Daniels Cracks Aces to Eliminate Laplante, Take Chip Lead
Level 13
: 2,000/4,000, 4,000 ante
Jake Daniels opened to 8,000 in early position and Ryan Laplante flat-called in middle position, while the player in the small blind also came along.
The small blind checked on the flop of 
and Daniels continued with a bet of 9,000. Laplante raised to 32,000 and the small blind quickly folded. Daniels re-raised all-in and Laplante snap-called with a smaller stack.
Jake Daniels: 
Ryan Laplante: 
Laplante's aces had been out-flopped by the set of tens of Daniels and he let out a sigh of frustration as the board ran out 
to send him to the rail.
Daniels has had a hot Day 2c and is now up to nearly 700,000 to give him the biggest stack in the room.
"The rich get richer," someone at the table commented as Daniels raked in the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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690,000
105,000
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105,000 |
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Busted | |
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and Schulman had checked it over to his opponent on the button, who fired out a bet of 5,300. Schulman then went for a check-raise jam all-in and forced his opponent to fold.
for queen-high and Kempton tabled 
and Freddy Deeb was all-in for around 130,000. Jeremy Joseph made the call for the 54,000 he had left, while a third player folded.
to keep Kornuth in the lead with his nines and the 
on the turn didn't change things. However, the 
and expressed bewilderment over what Polychronopoulos was considering calling with.
