A blind-vs.-blind battle involving John Shipley, playing from the small blind, had built a modest pot by the river, at which point the board showed 
. Shipley checked, his opponent bet 20,000, then Shipley raised to 45,000, and with some anguish his opponent let his hand go.
Shipley has 243,000.
Patrick Poirier just entered the Amazon Room, taking his seat at Table 360. Before he could even un-bag his chips, he opened to 5,200 in early position. A player in middle position called, and another player on the button shoved for 32,600. Poirier reached into his plastic bag, and pulled out enough orange T5,000 chips to call. The other player folded, and the hands were tabled.
Poirier: 
Button: 
Poirier had his opponent crushed, and held as the board ran 
. Poirier is now up to around 770,000 chips - we'll have a more accurate count when he actually gets them on the table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
760,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
Blair Hinkle opened to 5,000 from the button, and he called a three-bet to 14,000 from the big blind. It would end of being the last hand of the day for one of them.
The flop came out , and the big blind checked. Hinkle bet 12,000, the big blind called, and the dropped on fourth street. The big blind leapt into action now, shoving all in for a pot-sized bet. Hinkle snap-called with 
, and the big blind's 
had him drawing stone dead.
With that knockout, Hinkle leapfrogs all the way up to 435,000.
We missed the action of the hand but we saw Christian Harder sending almost half of his stack across the table. The board was 
and his opponent moved all in for 111,200.
Harder is sitting on 133,000 after having around 240,000 and tweeted that he had the nut flush draw.
From early position, Don Yang Yan raised to 4,500 from early position and the action folded around to the player on the button who called, before Yan check-called the button's bet of 5,000 on the flop of 
.
Yan checked again on the turn of the , but folded after the button threw out a bet worth 10,000. You win some, you lose some.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
488,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
Nicolas Fierro raised to 6,000 from under the gun and action folded to the small blind. That player reraised for his entire stack and was all in for 35,100. Fierro called.
Fierro: 
Small Blind:
The flop, turn and river ran out 
to give Fierro the win in this flip. He's up to half a million in chips now.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
500,000
14,000
|
14,000 |
We just came into another huge pot where we got our second player over 700,000.
Poirier raised from under the gun to 12,500 and and a player in middle position re-raised to 26,000. Poirier made the call and the two saw the 
flop. Poirier bet out 37,000 and his opponent just called.
The turn came the and Poirier check-called a bet of 38,000 from the middle position player. The river was the 
and Poirier checked. The middle position player cut out a bet of 99,000 and after a minute or so, Poirier went all in for close to 185,000 more. Eventually the middle position player called and Poirier showed His opponent instantly mucked but flipped over a 
in the process. Later he did announce he had 
and was only beaten on the river.
Either way, Poirier took down the enormous pot and now has around 730,000. He is only our second player over 700,000 so far
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
730,000 |
Oh boy.
Shaun Deeb is probably on suicide watch right after this hand that finished the end of the last level. There had been an opening raise to 4,600 before Shaun Deeb made it 15,600 to go. Max Heinzelmann then cold four-bet to 31,300 which forced the original raiser to fold.
Deeb, however, wasn't going anywhere and put out a five-bet to 68,600 with about 170,000 or so behind but Heinzelmann didn't take much time in moving all in and Deeb snap-called quicker than a speeding cobra.
Heinzelmann: 
Deeb:
Heinzelmann was in hot water but there was a glimmer of hope when the flop came 
, the on the turn made some split outs possible but the 
on the river was greeted with audible groans from most of the audience as the German escaped with a pot worth over 400,000.
Deep has just ten big blinds left whereas Heinzelman, who only turned 21 just over a week ago, now has a stack with which he can really bully this feature table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
424,000 | |
|
20,000
191,800
|
191,800 |
|
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The cards are back in the air! We'll now be playing one hour of Level 13 before the remaining players are sent on a two-hour dinner break.
