After a series of raises and reraises before the flop, Nail Aliyev sprung his trap and got his opponent to commit his remaining 44,600. His opponent showed down confidently but Aliyev revealed for a commanding lead.
The dealer spread a final board of and Aliyev claimed the huge pot with his pocket rockets.
A player opened to 5,300 from the cutoff and James Kerr cut out a raise to 15,000 and change and slid it into the middle from the small. The player in the big blind folded and so did the original raiser - flashing an before doing so.
Joshua Mancuso returned from his dinner break and looked down to find in the hole. An opponent acting in front of him pushed his stack of 21,000 forward for an all-in move and Mancuso made the quick call. The at risk player tabled and found himself dominated.
After the final board rolled out and Mancuso's ace-king high was good enough to claim the pot.
As we wandered over to Kristopher Cunz's table, we found him calling two all-ins with . It wasn't all that bad news for him when Georgios Kapalas flipped up the same hand -- -- but they were both in trouble against Robert Perillo's .
However, the flop came down to put Cunz and Kapalas in the lead. The turn and river ran out , and with Perillio the shortest of the three stacks, he was eliminated while Cunz and Kapalas chopped the pot.
We received another piece of news from Jeff "The Messenger" Blenkarn - he's just picked up the scalp of American pro Justin "Boosted J" Smith.
"He was sitting right here," Blenkarn recalled to us, patting the empty chair next to him. "He got it all in with , I called with and the board bricks out. I'm now on 66,000!"