Dan Gates was in the hijack and raised to 6,500 and the small blind three-bet all in for 15,000 and Gates made the call.
Hijack: K♥Q♠ 
Dan Gates: Q♠Q♣
The board was 4♥A♣4♠2♦A♥ and Gates won a small victory with his two pair.
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According to Kelly Bang, "Cockroaches are hard to get rid of", after she doubled up on the following hand versus a late position player who had raised and Bang was down to her last 2,500.
Kelly Bang: A♥J♠
Hijack: K♠Q♣
The board ran out as 5♦2♣J♣9♠4♠ and Bang's two pair was golden for a small double. Bang has a long way to go in order to avoid elimination but it may have been the first step.
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Charles Saatjian moved all of his chips in from the cutoff for 32,500, Chris Moen was in the big blind and queried if Saatjian was just stealing and the table laughed and talked about how patient Saatjian had been so far. Moen made the call.
Charles Saatjian: A♠Q♦
Chris Moen: A♦8♥
The board ran clean for Saatjian with K♣6♦9♦10♦K♥ and the queen kicker of Saatjian played for the win.
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Or Nezer approached PokerNews to tell us how he got a large portion of his chips.
Nezer raised to 7,500 from the small blind and the big blind called.
Nezar bet 4,000 on the rainbow flop of Kx6x3x. The big blind called and they headed to the turn.
The turn was the Ax. Nezer fired a second barrel of 8,500 and once again, his opponent made the call.
The river came a board-pairing 3x, which didn't bring in any flush draws. Nezer moved all in for 30,000 and his opponent snap called.
Nezer said he had to turn over his Qx5x for queen-high expecting to lose. However, to his astonishment, his opponent had called with Jx9x for just jack-high. With that, Nezer busted his opponent and moved over the 200,000 chip mark.
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Masa Morita opened from the cutoff to 6,000 and got a call from the player on the button. The player in the big blind made it 31,000. When action was back to Morita, they thought for a while and then went all in for 68,000. The button thought for a moment before folding, while the big blind called after getting the count.
Masa Morita: A♥Q♦
Big Blind: A♦3♦
The flop came A♠K♠8♦ and Morita was still ahead. It wasn’t going to be easy, however, as the 2♦ rolled off on the turn to give his opponent a flush draw.
The river 6♠ was kinder and kept the visibly happy and relieved Morita in the game with a nice double-up.
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Jan-Frederik Van Overschee all the way from Belgium faced a raise of 6,000 from a late position player and made the move all in for 25,000 and received a call.
Late position: A♠7♦
Jan-Frederik Van Overschee: J♥J♣
The board was 10♥7♠8♠5♥Q♥ and Van Overschee won with his pair of jacks.
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All players are on a 30-minute break. Chips will be colored up and 6,033 players remain.
