Action was picked up with the Bruno Furth, at risk for 750,000, tabling his cards against Ryan Thoresen as the board read 6♣3♦4♥9♣6♦.
Bruno Furth: A♠10♥6♥4♦2♥
Ryan Thoresen: A♦K♦J♠6♠5♣
Furth had flopped the nut-low and two pair, and in the runout he rivered a full house. Thoresen's three sixes and six-five low cost him three-quarters of a million chips.
Scott Lamm opened the action with a raise to 45,000 from the cutoff. Casey Hayes announced "pot" from the big blind, and Lamm called the 145,000 bet. Hayes then jammed the 8♦3♥Q♠ flop and Lamm snap-called for his remaining 160,000.
Scott Lamm: A♦Q♣J♣3♠2♦
Casey Hayes: A♣A♥K♦6♣4♣
Lamm had completely outflopped Hayes' aces, with two pair and a nut low draw the hand to beat. However, the case A♠ turn was the absolute worst card in the deck for Lamm, as he was drawing to a chop with no way of cracking his opponent's set. The 7♠ turn sealed the deal, as Hayes' seven-low pipped Lamm's rivered eight.
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Level: 21
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Steven Lindlof, who was in middle position, raised to 50,000. Ben Yu called from the button.
The flop hit 6♥J♣J♥. Lindlof bet another 50,000 and Yu called again.
The 3♣ came on the turn. This time Lindlof shoved all-in with his remaining 175,000 chips.
Yu studied the potential call for three-fourths of his stack for a significant time before folding his hand.
Action was caught with cutoff Tony Cousineau and big blind Casey Hayes heads up to a flop of A♥2♥3♥ Both players got all in on the flop, with Hayes covering Cousineau's stack of 115,000.
Tony Cousineau: A♣Q♦J♦J♠2♣
Casey Hayes: K♠K♥9♦7♥3♦
With neither player holding a low, Cousineau's top and bottom pair were ahead of Hayes' nut flush draw. The turn 3♠ propelled Hayes into the lead, only needing to avoid a boat, but the J♥ river meant Cousineau's two pair counted for nothing, with jacks full of threes the hand that would get him over the line. "That's an ESPN runout", commented another player at the table.
The action was picked up with the river left to come on a board of 5♦10♦J♥9♣.
Ryan Thoresen and Jay Kerbel, two of the chip leaders with more than 1,000,000 chips each, had just pushed all of their chips into the pot with Kerbel's tournament life resting on the outcome.
Jay Kerbel: A♠10♣8♦7♥2♠
Ryan Thoresen: A♥K♥Q♥2♥2♣
With one card to come, Thoresen had a king-high straight against Kerbel's bottom straight to the jack.
Thoresen asked, "Do you have the flush draw?"
Alas, Kerbel did not. So the 6♦ on the river was meaningless and Thoresen scooped the biggest pot of the tournament thus far.
Phillip Hui got his remaining 200,000 into the middle preflop, with Thang Tran also all in to put him at risk.
Phillip Hui: A♠K♥10♦2♦2♣
Thang Tran: A♣A♦8♦7♦3♦
Hui was tasked with cracking aces, and the 9♦3♠10♣ flop gave him a few avenues to do so.
The 4♦ turn also gave him the nut low draw, but Tran welcomed the 9♠ river with open arms to scoop and send his opponent packing.
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