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Dario Sammartino raised the button to 6,500 and Thomas Boivin defended his big blind.
Both checked to the river on the K♣2♣Q♠3♥7♠ runout before Boivin bet the pot for 13,000. Sammartino instantly called.
Boivin showed the winner with Q♥9♣, as Sammartino mucked Q♣4♠.
Richard Green raised to 8,000 on the button, and Kevin Rabichow called in the big blind.
Rabichow check-called a bet of 5,000 on a Q♥A♠8♠ flop, but surrendered on the 3♣ turn when Green barrelled for 18,500.
Richard Green completed from the button and Kevin Rabichow checked his option.
The flop dropped 2♦5♠4♦ and action went check, check. The turn K♠ was peeled and Rabichow check-called Green's 7,500 bet.
Finally, on the river 5♦, Rabichow fired 27,500 which was enough to make Green fold.
With 10♦10♣, Doug Polk made it 8,000 to go from the big blind and Nikolai Mamut called out of the big blind holding K♥2♣.
Both knuckled the A♠6♠K♦ flop to see the 7♠ land on the turn. Two more checks came and Mamut fired 16,000 when he saw the 7♦ complete the board. Polk tossed his cards away.
Nikolai Mamut opened to 8,000 from the button, and called when Doug Polk three-bet to 20,000.
Polk continued for 13,000 on the 2♣K♥10♥ flop, which Mamut called.
There was no slowing down on the 4♣ turn, as Polk moved all in, and Mamut called off his stack of 44,100.
Nikolai Mamut: K♦J♥ 
Doug Polk: 9♥5♥
Polk was looking for any heart to end the match, but the 9♠ was unforthcoming, instead giving Mamut a double up.
After trailing Harvey Castro for much of the contest, Brandon Wilson took down two sizable pots in a matter of three hands to take the lead.
The first hand was joined with Wilson all-in on the river with the board reading 7♦3♠A♣Q♣5♦.
He earned the full double-up to more than 270,000 chips with A♠J♥.
Two hands later, Wilson bet 7,000 on a flop of 2♦6♠8♦. Castro raised to 19,000, and Wilson called.
The players checked the turn, with action coming after the river completed the board K♣10♠.
Castro bet 80,000 chips. Wilson studied through a couple time banks before announcing an all-in.
Castro threw in his cards.
Level: 19
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 0
Stoyan Madanzhiev raised to 6,000 on the button and Faraz Jaka defended from the big blind.
Jaka checked on the A♠10♦A♣ flop and Madanzhiev continued for 3,000. Jaka just called.
The turn was the 2♣ and Jaka check-called another bet from Madanzhiev, this time for 12,000.
The 7♠ on the river checked through and Jaka won the pot with J♠10♥ for a pair of tens. Madanzhiev mucked 8♠8♦.
The action was joined as Phil Ivey moved all in preflop for 206,000, and Shota Nakanishi snap-called to put him at risk.
Phil Ivey: 7♠7♥
Shota Nakanishi: Q♥Q♦
Nakanishi looked set to end the match and progress to the next round, but the deck had other ideas as Ivey flopped a set on the 4♠7♦10♦.
Ivey improved to quads on the 7♣ turn, taking an insurmountable lead.
To add salt to the wound, Nakanishi improved to a full house on the Q♣ river, but it was too little, too late.
With 4♠3♦, Doug Polk limped the button and Nikolai Mamut checked from the big blind holding Q♠10♠.
A flop of K♥K♣9♥ appeared and both checked to see the 8♣ on the turn. Another round of checks came and the J♦ joined the board.
Mamut checked for the last time and Polk bet 6,000. Mamut sprang to life with a check-jam for 40,000, and Polk let go of his hand.
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