Action began with Allyn Jaffrey Shulman who made it 14,000 before the flop. "Miami" John Cernuto called in position.
The flop came down and Shulman continued with a bet of 20,000. Cernuto called without much thought.
The turn was the and very quickly Shulman announced pot, which ended up being 78,000. Cernuto went deep into the tank and counted his chips multiple times to try to figure out how much he would have behind if he called and lost, as well as how much exactly Shulman had behind, which was 32,000.
He was in the tank for nearly 5 minutes before he finally slid in the chips for a call. The river fell the and Shulman quickly went all in, and Cernuto called.
Shulman tabled which was good for a pair of aces and the nut low. Cernuto showed his for a pair of kings and the same low. With that, Cernuto received just a quarter of the pot and he was cut down while Shulman stacked her newly found chips. That pot pushed Shulman closer to the chip lead and put her inside the top five chip stacks in the room.
Brian Hacker opened the button to 10,000 only to have Michael Sanders three-bet the pot to 34,000 from the small. Gavin Smith then moved all in for 39,500 from the big blind and both Hacker and Sanders called.
The flop fell and Sanders moved all in for 22,500 and Hacker called.
Smith:
Hacker:
Sanders:
The turn and river landed the and and Smith was sent to the rail as Sanders scooped a huge pot to move to 165,000 while Hacker slipped to 70,000.
Zhen Cai opened to 10,500 and both Dylan Linde and Joe Hachem called from the button and big blind.
The flop of saw Cai continue for 18,500, and once Linde folded, Hachem made the call as the fell on the turn. Hachem checked, and after nearly two minutes, Cai pushed out a stack of chips amounting to 46,000 to put Hachem all in.
Hachem went deep into the tank for nearly three minutes before eventually laying his hand down.
"Have anything?"
"A pair and a draw!" responded Cai as he collected the pot to move to 315,000 in chips.
We didn't catch the action but we know that John DeCruz couldn't best John O'Shea in a recent pot and DeCruz was eliminated from the tournament.
As he was leaving the table, DeCruz told the table that this was his first tournament ever and that he read his first poker book on the way over during his plane ride.
He wished everyone the best of luck and went to the payout desk to collect his winnings.