Taylor Paur and Betrand "ElkY" Grospellier were involved in a pot on a flop of . Paur put out a bet of 2,300 from middle position and Grospellier called from the button.
The turn was the and both players checked. On the river, Paur put out another bet, this time 4,500. Grospellier asked for a count of the bet, then called. Paur flipped over the for a turned set and it was good to take down the pot.
Jean-Pascal Savard and Robert Cheung were all in preflop. Savard had which crushed Cheung's . The board ran out . There was confusion on who had more chips. The supervisor was called over and they counted each stack five times over. At the end it was decided that Savard had Cheung covered by 75 chips and with that Cheung was eliminated. Savard went back up to 59,000.
Sumanth Reddy opened to 1,700 from the hijack seat. In the next seat over Gavin Smith reraised to 3,400. Action folded to the Thiago Nishijima in the big blind who moved all in over the top of Gavin Smith's reraise. Before he could do that though, Reddy made an accidental call of Smith's raise out of turn. Immediately he apologized and pulled back his chips and Nishijima's raise stood.
Reddy ended up folding his hand, but Smith instantly called.
Smith:
Nishijima:
The board came down giving Smith two pair and eliminating Nishijima from the tournament.
"Me and you would've had an epic battle," Reddy told Smith. "I had ."
"I'll tell you one thing," Smith said. "If you called we'd be fighting alright. I would've beat the living s*** out of you."
With that Smith picked up the chip lead at his table.
Travis Roseberry and Zohair Karim were at a river with a decent size pot already at stake. The board read out . Karim bet out a healthy 8,700. This bet was met by a call from Roseberry. Karim sheepishly turned over for a missed straight draw. Roseberry was relieved to see the bluff and showed his for top pair. With that Roseberry went up to 100,000 while Karim went to 58,000.
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier came back from break on a relatively short stack with only about 15,000 chips, and now he's gone. We walked by his table and the players had all spread out a little bit more. ElkY's blonde hair was no where to be found.
Action began on Nick Petrangelo who opened to 1,600. He was called by David Peters in the next seat over. Michael McNeil, Gal Yifrach, and Matt Berkey all called as well.
The flop came and all five players checked. The turn was the and Yifrach opened with a bet of 3,500. Berkey folded. Both Petrangelo and Peters called. McNeil grabbed chips and looked as if he might call, but then folded.
The river was the and Yifrach led again, this time for 5,000. Petrangelo called. Peters took his time and counted out a reraise. He made it 14,000, enough to put Petrangelo all in. Yifrach folded.
After thinking about it for a while and geting a count of the bet, Petrangelo put the rest of his chips in the pot. Petrangelo showed for a full house, but Peters showed for a slightly better full house. With that, Peters now has a massive lead over everyone at his table.
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. Paur put out a bet of 2,300 from middle position and Grospellier called from the button.
and both players checked. On the 
river, Paur put out another bet, this time 4,500. Grospellier asked for a count of the bet, then called. Paur flipped over the 
for a turned set and it was good to take down the pot.
which crushed Cheung's 
. The board ran out 
. There was confusion on who had more chips. The supervisor was called over and they counted each stack five times over. At the end it was decided that Savard had Cheung covered by 75 chips and with that Cheung was eliminated. Savard went back up to 59,000.
giving Smith two pair and eliminating Nishijima from the tournament.
."
. Rellie Sigua called off his lesser stack.
for a missed straight draw. Roseberry was relieved to see the bluff and showed his 
for top pair. With that Roseberry went up to 100,000 while Karim went to 58,000.
