With the all-in buttons in front of Eric Blair in the big blind and Kevin Stevens in the under-the-gun position, Jacob Ferro reluctantly folded from the hijack. Stevens was at risk for 545,000 as Blair had him covered.
Kevin Stevens:
Eric Blair :
The board ran out for the whole table to roar as it seemed like Ferro had folded jacks. Stevens doubled up with the pocket pair of queens to get him back to an above average stack.
Niall Farrell raised to 40,000 from under the gun and the action folded to Sung Joo Hyun in the big blind who three-bet to 130,000. Farrell considered it for a bit before he made the call.
The flop came and Hyun bet 70,000, which Farrell called again.
The turn was the and Hyun opted to check this time. Farrell tanked for a while and then opted to shove with the bigger stack. Hyun looked at his own stack, contemplated for about 20 seconds, then gave it up.
There was around 600,000 in the pot and it was heads up with Adrian Mateos in the cutoff and Brock Wilson on the button. We picked up action after the turn when four cards were in the middle, and both players checked to get a river card, which was the .
Staring his opponent down intensely, Mateos checked it over to Wilson, and never let his gaze wander away.
Wilson counted his stack a few times before using both hands to slowly push it all forward, announcing all in.
Mateos thought on it for a few minutes, and eventually folded.
"Bluff?", Mateos asked Wilson.
Wilson didn't respond, and dragged in a monster pot.
Toby Boas looked to have min-raised from the small blind for Stephen Song to three-bet jam for around 560,000 from the big blind. Boas snap-called with the bigger stack.
Stephen Song:
Toby Boas:
The board ran out to not help Song with the lower pocket pair and he was eliminated.
Action was picked up after and Maxime Parys in the small blind checked it to Kitty Kuo, who bet 85,000.
Parys called, and they were heads up to the last card.
The river was the , and Parys checked again to Kuo. She thought for less than a minute before announcing all in, which Parys was ready for, and he nearly beat her in the pot.
Kuo was holding for top two pair, but Parys had been trapping with . After flopping top set, he had made a full house on the river and doubled up in the first level of Day 3.