Dylan Linde opened to 51,000 from early position, Maurice Hawkins called from the cutoff and Ambrose Ng three-bet shoved from the big blind for 627,000. Linde tanked for a good three minutes before he called for most of his stack and Hawkins called all in for 117,000 total.
Linde:
Hawkins:
Ng:
The board ran out , giving Hawkins queens and tens to win the main pot to triple up, while Linde won the side pot with a pair of queens to eliminate Ng in 19th place.
Ambrose Ng moved all in for 304,000 total from early position and Maurice Hawkins called out of the small blind. Hawkins was in great shape to deliver the knockout with as Ng held .
The flop came to keep Hawkins in the lead. The turn was the and someone watching the hand behind Hawkins said "it's over."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop," said Hawkins. "Don't you ever say that."
It was as if Hawkins knew the impossible was possible. The river... was the to give Ng the straight.
Kevin Schulz opened to 55,000 from early position, Benjamin Pollak three-bet to 125,000 in the cutoff and Andreas Samuelsson four-bet shipped from the big blind for 588,000. Schulz folded and Pollak tanked for a bit before he called for almost all of his chips as well.
Pollak:
Samuelsson:
The board ran out , no help to Samuelsson, ending his Main Event in 20th place.
Kevin Schulz opened to 55,000 under the gun and was called by only Eugenio Mattar in the cutoff. Schulz continued for 65,000 on the flop, but Mattar wanted to bump it up just a tad for a min-raise. Schulz called, and he check-called bets of the same amount on the turn and river.
Mattar snap-shipped his cards to the muck, and Schulz took the pot down with no showdown.
Jim Collopy opened for a raise and saw Chance Kornuth make it 160,000. Collopy shipped all in for 800,000 and got snap-called by Kornuth holding . Collopy was completely crushed with , and he was drawing dead by the turn as the board ran out .
Maurice Hawkins opened pre-flop for a raise and found one taker out of the blinds in Diego Ventura. The flop came and Ventura would check-call a small Hawkins bet.
The turn ws the and both players checked leading to Ventura betting out 120,000 on the river. Hawkins asked how much the bet was and then made it 200,000 more to go leaving himself with just 55,000 behind.
"Is that all in?" asked Ventura. The dealer told him that it was not.
Ventura folded and Hawkins told him "can't keep getting lucky on me. Good cards will prevail eventually."