Mark Radoja got all his chips in the middle preflop against John Dallaire.
Radoja:
Dallaire:
Radoja was behind and needed help from the board in order to double up. The gave him two pair, aces and nines, which was good enough to win the pot and preserve his tournament life.
Mark Radoja got his remaining chips in preflop against Ryan Wince, who had the larger of the two stacks by a fair margin.
Radoja:
Wince:
Wince had the preflop advantage, and Radoja needed help in order to double up. The board ran out , which left Radoja drawing dead on the turn against Wince's ten-high straight, and he was eliminated.
Rick Alvarado got his stack of approximately 200,000 chips into the middle before the flop against Marek Ohnisko.
Alvarado:
Ohnisko:
Ohnisko had the preflop advantage, and Alvarado needed help from the deck to double up. The board ran out to give him trip kings, which was good enough to win the pot.
Igor Sharaskin got all his chips in the pot before the flop against Ryan Wince, who had the larger of the two stacks by a fair margin.
Sharaskin:
Wince:
Wince had the preflop advantage and Sharaskin needed help from the deck in order to double up. The board ran out to give Sharaskin nines full of deuces to win the pot.
Wing Wong opened the action and John Dallaire called.
The flop was and when Dallaire bet he got the rest of his chips in against the at risk Wong.
Wing Wong:
John Dallaire:
“I was hoping you didn’t have a king.” said Dallaire as Wong was staring at a vital double up.
The Turn card changed nothing but the river gave Dallaire a full house and crushed Wongs hopes, sending him home short of the unofficial final table of 10.
Rick Alvarado got all his chips in the middle against Marek Ohnisko on a flop of .
Alvarado:
Ohnisko:
Alavarado had a diamond flush draw and a pair of kings, but was up against Ohnisko's flopped nut straight and needed to improve in order to preserve his tournament life. However, neither the turn nor river was any help to Alvarado and he was eliminated.