Piero Alioto raised before Boivan popped it to 10,000 in the next seat over. Alioto responded with a four-bet shove for 35,000 total. Boivan snap called to send them to a showdown with Alioto at risk.
Piero Alioto: A♠K♦
Thomas Boivin: A♣A♥
Alioto held a premium hand, but Boivan was sitting pretty with the best starting hand in the game.
Alioto was unable to crack Boivan's aces on the 2♥4♠8♦6♣Q♣ runout to be out of contention.
Yuto Misaka raised to 3,500 from the cutoff and was called in the next seat over on the button by Breno Drumond.
The Q♦A♣J♦ flop and the 9♣ turn were met with checks from both players.
Misaka opted to bet 7,000 when the 4♣ river peeled off. Drumond called after some thought and was shown A♠8♠ by Misaka.
Chin Wei Lim opened to 3,000 from middle position and received calls from Daniel Negreanu in the small blind and Tobias Schwecht in the big blind.
All three players checked the A♥7♥10♦ flop leading to the 6♥ turn. Negreanu bet 5,500 and only Lim called. Both remaining players then checked the 3♠ river.
Negreanu had second pair with J♥10♠ but Lim had Q♣10♣ for a pair of tens with a higher kicker to take the pot.
In one of the first couple of hands back from the final break of the day, Mike Matusow kicked things off with a raise to 3,500 from under the gun. Rui Campos responded with a three-bet to 10,500 from the cutoff, before the small blind, Eric Yanovsky, cold four-bet jammed for 83,500.
Matusow quickly got out of the way, but Campos gave it some more thought. After getting confirmation of the bet amount and taking stock of his own stack, he opted to fold.
Yanovsky showed that he had J♠J♦, before Matusow and Campos both shared that they had folded ace-queen.
Level: 9
Blinds: 1,000/1,500
Ante: 1,500
The remaining players are heading for their final break of the day.
Play is expected to resume in 15 minutes at 11:00 p.m. local time.
Daniyal Gheba raised to 2,500 from under the gun and faced a reraise by Hiroyuki Noda to 7,500 from the hijack. Stephen Chidwick opted to four-bet to 16,000. Gheba mucked his hand, but Noda put in a call to send them to a flop heads-up.
Noda checked the 8♠2♥6♣ flop before Chidwick bet 7,500. Noda called.
Both players checked down on the 9♦ turn and the 8♣ river.
Chidwick showed the best hand with 10♥10♦ as Noda yielded the pot.
Zhou Lin kicked the action off with a raise to 2,400 from under the gun. Justin Tran responded by putting in a three-bet from the button to 7,500. Action folded back to Lin, who made the call.
The dealer spread a 7♠7♣4♥ flop, and Lin opted to check-raise all in for 24,900, over Tran's continuation-bet of 5,000. Tran called immediately, and the cards were turned over.
Zhou Lin: K♣J♣
Justin Tran: 10♠10♣
Lin picked up some extra help on the 8♣ turn, giving him a flush draw, and that was the help he needed as the river 6♣ completed his flush.
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