Isaac Haxton opened to 500,000 in middle position and Michael Jozoff three-bet to 2,910,000 in the hijack before Viktor Blom four-bet to 4,135,000. Haxton folded and Jozoff called off for 1,200,000 more.
Michael Jozoff: K♦Q♦
Viktor Blom: A♣K♣
Jozoff was dominated and couldn't pull ahead as the board ran out 10♠J♥7♥J♣10♣ to mark Jozoff's elimination in ninth place.
Chris Hunichen made it 400,000 to go with the 10♦9♦ and Jeremy Ausmus three-bet to 1,000,000 with the K♠Q♥, which Hunichen called. On the 8♥8♠5♣ flop, Hunichen opted to check and Ausmus continued for 850,000 to take down the pot uncontested.
Chance Kornuth raised to 1,900,000 with 405,000 behind and Chris Hunichen called with the A♠Q♥ from two seats over. Aleksejs Ponakovs then pushed all-in out of the cutoff and Kornuth called all-in, Hunichen folded.
Chance Kornuth: 9♥9♣
Aleksejs Ponakovs: A♥K♦
The flip went to Kornuth as he improved to a set on the 10♠9♦5♣K♥J♥ runout to deliver a near triple up, while Hunichen would have made broadway.
Daniel Aharoni opened to 400,000 with A♥K♥ and was called only by Aleksejs Ponakovs in the big blind with the 5♠4♣. The 10♦10♠9♥ flop was checked by both players to see the 6♥ on the turn. Ponakovs opted to check again and so did Aharoni with the two overcards and ace-high flush draw.
They also checked the 10♣ river and Aharoni won the pot.
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Michael Jozoff pushed all-in for 1,680,000 as the shortest stack on the table and Viktor Blom in the big blind mulled it over with the largest stack at his disposal.
Michael Jozoff: A♦K♥
Viktor Blom: 2♠2♣
The board ran out 10♥10♦5♠K♦J♣ and Jozoff leaped back into contention.
The PokerGO stream has recommenced and around one hour will be played prior to the dinner break. Blinds are 100,000/ 200,000 with a big blind ante of 200,000. All PokerNews updates will be published according to the delayed live stream action.
There are 20:48 minutes left in the level and the redraw of the unofficial final table can be found below.
Seat
Player
Country
Chip Count
Big Blinds
1
Isaac Haxton
United States
3,135,000
16
2
Daniel Aharoni
United States
4,900,000
25
3
Michael Jozoff
United States
1,680,000
8
4
Chance Kornuth
United States
1,905,000
10
5
Viktor Blom
Sweden
17,835,000
89
6
Chris Hunichen
United States
14,355,000
72
7
Justin Saliba
United States
5,155,000
26
8
Aleksejs Ponakovs
Latvia
10,250,000
51
9
Jeremy Ausmus
United States
7,980,000
40
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Chris Hunichen made it 400,000 from the hijack and Justin Bonomo called from the big blind.
On the 9♦Q♦A♠ flop, Bonomo check-called a bet of 250,000 from Hunichen.
The 4♠ hit the turn and Bonomo checked again, then Hunichen fired another bet of 800,000. Bonomo called.
When the 2♠ landed on the river, Bonomo checked for a third time and Hunichen shoved all in. Bonomo had just over 2,000,000 and made a very quick call.
Hunichen flipped K♠J♠ for the nut flush, and Bonomo had Q♠10♠ for the second nut flush.
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