Craig Timmis reraised the pot to 550,000 preflop and picked up a call by button raiser Sai Ho "LinusLove" Chiu, who then called all-in for the last one and a half blinds after the flop.
Sai Ho "LinusLove" Chiu:
Craig Timmis:
The turn and river runout kept Timmis with queens and fours in the lead.
Ajay "Ross_Geller" Chabra has taken the entire stack of Connor Drinan to send the American pro to the rail in 25th place. Most of the damage was done when Drinan bet the turn and jammed the river with . Chabra check-called both streets with and his nut flush locked up the double. The remaining few blinds vanished shortly after.
The final four tables were barely set when two short stacks clashed in Joao Mathias "12345123456" Baumgarten and "karapepono":
"PgTilt" clashed with [Craig Timmis when they got it in after a flop with As9h8s8d] for "PgTilt" and for Timmis. The turn and river kept the player from India in contention.
Manig Loeser then doubled through Anton "storytellerA" Morgenstern with versus and Morgenstern took an even bigger hit when he doubled Tszfai "WinEasy" Tong with versus . The board brought to keep aces in the lead.
Kosei Ichinose was all-in with a short stack and tabled the from under the gun, he was called by "Blank0DMT" in the big blind with the .
The board came and that was it for the Natural8 ambassador.
Aaron van Blarcum followed him to the rail shortly after. On a flop of , van Blarcum got it in with for a pair and flushdraw only to see Tszfai "WinEasy" Tong look him up holding the for top pair. The turn and river runout gave both players two pair and Tong had the best of it.
The double ups are traded in rapid fashion but there were also two all-in showdowns that reduced the field from 21 to the last 19 contenders and Juha Helppi was responsible for both of them.
First Helppi flopped a boat out of the big blind when the chips went in on the flop against "Blank0DMT" on the button:
"Blank0DMT:
Juha Helppi:
The turn and river brought no help.
And then it was Chirag "Umeshbhai" Sodha who check-called all-in for the last 388,403 on the flop.
Chirag "Umeshbhai" Sodha:
Juha Helppi:
The turn brought no help, nor did the on the river.
Yonathan "ninoboys80" Journo and Anton "storytellerA" Morgenstern both spent quite some time on the top of the leaderboard and it wasn't long ago that Morgenstern had a substantial lead. However that all came to a crashing end in the last few minutes and he ended up at risk against Journo.
Yonathan "ninoboys80" Journo:
Anton "storytellerA" Morgenstern:
On a board of , Journo nailed the straight on the turn.
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