David Benyamine: / /
Tom Schneider: / /
Benjamin Scholl: / Fold
After David Benyamine brought it in and Tom Schneider completed, Benjamin Scholl completed. Two calls followed and then two checks on fourth put action on Schneider. He bet, both his opponents called and then Benyamine took the lead with a pair of sixes on fifth. He bet, Schneider raised and Scholl got out of the way. Benyamine only had 3,000 back and called off with a pair of sixes and an open-ended straight draw.
That draw didn't come in, but Benyamine's two pair on sixth gave him the lead over Schneider's sevens. Seventh street was a blank for both players and Benyamine doubled through.
David Benyamine had the bring-in and Adam Friedman completed with Konstantin Puchkov making the call along with Benyamine. Friedman fired out on fourth with both players calling before Puchkov bet out 30,000 on fifth. Benyamine folded but Friedman raised with Puchkov making the call before leading on sixth. Friedman called, and after a check from Puchkov, he bet out 30,000 with Puchkov making the call.
Alex Dovzhenko: / /
David Benyamine: / /
Tom Shcneider: / /
After Konstantin Puchkov brought it in with the , Alex Dovzhenko completed with the and David Benyamine called. Tom Schneider then raised with his ace, Puchkov folded and Dovzhenko called off for 27,000 total. Benyamine made the call and then proceeded to call bets on both fourth and fifth from Schneider.
Both players ended up checking sixth and then Benyamine check-called a bet on seventh. Schneider tabled two pair to scoop the side pot, and then he split the main as Dovzhenko showed an 8-7-4-2-A low.
Greg Mueller opened the hi-jack to 30,000 and both David Benyamine and Viatcheslav Ortynskiy made the call from the blinds.
Mueller continued for 15,000 on the flop before Benyamine check-raised to 30,000. Ortynskiy folded, as did Mueller and Benyamine moved up to 155,000 in chips after flashing his .
Konstantin Puchkov opened the action for 30,000 and Alex Dovzhenko three-bet to 45,000, leaving himself just 3,000 behind. Benjamin Scholl called from the big blind, Puchkov came along and then those two players checked the flop. Dovzhenko bet his last 3,000 and Scholl went to check-raise to 15,000.
Greg Mueller asked if such a raise was legal as he had checked and Dovzhenko's shove wasn't much. Adam Friedman assured him that it was, but then Tom Schneider chimed in and said he didn't think so. Eventually the tournament floor, Robbie Thompson, was called and ruled that in fact such a check-raise was not allowed; as such, Scholl just called and then Puchkov did the same.
After the dealer burned and turned the , Scholl bet 30,000 and Puchkov folded. Dovzhenko turned over the for a pair of nines, but it was no good as Scholl held the for a set. The river failed to help Dovzhenko and he hit the rail as the final table bubble boy.
The final eight players are heading on a 15-minute break while the Tournament Director prepares the introductions and we get the official final table chip counts.
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for a flush to scoop the pot and climb over 700,000 in chips.
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Fold
(folded on fifth)
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, Alex Dovzhenko completed with the 
for a pair of nines, but it was no good as Scholl held the