Racener Speeds Ahead
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John Racener raised to 5,600 from middle position, and Ludovic Lacay and Brian Rast both called to see a three-handed flop.
It came down 
, and the table checked to Rast. He fired out 13,500 only to see Racener check-raise to 60,000 straight. That folded Lacay, but Rast called to see a turn card.
It was the 
, and Racener led out with a covering all-in shove. Rast called all in for 68,000, and he was at risk of elimination as the cards were turned up:
Racener: 
Rast: 
It was two pair for Rast that had him in the lead, but Racener had a myriad of river outs for the knockout. The 
that filled out the board was one of those out, and his aces up deal a crushing blow to Rast, running him out of the room.
Racener is all the way up to 360,000 after that big pot.
Vanessa Selbst fired out a pot-sized bet of 48,000 with Roger Teska making the call.
for the second-nut flush. Selbst is in trouble with just 22,000 as Teska is now up to 160,000.
and Dwan led out with a bet of 50,000 which was enough to take it down.
, and chip leader Antonio Paino put him to the test. With close to 150,000 chips in the middle of the table, the cards were on their backs:
(second pair, flush draw, gusthot straight draw)
to improve Dwan to the king-high straight and put him one card from a double up. Paino needed to fill up or catch a jack to eliminate "durrrr", but the river 
was a safe blank, doubling the dangerous Dwan.
for top set which was good as Aiken mucked. Heimiller is up to 150,000.
and Baker fired again for 23,200 which was enough to take it down as Paino released. Baker is up to 78,000 with Paino still our chip leader on 352,000.
, Leandro Pimentel fired a bet of 8,500 before Nick Schulman re-raised to 34,000. Pimentel re-raised all in and Schulman called off his last chips.
turn and