Phuoc Nguyen opened to 16,000 from middle position and Brenton Duda moved all in for his remaining 56,000 from the cutoff.
Nguyen called and covered Duda.
Brenton Duda: A♠K♠
Phuoc Nguyen: A♣K♣
Both were sitting comfortably until the 3♣2♥2♣ flop, which brought in Nguyen the flush draw.
Nguyen was calling for a "Club" on the 4♥ turn.
The flush came in for Nguyen on the 10♣ river, sending Duda home.
Jianheng Liu raised under the gun to 15,000. Daniel Lawrence moved all in with 163,000 in chips. Liu called.
Daniel Lawrence: A♣K♦
Jianheng Liu: K♠K♣
Liu was sitting pretty with his kings, until the final car hit the table in a runout of 8♠2♣J♦J♠A♦, putting a serious dent in his stack.
Christopher Dupuy limped from the small bling and James Barnett defended the big blind.
The J♠K♦10♥ flop saw Dupuy bet 6,000 and Barnett called.
The 5♥ was turned and Dupuy checked. Barnett bet 14,000 and Dupuy called.
Both checked to showdown on the K♣ river.
Dupuy showed Q♥10♣ for a pair of tens, and Barnett mucked.
Level: 16
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Players are on a 20-minute break. Only 69 players till the stone bubble.
Three players were engaged on a main pot of around 220,000 and a side pot of 6,000 on a board of 9♣6♥K♥2♠. Charles Phillips was all-in for the main pot, which left Andre Cohen and Dimitrios Gkatzas to fight for a side pot.
Cohen and Gkatzas checked the river 5♦ taking all three players to showdown.
Phillips tabled J♥9♥ for a pair of nines and a flush draw on the flop, Cohen hit top pair on the turn with K♠Q♦ and Gkatzas caught two pair on the river with K♣5♣.
Phillips quietly left the table as Cohen got out of his chair visibly frustrated with the turn of events where he missed having scooped a huge pot because of the river card. Gkatzas just scooped both the main and side pots without saying anything.
Mario Gonzalez opened with a 10,000 bet in cutoff and got called by the button Christian Jordanich, small blind Kelly Andrews, and Kengo Sakurai in the big blind.
The flop dropped 7♦A♥2♦. After action was passed to him, Gonzalez continued with another 10,000 and only got Andrews to call.
The turn 4♥ and river A♦ were checked by both players. Andrews turned over J♥7♥ prompting Gonzales to throw his hand to the muck pile.
David Vago raised to 10,000 under the gun, Adrian Martinez put the rest of his 34,000 chip stack into the middle, Vago called.
Adrian Martinez: K♥Q♠
David Vago: Q♦10♦
The board ran out 4♥8♠6♠K♦8♥, and Martinez doubled.
Kathy Saraf moved all in for her remaining 60,000 from middle position and got a single call from Adron Countryman in the small blind who just covered her.
Kathy Saraf: K♥Q♦
Adron Countryman: A♠K♠
The 2♠5♣9♦ flop saw Countryman stay ahead, and the A♣ turn and 8♦ river didn't save Saraf.
Larry James started the hand with a raise on the button to 12,000. Berkeley Yuan popped the bet to 38,000 from the small blind. After big blind Jorge Yranek threw all of his 44,000 chips in, James folded.
Larry James: 9♥9♣
Jorge Yranek: K♥10♠
The flop came 4♠3♥3♣, then there was a pause in the runout, because the dealer accidentally dropped a few cards off the top of the deck into the try in front of her.
Though the players all believed she replaced them as they were, the tournament director instructed the dealer to shuffle all of the remaining live cards before continuing the hand.
The river and turn of J♣5♠ didn't improve Yuan's hand, giving Yranek the double-up.
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