Albert Garver raised to 1,000,000 from early position, and Cesar Flores three-bet to 2,000,000 from the hijack. Jeffrey Valenti four-bet jammed for 4,500,000 for the action to fold back to Garver who called for the 3,100,000 he had behind. Flores looked at them and made the call, having both opponents covered.
Albert Garver: 6♣6♦
Jeffrey Valenti: 8♥8♦
Cesar Flores: A♠A♥
The flop came 3♦5♠K♠ for Flores to stay ahead with his pocket aces.
The turn was the 6♥ for Garver to take the lead as he hit a set of sixes but the river completed the board with the 8♠ for Valenti to leap ahead and claim the pot with a set of eights.
The whole table gasped, and so did the rail. Flores took his phone out after paying up to document this for his own rail at home.
Sebastian Park opened to 925,000 in the hijack. Siarhei Chudapal then three-bet to 2,800,000 in the cutoff, putting about half his stack in the middle.
Justin Fawcett sat waiting in the big blind and four-bet all in once the action reached him, covering both his opponents. Park called off his stack of 6,025,000, prompting Chudapal to fold what he claimed to be a pocket pair.
Sebastian Park: A♥K♣
Justin Fawcett: Q♠Q♥
Fawcett won the important flip when the 4♣9♠2♣3♥7♦ runout brought no aces or kings, eliminating Park early on Day 3.
Pedro Claus shoved from under the gun for 1,725,000 for Kheang Tang to make the call with the bigger stack from the hijack while the rest of the table folded.
Pedro Claus: K♦2♣
Kheang Tang: K♠K♣
The board ran out 8♥10♦Q♦10♥4♦ for Tang to hold with the pocket kings for two pair and an elimination to his name.
He got up from his chair to tell that he had won a hand just before when he held pocket queens and his opponent had ace-jack. The board ran out with an ace on the flop, a jack on the turn but a queen appeared on the river.
Adam Croffut had put in his final 75,000 chips from early position. Andrew Tang then rejammed for about 4,300,000 from the hijack, and Stavros Petychakis called off his stack of 3,400,000 in the hijack.
Table chipleader Ramaswamy Pyloore was in the small blind, calling to put the other three players at risk of elimination.
Adam Croffut: A♦6♥
Stavros Petychakis: A♠10♥
Andrew Tang: K♠Q♠
Ramaswamy Pyloore: J♠J♥
Tang shot ahead on the 10♦3♦Q♥ flop with his pair of queens. The 5♠ turn had Croffut drawing dead, while the J♦ river provided Pyloore with one of two outs to take down the pot and knock out all three players, much to the amazement of the many onlookers that had gathered.
Thanh Duong got his stack of about 5,500,000 in from the small blind against Ryan Leng in the big blind, who had him covered.
Thanh Duong: A♠J♣
Ryan Leng: 7♦7♣
Duong flopped best on 2♣A♦5♥, but Leng retaliated on the 7♠ turn as his set left Duong without any outs. The 2♦ river was rendered meaningless as Duong was sent to the rail.
