Level: 14
Limits: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 0
Level: 14
Limits: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 0
The remaining 48 players have been sent into a scheduled 10-minute break. No longer in contention is Owais Ahmed, who had been a short stack for an extended period and never built up enough momentum according to George Wolff. After the next level, the scheduled 60-minute dinner break will take place.
Christopher Stephan raised from early position and was three-bet by Robert Yass, the player to his immediate left. Stephan called and the dealer put out a flop of K♣10♣5♦.
Stephan check-called a bet from Yass and the dealer burned and turned the K♦. Stephan again check-called.
The river came the 8♦ and this time Stephan lead out. After a short deliberation, Yass put in the call and Stephan tabled A♠9♠6♦4♦ for a flush. Yass mucked.
Another four players have been eliminated as of recently and among them was also Daniel Zhu. All-in with a short stack on a three-way flop of Q♠9♦5♠, he was up against Zachary Freeman and Yuri Dzivielevski. Freeman check-called bets by Dzivielevski on the flop as well as the A♥ turn to then check-fold the 9♣ river.
Dzivielevski revealed his Q♥Q♦4♦2♣ for queens full of nines and Zhu tossed his cards into the muck.
"That was a big turn for me," Freeman mentioned in table chat and later added "flush draw and deuce three".
"It was a big turn for me also, four deuce," Dzivielevski replied as he raked in the pot.
Jyri Merivirta was all-in before the flop in a hand that included Owais Ahmed and Steve Chanthabouasy.
Jyri Merivirta: Q♥10♣6♠Xx
Steve Chanthabouasy: A♣9♣8♠7♠
Owais Ahmed: A♦6♥4♣3♥
The board ran out J♣A♠6♦2♠5♠, giving Chanthabouasy a flush for the high and Ahmed a sixty-five for the low, ending the day for Merivirta.
Robert Campbell checked the K♠Q♦9♠10♠ turn and Zachary Freeman did so as well. The 8♣ river was then check-folded by Campbell and Freeman won the pot.
One hand later, Sam Farha raised and Daniel Zhu three-bet for Farha to call. They checked the K♣6♦4♦ flop and Farha bet the 5♥ turn, Zhu called. They checked the 5♣ river again and Farha won the high pot with A♦Q♠J♥4♥, as Zhu had the A♠J♠8♦3♥ for the low.
One hand later, Jose Paz-Gutierrez was all-in before the flop with Pascal Leyo and Campbell both having three bets in. Campbell bet the Q♣J♠J♦ flop and Leyo called. The Aussie then reluctantly check-called bets by Leyo on the 3♦ turn and 8♠ river.
Leyo tabled the A♥A♦9♠6♠ to scoop, as the 5♥4♣3♣2♥ of Paz-Gutierrez had bricked it all and Campbell also flashed and mucked the cards.
The action was four ways to the flop between Connor Drinan, Yong Wang, Johannes Becker and Phil Hellmuth, with Hellmuth all-in before the flop.
Becker would control the action as both Drinan and Wang check-called three streets worth of bets from Becker to create a side pot, with a final board of 6♥Q♥8♥9♥8♠.
Hellmuth: K♠Q♣J♣10♣
Drinan: A♠6♦4♦2♣
Wang: A♣5♠5♣2♦
Becker: K♥K♣J♥J♠
No low hand was possible, so Becker would win a sizeable pot with a king-high flush, eliminating the sixteen-time bracelet winner.
Igor Zektser was already all-in for the last 10,000 while Pascal Leyo in the cutoff and Steve Chanthabouasy in the small blind played a side pot. By the time the turn showed K♠10♠2♦10♥, Chanthabouasy bet and Leyo tank-folded.
Igor Zektser: A♠7♥7♠5♠
Steve Chanthabouasy: A♥10♦6♥2♣
The river was the Q♣ and Zektser, who had already been drawing dead, was sent to the rail.
On a three-way flop of 5♥4♠4♣, John Hennigan checked and Alan Sternberg bet. Van Law called and Hennigan stuck around. That led them to the 7♥ turn on which Hennigan check-folded to a bet by Sternberg and the call of Law.
Last but not least, the 2♣ fell on the river and Sternberg bet once more. Law grinned, checked his cards again and folded.
It folded around Yong Wang on the button who made it two-bets to go. Phill Hellmuth called the initial raise from the small blind, but Conner Drinan re-raised from the big blind, giving Wang the opportunity to four-bet, which he did. Hellmuth pushed his remaining chips into the middle and Drinan also called.
The board ran out A♣8♦7♠3♠8♠ and Wang would call three streets worth of bets from Drinan, before shoving his cards face down into the muck.
Hellmuth: Q♦Q♣7♣4♣
Drinan: A♥8♥7♦4♠
Wang: XxXxXxXx
Drinan would take the high with a full house, eights full of aces and Hellmuth would take the low to stay alive.