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Patrick Khalafian eliminated in 25th place
Nicholas Heather opened to 31,000 from under the gun only to have Patrick Khalafian move all in for 155,000.
With the action on Gerald Domagalski on the button, he made the call as Heather folded.
Khalafian:
Domagalski:
The flop of was a sweat for both players with Khalafian needing to fade an ace, ten or running cards for a flush or counter-feit to stay alive.
The on the turn was not what Khalafian was looking for as he now had an additional nine outs to fade, and when the dealer burned and turned the on the river to complete Domagalski's flush, Khalafian headed to the rail.
Action has slowed considerably now that players have a little deeper stacks. Flops have become a rare occurence where a preflop raise is usually enough to take down the pot.
Kyung Han opened to 28,000 from late position only to have Daniel Carter three-bet to 75,000.
With the action on David Baker in the cutoff he took his allotted time before sliding his whole stack - albeit 2,000 that were capping his cards - into the middle to amount to a raise of 220,000.
The blinds and Han quickly passed before Carter sat there counting his own stack while occasionally shuffling chips and rearranging the pyramid formation he had it in.
Eventually two minutes went by and Carter folded his hand to see Baker rake in the pot and move to over 335,000 in chips.
Daniel Carter raised to 27,000 in late position and was called by Vahan Sudzhyan in the big blind. When the flop came , Sudzhyan checked and Carter bet 25,000.
Sudzhyan reraised 55,000 more and Carter, who had the bigger stack, went all in. Sudzhyan, who had invested half his chips, quickly called and turned over . Carter showed .
"Wrong read," Sudzhyan chastized himself. The turn was the and the river the . Sudzhyan was eliminated while Carter's stack increased to 750,000.
The Tournament Director has just announced that the plan for today is to possibly play through to a winner instead of a final table as per the original plan.
Playing through however will only occur if we can reach the final table in substantial time - which as per the Tournament Director - is by about 9:00 or 10:00pm PST.
Table 305
Seat 1: Vahan Sudzhyan
Seat 2: Jonathan Tare
Seat 3: Dalton Dawkins
Seat 4: Matthew Hankins
Seat 5: Steven Gee
Seat 6: Daniel Duong
Seat 7: Kyung Han
Seat 8: Daniel Carter
Seat 9: David Baker
Table 306
Seat 1: Clint Schafer
Seat 2: Christopher Brammer
Seat 3: Jeffrey Gross
Seat 4: Mostafa Jamasbi
Seat 5: Daniel Thomas
Seat 6: Jasper Wetemans
Seat 7: Matthew Vance
Seat 8: Carla Castelo
Seat 9: Jeremy Defrande
Table 307
Seat 1: Patrick Khalafian
Seat 2: Jon Jiles
Seat 3: Marios Savvides
Seat 4: Gerald Domagalski
Seat 5: David Hong
Seat 6: Jared Hamby
Seat 7: Nicholas Heather
Seat 8: Mats Gavatin
Seat 9: Andrew Walker
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was a sweat for both players with Khalafian needing to fade an ace, ten or running cards for a flush or counter-feit to stay alive.
on the turn was not what Khalafian was looking for as he now had an additional nine outs to fade, and when the dealer burned and turned the 
on the river to complete Domagalski's flush, Khalafian headed to the rail.
to put Walker on the rail in 26th place for a $13,524 payday as Domagalksi climbs to 525,000 in chips.
, Sudzhyan checked and Carter bet 25,000.
. Carter showed 
.
and the river the 
to put Olson on the rail and leave the final twenty-seven slightly richer.