Action folded to Erik Hellman who raised to 100,000 from the cutoff. Omar Saeed made it 240,000 to go from the button and the blinds folded. Hellman opted to four-bet to 405,000 and after tanking for about three minutes, Saeed finally decided to call.
The flop came and Hellman continued out for 275,000. Saeed announced that he was all in and Hellman instantly folded his hand. Saeed is now sitting on a stack of 3,150,000.
From under the gun, Russell Thomas raised to 100,000. Play folded to Robert Buckenmayer in the hijack seat and he reraised to 235,000. Things then moved to David Kluchman in the small blind and he reraised to 400,000. Action folded back to Buckenmayer and he made a mistake of thinking he only had to call 65,000 more, not 165,000. He tossed in the 65,000, but the dealer instructed him that he needed to call 100,000 more. He did so and the flop came down .
On the flop, Kluchman led for 500,000 and Buckenmayer made the call to see the pair the board on the turn. Kluchman checked and Buckenmayer took a minute before checking behind.
The river completed the board with the and Kluchman moved all in. Buckenmayer snap-called with turned over the for top full house. Kluchman couldn't believe it.
"Ship it," said Buckenmayer sternly as he stood from his chair.
"Sir, don't say that, it's not nice," commented Amnon Filippi from Seat 9. Buckenmayer sat back down.
Buckenmayer's stack was counted down and he was all in for 1.995 million on the river, creating a massive pot of nearly six million and sending it his way. Kluchman was knocked all the way down to 490,000.
Scott Abrams opened with a raise to 105,000 from early position, and it folded around to Marcia Topp in the cutoff. She checked her cards, moved her ladybug card protector on top of them, then set out the chips to call.
It folded to Robert Corcione in the big blind who reraised to 315,000, and Abrams quickly let his hand go. Topp then pushed her remaining chips into the middle, totaling about 1.5 million, and Corcione quickly called.
Topp:
Corcione:
Topp needed help from the community cards to survive, but they came , and she was eliminated just shy of the final 70.
The action folded to David Kluchman, who open-shoved his last 505,000 from the cutoff seat. Russell Thomas called from the blinds, and the hands were opened.
Kluchman
Thomas
While we were waiting for the ESPN cameras to set up their shots, Kluchman took a small plastic rooster (that he uses as a card protector) and placed it next to his cards.
The dealer finally rapped the table, and spread , giving Kluchman the lead. The on the turn gave Thomas four extra outs to catch up, but the bricked on the river, doubling Kluchman to over a million chips.
"How much for this?" Tristan Clemencon asked Kluchman, pointing to the plastic bird.
Kluchman laughed as he stacked his newfound chips.
On the button, Jan Heitmann raised to 110,000. Roland Israelashvili reraised from the big blind to 270,000 and Heitmann came back with a reraise to 610,000. Israelashvili moved all in and Heitmann called.
Israelashvili showed the and Heitmann the . The board ran out and the two players chopped up the pot with the flush on board.