The Benyamine/Guetti match has turned into a shove-fest, and David Benyamine was the one shoving the last hand. He put his last 168,000 into the middle from the button, and Anthony Guetti squeezed out to make the call. Benyamine was in good shape to double, turning up with his tournament life on the line.
The board ran , and that win pulls Benyamine back into the lead. He's got 336,000 now, overtaking Guetti for the first time in a long time.
David Benyamine raised preflop from the big blind and Anthony Guetti moved all in. Benyamine made the call holding pocket eights and Guetti tabled . The board ran shipping the pot to Guetti.
Benyamine was left with 96,000 and stuck it all in on the very next hand. Benyamine had and Guetti held . The board paird Guetti right away falling . Guetti advanced to the round of 16.
After the players saw a flop of , Jonathan Jaffe bet 17,000 and Jake Cody bumped it up to 35,000. Jaffe made the call and the two both checked when the turn came . The dealer revealed the on the river and Cody bet 37,300 chips. After a brief pause, Jaffe declared himself all-in only to see Cody insta-call. Jaffe looked glum as he said, "just a jack," and Cody turned over his to capture his opponent's opening stack of 200,000.
Anthony Guetti and Richard Lyndaker have both taken their full 600,000 chips up front. Only one other player took all three bullets at once, and that was Mikhail Smirnov.
Jonathan Jaffe and Jake Cody both started with just the initial 200,000, but we just recently saw both men cash in one of their lammers for another stack to bring the match to 400,000 apiece.
Other than that, the only real news is that there's a pretty sizable rail assembled in front of the Dwan/Hansen match.
We picked up the action on the turn as the board showed . Kunimaro Kojo checked, and David Paredes put out a bet of 18,000 into a pot of about that much. Kojo snuck in a check-raise to 55,000, and Paredes eventually made the call to see the last card.
It was the , and Kojo stacked up 120,000 chips and slid them forward. That sent Paredes' cards into the muck rather quickly, and he's down to about 125,000 from his first bullet.
We mentioned that Mikhail Smirnov took the full 600,000 chips to start the match, but Nikolay Evdakov is chipping away at that tower. He has 152,400 chips left when he got his money in with . We'll be honest and say we were too late to catch Smirnov's hand, because it was quickly mucked after the board. Whatever Smirnov had, Evdakov could beat it, and he's worked his 200,000 chips into 304,800 now.
When we caught up with the action the board read and the pot contained approximately 65,000 chips. Jake Cody slid out a bet of 104,500 and Jonathan Jaffe studied his man before quietly saying "All-In." This clearly surprised Cody and he released his hand, offering a "nice bet" to his opponent as Jaffe collected the pot. The two players have utilized both of their 200,000 add-ons and the match is now nearly even.
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to make the call. Benyamine was in good shape to double, turning up 
with his tournament life on the line.
, and that win pulls Benyamine back into the lead. He's got 336,000 now, overtaking Guetti for the first time in a long time.
. The board ran 
shipping the pot to Guetti.
and Guetti held 
. The board paird Guetti right away falling 
. Guetti advanced to the round of 16.
, Jonathan Jaffe bet 17,000 and Jake Cody bumped it up to 35,000. Jaffe made the call and the two both checked when the turn came 
. The dealer revealed the 
. Kunimaro Kojo checked, and David Paredes put out a bet of 18,000 into a pot of about that much. Kojo snuck in a check-raise to 55,000, and Paredes eventually made the call to see the last card.
, and Kojo stacked up 120,000 chips and slid them forward. That sent Paredes' cards into the muck rather quickly, and he's down to about 125,000 from his first bullet.
