Satoshi Tanaka of Team Savakinas moved all-in from early postion on the short stack of 310,000 and was called by Dustin Wills of Team LaBranche in the big blind.
Satoshi Tanaka: A♥7♥
Dustin Wills: 5♥2♥
Tanaka had hearts locked up and after the J♥A♦9♣A♠2♣ runout, Team Savakinas would double again, keeping hope alive in the tag team event.
As players moved from another feature table, a three-way all in and call occured between Justin Pechie of Team Pechie, David Williams of Team Williams and Satoshi Tanaka of Team Savakinas.
Justin Pechie: 8♠8♦
David Williams: A♣Q♥
Satoshi Tanaka: A♥K♣
The board came 2♦7♥6♣A♠Q♠ to change the situation on the river with one elimination and one triple up.
Team Pechie took the ninth position.
Ramon Kropmanns of Team Kropmanns opened in early position to 160,000 and John Ventre of Team Ventre called in middle position as well as Carlos Inukai of Team Inukai in the big blind.
On the flop 8♦10♣Q♣, John Ventre took the lead with a 325,000 bet. Inukai folded and Kropmanns moved all in for 1,200,000. Ventre quickly called.
Ramon Kropmanns: Q♦J♣
John Ventre: A♦Q♥
The turn K♠ and the river 7♥ put an end to the Brazilian team in this Tag Team event.
Roberto Valdez of Team Evans raised to 120,000 from early position and was three-bet by Vincent Moscati of Team Moscati to 330,000, with Valdez making the call.
Both players would check the 2♣4♣K♥ flop and Valdez check-called a bet of 220,000 on the 8♥ turn.
Valdez checked the 6♦ river, Moscati bet out 580,000 and Valdez made the fold.
In another hand involving Team Valdez, Roberto Valdez raised to 175,000 from the small blind and was called by Ramon Kropmanns of Team Kropmanns in the big blind.
Valdez bet out 110,000 on a 3♥4♦Q♣ and was called by Kropmanns.
Valdez now slowed down with a check and Kropmanns put out a bet of 180,000 which was called. Both players checked the K♠ river and Valdez showed down 8♦4♣ for two pair to take the pot.
In the next hand, Valdez raised to 125,000 from the button and was called by a player from Team Savakinas in the big blind.
The 4♥4♣9♦ flop checked through, as did the 2♥ turn. Valdez bet 220,000 on the river 6♥ and was called by Team Savakinas, with Valdez showing down K♣9♠ and Team Savakinas mucking.
Action was on a Jx10x3x flop and all chips went in the middle between a member of Team Cosgrove in middle position and a member of Team Mocasti in big blind.
Team Cosgrove: A♣10♠
Team Mocasti: J♥3♥
The turn and the river didn't change anything and Team Cosgrove was eliminated.