Ader. Affleck remained silent.
Ultimately, Ader made the call. Affleck's head sank as he turned up for a bluff while Ader showed . The turn was the , the river was the and Ader doubled to 2,350,000 while Affleck's stack plummeted to 890,000.
and Teems was racing for his tournament life with 
.
. Teems was in a deep hole, and the 
and 
that filled out the board were total bricks. That's the end of his line, while Eastgate adds an important boost to his stack; he's sitting with just over 700,000 now.
. Gordo, the preflop raiser, had to act first. He bet 155,000 and got calls from Grospellier and Cook both. Only Tran folded.
paired the board. Gordo fired another 250,000 into the middle. Again Grospellier and Cook both called, creating a gigantic pot of almost 1.5 million chips heading into the river 
.
- two pair, aces and threes
- two pair, aces and threes
- a full house, fives ful of threes
and found himself in the tough spot of being up against Jordan Smith's 
, and suddenly Sharaskin's prospects appeared much brighter with his set of nines. The 
turn then improved his hand to a full house. But the 
board and hit the rail in 136th place.
. Magidov checked, Saca bet 300,000, Smith called, and Magidov folded.
for the flush, and Smith mucked. Saca has 2.2 million now, while Smith has 1.7 million.
. Hinkle fired out 70,000. Dang tanked and then made the call.
and Hinkle checked. Dang fired 150,000 into the middle. Hinkle slid out 150,000 of his own chips to make the call.
and Hinkle checked. Dang checked behind. Hinkle tabled 
, and both players checked. The turn was the 
. Bilzerian fired out 105,000, and Schneider made the call. 
was drawing thin against Soulier's 
. Tran picked up a few more out with a flop of 
, and was needing to hit an ace versus Andrew Lichtenberger's 
