Safiya Umerova jammed from an early position for 500,000 and Charlemagne Benjamin was the only caller.
Safiya Umerova: J♠J♥
Charlemagne Benjamin: A♦Q♥
Umerova was looking good until the 3♠7♣Q♠ flop, as Benjamin improved to a pair of queens.
The 5♣ turn and 4♣ river didn't change anything, and Umerova was eliminated with around 125 players remaining.
Joaquin Lestani moved all in from early position for 715,000 to put himself at risk and Jonathon Sparks reshoved in the cutoff to isolate.
Joaquin Lestani: A♦A♣
Jonathon Sparks: Q♥Q♠
Sparks drilled a queen on the 5♠Q♣4♣ flop to pull ahead in the hand and improved to quads when the board ran out 2♠, Q♦.
Chester Mead opened from an early position for 550,000 and Venkata Tayi called for his remaining 300,000.
Venkata Tayi: A♦K♠
Chester Mead: A♠J♠
Tayi was ahead until the 3♣5♦J♥ flop as Mead picked up top pair.
The 4♦ turn and 10♥ river didn't save Tayi, and he was eliminated from the tournament.
The hand was underway with Siarhei Chudapal betting 900,000 on a completed board of 6♦4♦J♠10♦6♠ with a pot of around 2,000,000. Action was on his heads-up opponent, Joseph Hernon who was deep in thought considering his options.
He finally decided to go all-in for 1,295,000. Chudapal snap-called.
Chudapal showed 4♣4♥ for fours full of sixes. Hernon, then, turned over his 10♥10♠ for tens full of sixes, outdrawing Chudapal for a better full house on the turn.
Action picked up on the turn with a sizable pot brewing between Kimon Fountoukidis in the small blind and Chester Mead in middle position.
With about 1,500,000 in the middle, Fountoukidis moved all in for 1,105,000, prompting Mead to go into the tank.
Mead eventually made the call with Q♥Q♦ and saw the bad news when Fountoukidis tabled K♠K♦.
The river landed the J♠ and the pot was pushed Fountoukidis' way.
Masbah Ben Baba from the cutoff and Keith Romer from the small blind clashed in an all-in pot preflop, and cards were on their backs.
Keith Romer: J♦J♠
Masbah Ben Baba: 6♠6♣
Romer's jacks defeated Ben Baba's sixes when the board ran out 7♦2♣K♠8♣9♣.
Romer was hardly done stacking his chips when he found himself involved in an all-in pot this time against Hesham Ayoub. Ayoub jammed for 540,000 from middle position, and Romer called from the button.
Hesham Ayoub: Q♥J♥
Keith Romer: A♣K♣
Romer hit an ace on the 6♦10♦A♠ flop, and looked primed for a knockout when the 8♦ turn flipped over. However, the K♦ river gave Ayoub the straight to defeat Romer.
Level: 25
Blinds: 30,000/60,000
Ante: 60,000
Joseph Couden opened for 1,500,000 from the cutoff putting Ran Yi effectively all-in with a call. All remaining players folded leaving the two to head to showdown.
Ran Yi: 10♥10♠
Joey Couden: 5♣5♥
The flop came Q♣A♦2♣ maintaining Yi's lead with tens. The runout K♣4♦ didn't help Couden at all, securing Yi with a much-needed double up.
Action went heads-up to a flop of 4♠K♠K♦ in a hand between Sean Hansen who was under the gun and Jesus Ortiz Calderon in the big blind.
Hansen check-called a bet of 75,000, bringing the J♠ turn where he moved all in for 500,000.
Hansen had 385,000 back and went into the tank before tossing his cards into the muck.
After the hand, Hansen mentioned that he had folded pocket aces.
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