Markus Gonsalves open-shoved for 124,000 on the button, and Tom Marchese called in the big blind.
Gonsalves:
Marchese:
The board came , and Gonsalves doubled with a straight.
Brandon Meyers opened to 27,000 from under the gun, Darryll Fish three-bet in the cutoff, and Meyers moved all in for 219,000. Fish called.
Meyers:
Fish:
Meyers won the race when the board rolled out , doubling to 470,000 chips.
Kristijonas Andrulis doubled once again on one of the last hands before break. He three-bet shoved for 140,000 over an open to 24,000 from Jamie Armstrong, and the action folded back to Armstrong who called.
Andrulis:
Armstrong:
Andrulis had Armstrong dominated, and held when the flop, turn, and river produced .
After a long lull in action, Chris DeMaci raised to 26,000 in the cutoff, Darryll Fish three-bet jammed for effectively 230,000 in the big blind, and DeMaci called.
DeMaci:
Fish:
Fish flopped a king when the dealer fanned , and eliminated DeMaci when the turn and river came , respectively.
Kristijonas Andrulis raised to 24,000 from early position, and David Peters three-bet shoved for 180,000 from the cutoff. It's the second time Peters has three-bet jammed since doubling the Lithuanian, and once again it got through.
Tom Marchese raised to 27,000 from early position, and three players called including Dan Kelly (cutoff), Jared Hamby (button), and Markus Gonsalves (big blind). The flop came , Gonsalves checked, and Marchese continued for 52,000. Only Gonsalves called.
The turn was the , Gonsalves checked again, and Marchese fired another 80,000. Gonsalves folded, and Marchese picked up the pot.
This time, the Lithuanian open-shoved for 111,000 from under the gun, and David Peters re-shoved in the hijack seat. The rest of the players folded.
Andrulis:
Peters:
Andrulis was up against the ropes and in terrible shape, and the flop improved his hand but slightly. With running pair cards higher than an eight, he could counterfeit Peters' pair, and with running spades he could make a flush. The was the best non-ace card in the deck, keeping both of his backdoor draws alive, and the spiked on the river to give him a pair of aces.
He doubled to 254,000 chips, while Peters dropped down to 135,000.
Griffin Benger raised to 24,000 in the hijack seat, Ismael Bojang called out of the big blind, and Bojang check-shoved over a 27,000-chip continuation bet from Benger on a flop of . Benger called all in for 150,000, and was behind.
Benger:
Bojang:
Bojang had flopped top two, and Benger needed a queen or running straight/flush cards to catch up. The on the turn eliminated both his straight and flush chances, and the on the river ended his tournament.
The Canadian will earn $19,193 for his 16th-place finish, while Bojang now has 510,000 chips.
When he was left with just a few big blinds on break, Kristijonas Andrulis rushed over to late register for Event #4: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed). He promptly busted before rushing back over to his event, where he ran his stack up and actually made the two table redraw.
He earned $3,369 by making the redraw, so he was kind of freerolling in Event #4.
Rafal Michalowski raised to 26,000 in first position, Brian Rast moved all in for 142,000 in the hijack seat, and Michalowski called.
Michalowski:
Rast:
Rast was ahead, but the flop smacked Michalowski right in the face. He had an open-ended straight flush draw, but the two ended up chopping the pot when the turn () and river () both paired the board.
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