We caught the action with a completed board of and a ton of chips in the middle. Matthew Lapossie was facing a huge all in bet from Ryan Olisar and, after some contemplation, slid out chips for the call.
"Full house," Olisar announced and Lapossie flung his cards into the muck after witnessing the tabled of Olisar.
After the hand, they were racking their chips to move tables and Olisar curiously asked Lapossie, "did you flop it?" Lapossie shook his head yes and moved to his next seat assignment.
David Rosenbloom committed the rest of his stack with and Matt Affleck called with the . Neither player improved their holding, meaning Affleck scooped the pot with ace-high and Rosenbloom busted from the tournament.
James Dempsey’s stack is sliding down as he gets blinded out and he finally found a spot to get it in when he jammed his last 31,000 in late position. It folded to the bug blind who didn’t instantly call and Demsey declared that a good sign. Dempsey didn’t get his call though and he picked up his hole cards to show the table his and gave them a happy speech.
“I had it though. If you wait long enough you get rewarded.” He said ironically as he added the antes and blinds to his stack.
Bernard Lee moved all in from early position for 62,500 and Dylan Linde also shoved all in from right behind. Everyone else folded and Lee was at risk and behind with the versus the of Linde.
The flop changed that in a hurry, coming down . The turn and river kept Lee safe and his tournament life was revived.
Matthew Lapossie had called a raise from Martin Stausholm and they went to a flop of . Lapossie led and got a call. The turn card was the and another bet from Lapossie saw Stausholm move all in.
Lapossie called and flipped over . “I’m drawing dead?” a dejected Stausholm said turning over . The river was the and with that Lapossie climbed back into second place in chips.
On the last hand before break, a player from the hijack raised to 10,500 and Matthew Lapossie reraised to 23,000 from the cutoff. Bart Hanson then four-bet to 42,000 from the big blind and only Lapossie called.
The flop was and Hanson bet 25,000. Lapossie moved all in and Hanson snap-called, tabling . Lapossie was way behind with the , but the turn made things more interesting. The river was safe though for Hanson and he would take a good bit of the chips that Lapossie had just commandeered.
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