Fabrice Soulier is catching cards like it's his job. Even better for Soulier is the fact that his hands are holding up. Soulier check-called a bet of 200,000 from Alex Gurevich on a flop of . Both players checked the turn, leading Soulier to fire for 300,000 on the river. Gurevich may have thought he was catching a bluff when he called with , but Soulier turned over to drag the pot.
Bradley Craig started this laugher of a hand with an early-position raise to 51,000. Around in late position, Jake Abdallah three-bet it up to 165,000. When it came back on Craig, he moved all in for 1,020,000, and Abdalla made the call for his own tournament life.
Showdown
Craig:
Abdalla:
That's right, nearly 2,000,000 chips up for grabs pre-flop as both men tabled ace-queen. The board ran out blanks, and the two men took their own money back plus an extra couple thousand.
Donnie Peters
Dag Palovic raised to 60,000 from the cutoff seat and Marc McLaughlin called out of the small blind. The flop came down and both players checked.
The turn brought the and McLaughlin checked. Palovic bet 120,000 and McLaughlin called.
The river brought the and McLaughlin checked again. Palovic moved all in for 420,000 and McLaughlin snapped. Palovic held for air and McLaughlin turned a set of deuces with . Palovic was eliminated.
Ryan Fair raised from middle position to 50,000, and Ryan Gafford then pushed all in from the button for 570,000. The blinds got out, and Fair made the call.
Fair showed , and Gafford . The board came , and Gafford is out in 119th. Fair is at 3.18 million now.
Tom Schneider opened for 75,000 from the button, Ludovic Lacay reraised to 250,000 and Schneider made the call.
The flop came down . Lacay led out for 330,000 and Schneider called. The turn came the and Lacay checked. Schneider bet 600,000 only to have Lacay move all in for an additional 1,755,000. After a long think, Schneider gave it up.
After the hand, Schneider was down to 1.8 million while Lacay was up to 4.2 million.
Donnie Peters
From early position, Ben Lamb raised to 53,000. Jonathan Tamayo called from middle position and Bernhard Perner called from the big blind. The three players took the flop of . Perner led with a bet of 117,000. Lamb folded, but Tamayo stuck around.
The turn brought the and Perner led with a bet of 317,000. Tamayo called.
The river brought the and Perner checked. Tamayo fired 500,000. Perner tanked and then mucked his hand, giving Tamayo the pot.
Tamayo is on 2.2 million and Perner is on 2.5 million.
Following a flop of , Roy Vazquez got the last of his chips in with , and was up against James Calderaro who held .
The turn was the , and Vazquez' set of tens were still best. But the river brought the , giving Calderaro the flush and busting Vazquez in 118th place.
Wesley Ismay is one of the players who has chips to burn. Calling 153,000 preflop to try to take out Danny Smith was hardly a drop in the bucket for Ismay. He made that call with against Smith's . A pair of jacks on the turn became a straight on the river, more than enough to take down the pot on a board of .