The fourth round of payouts see the following nine all earn themselves a $15,814 payday.
46th - James Mackey
47th - John Dolan
48th - Luke Staudenmaier
49th - Don Todd
50th - Brian Sechrist
51st - Matt Giannetti
52nd - Sachin Modi
53rd - Patricio Jimenez
54th - Will Molson
Nicholas Blumenthal raised from the cutoff seat to 18,000 and JC Tran called from the big blind to see the flop come down . Tran checked and Blumenthal bet 15,000. Tran made the call.
The turn card was the and Tran checked again. This time, Blumenthal checked behind to see the river card fall the .
On the river, Tran fired 36,000 into Blumenthal. After a minute, Blumenthal made the call, but mucked his hand when the was revealed from Tran's hand for a straight.
From under the gun, Dmitry Gromov raised to 17,000. Maria Ho was in the next spot and reraised all in for 74,000. Gromov thought about it for a short bit when action got back to him, but folded in the end to allow Ho to scoop the pot.
Tony Ahn opened to 18,000 from the button only to have Allen Bari three-bet his big blind to 51,000. With the action back on Ahn, he moved all in for roughly 340,000 and Bari made the call.
Bari:
Ahn:
The board ran out to see Ahn hit the rail as Bari moves to 680,000 in chips.
Jonathan Durand opened for 20,000 from middle position and Michael Hahn re-raised to 46,000 from the cutoff. Action folded back to Durand, who four-bet to 90,000 and change. Hahn tanked for a bit, but landed on a fold.
"Nice Bluff," Hahn said.
Durand let out a laugh and flipped two aces face up.
Catching the back action of a hand involving Brian Lemke and Jonathan Little, we found Lemke pushing all in following a series of preflop raises as Little made the call.
Lemke:
Little:
The flop gave the 2009 champion of this very event outs, and when the spiked on the turn he was ensured a double unless the case ace fell.
Fortunately for Lemke, the fell on the river to see his 382,000-chip stack double through to over 770,000 as Little slips to 260,000 in chips.