Takashi Ogura opened with a raise to 42,000 from middle position, and it folded around to Paul Kerr on the button. Kerr sat with his chin in his hand, and looked over at Ogura from under the brim of his black baseball cap.
"How much?" asked Kerr, pointing at Ogura's stack. He counted and responded "260" -- there was a little more than 260,000 chips, actually, sitting in front of him.
Kerr then tossed out some green and yellow chips, a raise to 129,000. It folded back to Ogura who quickly said he was all in, and Kerr just as quickly called.
Ogura
Kerr
Tough spot for Ogura. He was already standing when the flop came . The turn was the and the river the , and Ogura is out. Kerr moves up over 1 million.
Takashi Ogura opened the pot in early position with a 43,000-chip raise and the action folded to the big blind. In the big blind, Sean Prendiville moved all in for an additional 291,000 chips.
Ogura tanked, and eventually folded. Prendiville is now up to 390,000 chips. Ogura slipped to 350,000 chips.
Raymond Bonavida opened by raising all in for 165,000 from the cutoff, and it folded to Yu Shen in the big blind who made the call. Cards on their backs...
Shen
Bonavida
"Does he have more than me?" asked Bonavida. A count showed Shen had Bonavida covered by just 13,000. "If I lose I'll have a chip and a chair," said Shen.
The board went , and Bonavida is out. Shen, meanwhile, has about 350,000 chips and a chair.
That takes us down to 18 players left, so there will be another redraw now for the final two tables.
On the very next hand after the one in which he eliminated Ognjen Sekularac, Dustin Dorrance-Bowman was again mixing it up.
Daniel Hart had opened with a raise to 33,000, and it folded to Dorrance-Bowman who pushed all in from the small blind.
"Table change, please!" joked Raymond Stuwe in response.
The big blind folded, and Hart made the call for his remaining chips, tabling versus Dorrance-Bowman's . The board came , and in two hands Dorrance-Bowman had scored two knockouts.
"How far did you get?" asked a friend of Johnny Kitchens of him just now over on the rail.
"I'm still in!" he replied. "There are my chips!" he pointed, and both laughed.
Kitchens had just received a penalty for exposing his hand out of turn with action pending, and he was standing over on the rail waiting it out when his friend came by.
Kitchens doesn't seem too bothered by the forced break -- he's sitting with a bit over 700,000 at the moment, which puts him in the upper third of the 21 players remaining.
. The turn was the 
and the river the 
, and Ogura is out. Kerr moves up over 1 million.![[user49729]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
and Moen doubled up, is now up to 510,000 chips. Peters slipped to 470,000.
versus Dorrance-Bowman's 
. The board came 
and Sekularac 
, and Sekularac is out. Dorrance-Bowman moved up to 920,000 on that one.