On the flop, the action between Greg Merson and Brandon Shack-Harris escalated with both players being all in and Merson at risk with less chips. Showdown:
Merson:
Shack-Harris:
The turn and the river improved the hand of Shack-Harris to a full house and Merson headed to the payout desk.
Iori Yogo opened for 16,000 from the button only to have Loren Klein three-bet the pot to 56,000 from the small blind. The big folded, Yogo called, and the flop came down . Klein was first to act and bet 48,000, which Yogo called.
Both players then checked the turn and the completed the board on the river. Klein checked for a second time and Yogo thought for a few moments before spiking in a stack of orange T5,000 chips for a bet of 100,000. Klein released his hand.
Very fast paced action on both tables and the chips change their owner rather quickly. Brandon Shack-Harris just took down two hands in a row and is one of the top 5 chip counts at the moment.
In the first hand, he check-raised from 20,000 to 56,000 out of the small blind with the flop reading . John O'Shea had raised preflop and wanted to take it down with a continuation bet, but ended up folding.
One hand later, Shack-Harris called a min raise from Matt Ryan and found two pair with on the checked through board to scoop the second pot in a row.
Four players saw a flop for the minimum, and only Steve Billirakis bowed out by the turn. Robert Paddock bet 52,000 when action checked to him, and Iori Yogo folded. Loren Klein made the call, and the hit the river. Klein checked, and Paddock checked it back.
"I missed everything," Klein said, tossing into the middle.
"You win," Paddock said with a slight smile.
Klein threw his other two cards into the middle: . He collected the pot.
In the very first hand back from the break, Robert Paddock raised to 25,000. On the button, Curtis Krushelniski moved all in for less than six big blinds and the blinds threw their cards into the muck. Paddock quickly called and both players turned over their cards:
Krushelniski:
Paddock:
After the turn, the short stack could only chop the pot anymore with a queen, but the blank river completed the board.
Nick Guagenti raised to 25,000 from the cutoff and Iori Yogo called in the big blind. On the flop, both players checked. The turn saw Yogo check-raise all in for the remainder of Guagenti's stack. His opponent had bet 55,000 with almost as much behind and folded rather quickly.
Steve Billirakis raised to 22,000 from under the gun and Loren Klein called to see the flop. Klein checked and Billirakis considered his options for a while before betting 18,000. About one minute later Klein check-raised to 65,000 with 120,000 behind and that enforced a fold from Billirakis.