On a board of , Paul Fisher was all in and at risk for his last roughly 40,000 against Ioannis Kontonatsios. The hands were turned over to find that Fisher was behind but drawing live.
Fisher:
Kontonatsios:
Unfortunately for Fisher, the river was the , failing to improve his hand and giving Kontonatsios trip tens for the win. Fisher was eliminated from play while Kontonatsios boosted his stack to 145,000.
Alex Millar opened for a raise to 5,200 and got called, and then Tony Baggio shoved all in for 47,000. Millar put him at risk, while the other player folded. Millar was ahead with , but Baggio flopped two pair with and turned Millar dead when a blank hit.
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Mike Leah opened to 6,000 from the cutoff and one to his left, Andrew Wayman three-bet to 15,000. The blinds both folded and after a brief moment of hesitation, Leah grabbed his chips that were already in the pot and tossed them over to Wayman.
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Ioannis Kontonatsios held pocket jacks against the shorter-stacked Rep Porter's pocket eights. The board ran out clean for Kontonatsios, allowing his jacks to hold up and send Porter to the rail.
Andre Akkari opened for 6,000 and was flatted by Chance Kornuth. It was folded to Connor Drinan put in a raise to 22,500 out of the small blind.
Akkari gathered some chips and carefully put out a four-bet to 62,000 leading to an immediate fold from Kornuth. Drinan thought it over for a bit and let his hand go.