Aaron Coulthard committed the remainder of his stack with pre-flop, but he had the misfortune of running into Montagna Corrado's pocket jacks. Corrado flopped top set, the board running out to eliminate Coulthard in 90th place.
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After having the exposed on the first go around, Tommy Vedes raised from middle position to 75,000. Only Ian Tavelli in the big blind made the call.
The flop came down . Tavelli checked and Vedes fired 122,000. Tavelli then raised to 500,000 straight. Vedes instantly flung his cards forward into the muck.
Vedes dropped to 4.6 million while Tavelli increased to 2.7 million.
Before the flop, Ludovic Lacay had raised from middle position, Craig Boyd reraised from the button, and it folded back to Lacay who called. The flop then came . Lacay checked, Boyd bet 600,000, and Lacay called.
The turn was the . Lacay checked, and Boyd pushed all in for 1.526 million. Lacay went into the tank for three minutes. The pot was already about 2 million before Boyd's shove. Finally, Lacay made the call.
Lacay turned over . Boyd showed the current nuts -- . Then came another friendly river for Lacay -- the -- and the pair chopped.
Lacay is still at about 5.2 million, and Boyd still about 2.6 million.
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Walking on the moon
Darvin Moon open-limped from early position before Christopher Bach raised to 175,000. Jamie Brown then reraised to 375,000 from the button. Action folded back over to Moon and he reraised to one million. Bach ducked out of the way, but Brown went into the tank. After a solid two minutes, he announced that he was all in with his remaining 1.4 million. Moon quickly called.
Moon showed against Brown's .
The board ran out and no help for Brown. He was eliminated from the tournament as Moon shot up to 7.5 million in chips.
Adam Bilzerian
The table folded around to Tom Schneider on the button who raised to 100,000, Ludovic Lacay folded his small blind, then Adam Bilzerian reraised to 400,000 from the big blind. Schneider called.
The flop came , and Bilzerian didn't waste much time pushing out a stack of green (25,000) chips -- a bet of 550,000. Schneider tanked for a couple of minutes, then folded.
Bilzerian is up to 2.66 million, while Schneider now has 1.135 million.
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Scott Bohlman now with 2.6 million
Action folded to Loic Degrou and he moved all in for approximately 570,000 in the small blind. Scott Bohlman quickly made the call out of the big blind and tabled pocket jacks -- . Degrou rolled over .
"Please don't put this one on T.V," said Bohlman.
The ESPN camera crew on hand came to witness the board run out . Degrou was eliminated from the tournament, while Bohlman raked in the pot to put him up to 2.6 million.
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Antonio Esfandiari raised preflop and then called a reraise from Wesley Ismay. The flop came down and Esfandiari bet 400,000. Ismay called.
The turn was the and Esfandiari led for 700,000. Ismay moved all in for over two million total. Esfandiari made the call.
Esfandiari tabled and Ismay held just queen high with . The river was the and Ismay was sent to the rail.
Esfandiari now has a little over 5.6 million chips.
Billy Kopp raised it up from middle position, making it 80,000 to play. On the button, Joe Sebok announced an all in, committing the remaining 301,000 of his chips to the pot. When it came back to Kopp, he reluctantly made the call, Sebok now at risk for his tournament life.
Showdown
Kopp:
Sebok:
From the far side of the arena came the cheers for, "Queen! Spades! Queen or seven!" And from the near side, the PokerRoad crew was shouting, "Keep it clean, dealer! Do the right thing, keep it clean!"
Kopp paired up on the flop, but the kept Sebok safe for the time being. When the turn and river came and , Seebs locked up a huge double up, working his way up close to 700,000 now.
Don't worry about Kopp, he's still sitting on 4.1 million.