Jean Larosiliere raised in the cutoff and Alfonso Amendola shoved from the small blind. Larosiliere tanked up for a while and eventually made the call. He was in some trouble.
Larosiliere:
Amendola:
Board:
Amendola doubled to a respectable 600,000. Larosiliere was left with just about 80,000, or four big blinds.
Sam Capra opened to 55,000 from the cutoff and was called by Viet "Big Papa" Vo in the big blind.
The dealer flopped and Vo checked to Capra who continued for 80,000. Vo check-raised to 190,000 and Capra moved all in.
"Wow," Vo said. "You have anything?"
Capra shrugged the question off and Vo continued to tank.
"Ok," he finally said. "I call."
"Shit!" Capra blurted.
Capra:
Vo:
Vo was too nervous to watch and walked away as the dealer burned and turned the . Capra stood silently trying to will a king or a queen, but it was not to be as the fell on the river.
"Is it over???" Vo shouted from a table away.
Vo was very happy to find out that the hand was indeed over and that he held. Capra shook Vo's hand before exiting the Amazon Room.
"Make sure to call me 'Big Papa,'" Vo yelled at one of our tournament reporters while waving a hat with his nickname printed on it.
The man they call Big Papa has a big stack of 1,900,000 chips.
Jonathan Duhamel raised in the cutoff and Joseph Curcio reraised on the button. Duhamel pushed, Curcio called all in, and after a brief pause for the dealer to register it (Curcio said, "I call," again to make sure) they were on their backs for the chip lead.
Duhamel:
Curcio:
Board:
Curcio doubled to around 1.7 million. Duhamel meanwhile was left with 360,000 or so.
You'd think a Pearljammer might be louder, but Jon Turner has mysteriously and silently disappeared from his table while no-one was looking. Meanwhile Kevin O'Connell has mysteriously increased his stack to 1.2 million. C'est le poker.
We arrived to see the cards being turned over, Alfonso Amendola against Kevin O'Connell again, Amendola all in this time.
Amendola:
O'Connell:
Board:
Amendola clapped in delight and we think said something in Italian as he rivered a full house and doubled to 450,000. O'Connell was left with 650,000. Another player took exception to the talking in Italian and piped up. Amendola claimed he'd been speaking to himself, although the other player pointed out that Amendola had Salvatore Bonavena, also Italian, sitting next to him. All the players had lapsed back into silence when we left the table.
Three players took a flop of including Hungcheng Hung, Vladimir Kochelaevskiy and Sam Capra.
Hung checked to Kochelaevskiy who bet 66,000. Capra called and Hung folded.
The on the turn paired the board, and Kochelaevskiy checked to Capra who moved all in. Kochelaevskiy released his hand and Capra chipped up to 575,000.
The flop read when we arrived; Alfonso Amendola in the hijack had checked to Kevin O'Connell on the button, who bet 75,000. Amendola called, and they saw a turn.
The turn was the and Amendola peeked at his hole cards. "How much you play with?" he asked. O'Connell sighed and counted his stack, and then announced, "Three and a bit." Amendola went all in, O'Connell snap-called, and they turned their cards over.
Amendola:
O'Connell:
River:
O'Connell doubled to near 800,000. Amendola was reduced to just 240,000.
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and Larosiliere was eliminated.
and Vo checked to Capra who continued for 80,000. Vo check-raised to 190,000 and Capra moved all in.
. Capra stood silently trying to will a king or a queen, but it was not to be as the 
turned Duhamel led for 68,000. Porter called.
