Max Lykov raised to 32,000 from under-the-gun and Alex Smith re-raised to 81,000 from the button. Action folded back to Lykov who went all in for a total of 559,000 and Smith called.
Lykov:
Smith:
The board ran out and Lykov doubled to over a million in chips while Smith was left with just 47,000. Smith was eliminated in a separate hand soon afterward.
Seth Baker had virtually committed himself with a 150,000 bet on a flop against Matthew LaGarde, the latter finally moving all in and Baker shrugging and making the call. LaGarde flipped , ahead but mathematically behind to Baker's . The turn and river made LaGarde a full house though and he eliminated his opponent.
Mickael Morgousky and Ryan Buckholtz, who had similarly sized stacks, got all the chips in the middle preflop with Morgousky's leading Buckholtz's . The board ran out and after all the chips were counted out, Morgousky was the one to double up while Buckholtz was left with a mere 5,000 in chips.
After paying the 2,000 ante, Buckholtz got his remaining 3,000 chips in on the button on the next hand holding and ran into another player's and Buckholtz was eliminated.
Ludovic Sultan moved all in for his last 240,000 preflop with and Matthew Leecy made the call with before Nahabedian Raffi moved all in for 500,000 holding and Leecy again called.
No-one saw any help on the flop or the turn but the on the river sent a huge pot to Leecy and put him into the chip lead as the other two players were eliminated.
William Knuppel was short stacked and got the remainder of his chips in against Harald Olsen.
Knuppel:
Olsen:
The flop put Knuppel into the lead when it came but the on the turn put Olsen ahead again. The on the river sealed the deal and Knupple was sent to the rail.
Douglas MacKinnon raised to 35,000 preflop getting called by Terrance Eischens and [Removed:415] before Jason Vanstrom squeezed all in from the small blind. MacKinnon called all in and Eischens and Doria both folded.
MacKinnon:
Vanstrom:
The board came and MacKinnon picked up a lucky (and big) double up to 900,000.
The remaining 27 players seem to be tightening up a bit as we inch closer and closer to the final table. No major hands have occurred since we hit three tables. The chip counts for every player were updated right as we began play at the final three tables and with a couple players very short stacked, it's likely we'll see some double-ups or bust-outs shortly!
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and Lykov doubled to over a million in chips while Smith was left with just 47,000. Smith was eliminated in a separate hand soon afterward.
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and after all the chips were counted out, Morgousky was the one to double up while Buckholtz was left with a mere 5,000 in chips.
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