James Wiese raised in middle position, Nadar Kakhmazov three-bet the pot (96,000) near the button, and the action folded back to Wiese. He re-potted, Kakhmazov moved all in for 430,000 or so, and Wiese called.
Wiese:
Kakhmazov:
The flop fell , giving Wiese a flush draw to go along with his pocket aces, and Wiese's hand held up as the turn and river came , respectively. Kakhmazov hit the rail in 24th place, earning $26,124, while Wiese is back up to 1.27 million chips.
Daniel Alaei raised to 27,000 on the button, [Removed:146] three-bet the pot (93,000) out of the small blind, leaving just 90,000 or so behind, and Alaei called. The flop fell , Guerfi immediately went all in, and Alaei called.
Guerfi:
Alaei:
Alaei's bottom two pair was ahead, and he improved to a full house when the turned, leaving Guerfi drawing dead. The completed the board, and Alaei now sits with 1.95 million chips.
James Wiese raised to 35,000 from middle position, Tom Marchese called on the button, and Alexey Rybin called out of the small blind. The flop fell , Rybin and Wiese checked, and Marchese fired out 55,000. Only Rybin called.
The turn was the , Rybin checked again, and Marchese tossed out 95,000. Rybin announced that he was all in (the pot was 421,000), and Marchese folded.
Further proof of the wild, swingy nature of pot-limit Omaha was provided in a big three-way all-in hand that just developed between Jared Bleznick (small blind), Joseph Cheong (middle position), and Yevgeniy Timoshenko (cutoff).
Preflop action between the trio saw Cheong committing his entire stack of around 300,000, Timoshenko likewise all in for a little less than that, and Bleznick having both players covered.
Bleznick:
Cheong:
Timoshenko:
The dealer delivered the community cards swiftly, and as they came , then , then , all of those diamonds added up to a winning ace-high flush for Bleznick and spelled the end of the road for both Timoshenko and Cheong — the second double-knockout since the redraw to three tables.
As Cheong had a little more than Timoshenko to start the hand, he takes 21st place while Timoshenko ends in 22nd, although both earn the same reward of $26,124 for their finishes.
Preflop action between Morten Stenheim and Johannes Strassman ended with Stenheim nodding and calling his remaining chips, and continuing to nod further as he saw his opponent's hand and recognized he was behind.
Stenheim had and was saying "aces" even before Strassmann tabled his . The board came , bringing no improvement to Stenheim's hand and sending the Norwegian out in 20th place.
Nineteen players remain, meaning one more elimination and they'll be redrawing to the final two nine-handed tables.
When we arrived at the table, Mihails Morozovs' hand was being scooped into the muck, and his entire stack was being pushed towards Oleksii Kovalchuk. We caught with two diamonds for Morozovs. The board read , and Kovalchuk had .
Morozovs had flopped multiple backdoor draws, and turned a diamond flush draw only for Kovalchuk to make a full house on the river. Morozovs was eliminated in 19th place, earning $26,124, while Kovalchuk now has 655,000 chips.
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, giving Wiese a flush draw to go along with his pocket aces, and Wiese's hand held up as the turn and river came 
, 
respectively. Kakhmazov hit the rail in 24th place, earning $26,124, while Wiese is back up to 1.27 million chips.
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completed the board, and Alaei now sits with 1.95 million chips.
, Rybin and Wiese checked, and Marchese fired out 55,000. Only Rybin called.
, Rybin checked again, and Marchese tossed out 95,000. Rybin announced that he was all in (the pot was 421,000), and Marchese folded.
, then 
, bringing no improvement to Stenheim's hand and sending the Norwegian out in 20th place.
with two diamonds for Morozovs. The board read 
.