We arrived at Table 442 just in time to see the dealer sweeping up the cards of two all in players. One of them held , and we didn't catch the other hand, but neither could beat David Chiu's .
Sam Grafton got involved in an all-in prefrlp confrontation with Dan Murariu. Murariu had the bigger stack, and turned over . Grafton held . The board ran out , and Murariu won the pot, eliminating Grafton.
Balint Pusztai shoved his last 29,500 from the button after action folded to him. Sergey Tikhonov called from the big blind.
Tikhonov:
Pusztai:
A flop of meant Pusztai would make a straight if Tikhonov found a third five. Sure enough, the turn was the , and Pusztai just needed to fade the board pairing. A was fine by him, and he doubled up with the rags.
Chris DeMaci raised to 6,000 from early position, and then Florencio Bunal three-bet all in. DeMaci called instantly and turned over . Bunal held , and he would need help. The board did not provide it, coming , bustin Bunal from the tournament and bringing DeMaci up to to 170,000 in chips.