A player in middle position moved all in for 2,600,000 and Yevhen Pavlenko reshoved from the hijack. The rest of the table folded and the cards were shown.
Middle Position: A♣8♦
Yevhen Pavlenko: 10♥10♣
Pavlenko was well in the lead preflop, and when the board ran out J♥7♥5♠8♠3♦, it was the tens that held up for Pavlenko to take the pot and send his opponent to the exit.
Level: 32
Blinds: 150,000/300,000
Ante: 300,000
Players have gone on a 60-minute dinner break. The floor will coloring up and racing off the red 5,000 chips in the mean time.
Players will be due back at their seats at approximately 5:40 p.m. local time.
Rafe Aman was seen stacking towers of chips from taking down a large pot a few hands before. The action folded to Aman in the small blind who limped in and Kathy Liebert checked her option in the big blind.
The flop fanned out J♣6♣2♣ and Aman check-called a bet of 300,000 from Liebert. On the 9♥ turn both players checked their options to the 6♥ river.
Aman bet out 900,000 and Liebert went deep in the tank. After over a minute of thought, Liebert folded and the pot was shipped to the new chip leader.
"Did you have a club?" asked Liebert as Aman continued to stack his chips without a response.
A player in late position, raised preflop to 500,000. Action folded to Lucas Tae on the button, who bumped it up to 1,500,000.
The original raiser called and the flop was dealt 4♦K♠10♠.
It was checked to Tae who bet another 1,500,000, and swiftly received a fold.
Joseph Gambino went all for just under 2,000,000 and eventually was called by a player in late position.
Joseph Gambino: A♦Q♦
Late Position K♥J♦
The flop was ideal for Gambino as he binked the A♣8♦6♠ for top pair and the 9♠ on the turn locked up the hand for him as the inconsequential J♥ rolled off.
For many part-time players, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a chance to get away from work and spend some time in Las Vegas playing poker and chasing a bracelet.
One of those part-time bracelet hopefuls is venture capitalist and longtime poker player Chamath Palihapitiya, an early Facebook executive and the founder and CEO of the investment firm Social Capital. After more than a decade off of the WSOP felt, the billionaire returned to the World Series to take his shot at winning a bracelet in Event #29: $100,000 High Roller.
PokerNews caught up with Palihapitiya earlier in the series as he battled in a Day 1 field that included Chance Kornuth, Alex Foxen, Chris Brewer plenty more of the world's top high-roller players.
In a heads-up pot with roughly 1,000,000 in the middle on a flop showing A♥4♣2♠, a player in the big blind checked to Scott Bohlman in early position who bet 400,000. The big blind called and the pair saw the J♣ turn.
The big blind checked again and Bohlman tapped the table to check back. On the Q♦ river the big blind cut out a bet of 800,000 and Bohlman snap-called.
The big blind got caught bluffing and rolled over K♣3♣ for king-high. Bohlman tabled A♣K♠ for top pair to take down the pot.
Level: 31
Blinds: 125,000/250,000
Ante: 250,000
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