Tai Nguyen limped the button for 20,000 and James Epner raised it up to 70,000 from the small blind. Taylor Paur folded his big blind and Nguyen made the call to go heads up to the flop: . Epner bet out 100,000 and got a rather quick call from Nguyen.
The turn came the and Epner announced all in. After some counting they agreed it was 329,000 and that send Nguyen into the tank. After about a minute Nguyen said "Ok, let's go. I call." Epner showed and was far in front of Nguyen's . Wel, since the title of this post is that Epner is eliminated, you might have guessed by now what the river was. Indeed, the popped up and Epner made his way off the stage.
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We've started the tournament again. Blinds are still 10,000/20,000 with 3,000 ante. There's still 23 minutes on the clock. After that we'll have the regular 20 minute break.
Hand #4: DJ MacKinnon raises it up to 45,000 under-the-gun plus two, but folds as Roy Weiss makes it 170,000 from the big blind.
Hand #5: Taylor Paur raises to 40,000 from middle position and takes down the blinds and antes.
Hand #6: Tai Nguyen makes it 60,000 from under-the-gun plus one and wins the blinds and antes.
Hand #7: Taylor Paur raises it up to 40,000 from under-the-gun plus one. DJ MacKinnon calls from the big blind but he check-folds to Paur's 32,000 continuation-bet on .
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Hand #13: Action folded around to Taylor Paur in the cutoff who raised to 40,000. Ryan Austin pushed all in from the cutoff for his final 565,000, as did Kyle Cartwright from the button for 382,000. Both blinds folded and Paur made the call.
Paur:
Austin:
Cartwright:
There was a lot of excitement as some paint came on the flop but it was for nothing. Paur's aces were still ahead and the turn sealed the fate of Austin and Cartwright. The river was irrelevant as Paur soars over two million and eliminates two players in the process.
. Epner bet out 100,000 and got a rather quick call from Nguyen.
and Epner announced all in. After some counting they agreed it was 329,000 and that send Nguyen into the tank. After about a minute Nguyen said "Ok, let's go. I call." Epner showed 
and was far in front of Nguyen's 
. Wel, since the title of this post is that Epner is eliminated, you might have guessed by now what the river was. Indeed, the 
popped up and Epner made his way off the stage.
while Weiss had a sweat, his aces hold for the double up.
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flop but it was for nothing. Paur's aces were still ahead and the