Preflop Amit Makhija made a raise to 9,000. One to his left Benjamin Dobson made a reraise to 21,000. Action folded back around to Makhija who moved all in. Dobson made a snap call and it was off to the races.
Makhija:
Dobson:
The board was a swift executioner for Makhija as it rolled out , giving Dobson two pair and eliminating Makhija from the tournament in 48th place.
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Jonathan Taylor raised to 12,000 from middle position and found callers in Benjamin Dobson from the cutoff and the player on the button. Kelly Kim, the small blind went all in. After assessing the stacks of the other callers, Taylor put out a bet of 100,000 causing them to fold.
Kelly Kim:
Jonathan Taylor:
The board came giving Taylor the win and eliminating the former November Niner.
As the short stack Zack Whitney has basically one play and that is to move all in. He has done so three times, that we have seen, in the last 30 minutes. We caught this hand between him and Damien Lhommeau. It was a blind versus blind scenario with Whitney shoving followed by the call of Lhommeau.
Whitney:
Lhommeau:
The board came giving Whitney his miracle river and a double up. While he is still short, he has a bit more wiggle room now.
We came upon the action with three players all in preflop. Darren Oremba's was in the lead against Patrick Kubat's and another player's . The board came and Oremba's queens hold eliminating one player and stacking chips from both.
It was Whitney and Lhommeau at it again with all most equal stacks. Whitney shoved with and Lhommeau snap called with . The board didn't provide any help to Whitney this time as it ran out and Lhommeau took the pot.