Georg Lehmann and Rafael Caiaffa, who were very close in chips, got involved in an all in confrontation preflop. Caiaffa turned over , and he was behind Lehmann's . The board ran out . Lehmann's kings held up, and Caiaffa was eliminated from the tournament.
After losing a few pots, Vladimir Geshkenbein has once again climbed back up the charts by winning a million-chip race. The Russian was up against Carlo Savinelli, who was all in and at risk for around 520,000 with . Geshkenbein tabled , and the window card was the .
Unfortunately for Savinelli, it was followed by the , giving Geshkenbein a set of queens, and the . Savinelli was still alive when the turned, any ten would give him Broadway, but the bricked off on the river.
The Italian hit the rail, while Geshkenbein now has around 1.6 million chips.
We arrived in the midst of preflop back-and-forthing between Emile Petit and James Alexander, sitting side-by-side in the cutoff and on the button, respectively. By then the pair had reached a point where Alexander was tasked with deciding whether or not to call a final reraise for 117,000 more from Petit, and with a big grin and a laugh Alexander said he was calling, thus creating a total pot of about 400,000.
Petit tabled and Alexander said "I'm gonna need to make two pair" as he turned over his . The flop came . "Or a straight," added Alexander, then the appeared on the turn to increase the possibility of that happening. But the river was the , and Petit won and survived.
"You're welcome, sir," said Alexander to Petit afterwards, then opened the next pot while saying "I gotta get those back."
Tom Alner opened to 17,000 from early position, Tyler Cornell three-bet to 42,000 from middle position, then Erkut Yilmaz four-bet to 112,000 from the hijack seat. Everyone folded back to Alner, then he folded and Cornell followed suit, giving Yilmaz the pot.
Gregory Benac was all in preflop with the againt the for Tyler Cornell. The board ran out , and Benac was eliminated. Cornell climbed to 590,000 in chips.
After doubling on the previous hand through Aleksejs Ponakovs, Jon Turner opened with a raise from the small blind to 21,000. David Benefield made the call from the big to see a flop fall.
Turner bet and Benefield called as the landed on the turn and Turner led again; this time for 37,000. Benefield folded and slipped to 235,000 as Turner climbed to roughly 465,000 in chips.
From under the gun, Ronnie Bardah raised to 17,000. Action folded all the way around to the player in the big blind, and he moved all in for 145,000. After tanking for a bit, Bardah folded and flashed just the . His opponent didn't show.
The ESPN cameras were filming as Bardah tanked. After the hand, Bardah began talking about how he had lost two pots since David Stefanski showed up on the rail to sweat him a little bit.
"I've lost the last two pots since you showed up!" Bardah yelled over to Stefanski. "But I'm not blaming you!"
Bardah want on to put on a bit of a show for the cameras, pointing out how he doesn't win all the pots, but Robert Koss, his tablemate, does. "This guy right here, he wins all the pots!" Bardah said, pointing to the Koss and looking at the cameras. Bardah then mimicked Norman Chad saying that if Koss goes deep, they will show this on ESPN and talk about how he wins all the pots.
"Every pot I play against him, he fathers me! Puts me in my crib!" Bardah finished with.
Rob Salaburu opened to 17,000 from middle position and Alexander Roumeliotis called from the hijack.
The flop came down and Salaburu checked to Roumeliotis who bet 22,000. Salabru raised all in for 283,000 and Roumeliotis called immediately with for top set. Salaburu trailed with and couldn't catch up as the turn and river ended his 2013 Main Event.
After a raise from middle position by Alex Livingston, Adam Friedman called. Action folded around to Annette Obrestad who was in the big blind and she reraised to 70,000. The big blind folded back to Livingston who folded. After a quick thought, Friedman folded as well allowing Obrestad to take down the pot without seeing a flop.
Ryan Olson opened to 18,000 from the hi-jack only to have Paul Taylor three-bet the cutoff to 40,000. With the action on Aleksejs Ponakovs on the button, he cold four-bet to 80,000 to force Olson's cards into the muck fairly swiftly.
With the action back on Taylor, he deliberated for close to 90 seconds before eventually releasing his hand to see Ponakovs pushed the pot to put him up to 1,560,000 in chips.