Almada called his opponents jam all-in heads up with A♣4♥, and it held up on a 8♥2♦8♣K♠5♥ flop.
This secured his place in Day 2, taking through 250,000 chips.
Almada called his opponents jam all-in heads up with A♣4♥, and it held up on a 8♥2♦8♣K♠5♥ flop.
This secured his place in Day 2, taking through 250,000 chips.
Eric Winkie had his opponent covered heads up when they went all in.
Winkie had Q♣10♦ which won on a 5♥9♠10♣4♣A♦ runout, progressing him into tomorrow's Day 2.
David Wade all the way from Las Vegas has made it to Day 2 with a slight chip advantage as his table was one of the few who held 10 players.
Wade recalled his winning hand for PokerNews:
All the action was preflop as the button moved his chips in for about 26,000 and Wade made the call.
Button: Kx4x
David Wade: A♣J♣
The board came out with Jx2x5x9x6x and Wade's pair of jacks held for the win.
Nikita Kuznetsov went against his opponent heads up with 6♣2♠ versus his opponents J♦7♠.
The runout went in Kuznetsov's favor as the 4♠10♦5♣K♣3♣ board gave him a straight and he got to seal up his chips for tomorrow's Day 2.
Tommy Nguyen raised on the button to 5,500 and Nick Palma three-bet to 5,500. Nguyen made the call. The flop brought the 6♠6♦7♥ and both players checked it.
On the turn 5♣ Nguyen put out 14,000 after Palma checked. Palma made the call.
Both players checked the river J♥ and Nguyen turned over 8♥8♣ and Palma turned over K♦6♥ for the trips.
Level: 12
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 3,000
Santiago Nadal, went all in preflop against his opponent heads-up.
Opponent: Q♣Q♥
Santiago Nadal: 9♥9♠
Nadal ran hot on the 6♥9♣4♣ flop, and the A♠ turn and 5♣ river secured him the bag.
The two players that battled it out heads-up shared some table talk and the opponent congratulated Nadal saying he "played well". Nadal responded stating "I thought it would be heads up me and you".
Picking up the action on the turn of a board of 7♦2♥3♠2♣ Matthew Davis put some pressure on the short stack of Kyle Mizell and bet enough to put Mizell at risk of elimination. Mizell quickly made the call.
Kyle Mizell: A♠A♣
Matthew Davis: J♥3♣
The river was the K♥ and Mizell doubled up with two pair.