The seat that formerly belonged to Daniel McAulay was filled with a new player, who then got his stack in with . Aymon Hata, who started the day with just 70,000, looked him up with and remained ahead on a blank board to move up to more than half a million.
The full board of was spread by the dealer and Loni Harwood had bet out 125,000 after Jaime Kaplan had checked from the big blind.
Kaplan responded by check-raising all in for 465,000, and Harwood was in the tank.
Jordan Young called over the PokerNews reporter and explained to him that Harwood had bet every street, and Kaplan had check-called each time until check-shoving the river.
Harwood deliberated for a further minute and then called all in for roughly 430,000 total and tabled her .
Kaplan revealed his for a rivered full house, and Harwood was eliminated from the Main Event.
Taylor Paur was standing next to his seat with a stunned look on his face and no chips in front of him. After receiving the card with his finishing position from the chip runner, he made his way out of the Amazon room.
Mike Takayama was the one stacking heaps and the table collectively recapped the action that just transpired. Paur had raised to 16,000 from the hijack and Ema Zajmovic had called from the cutoff. Mike Takayama then three-bet to 77,000 on the button, Paur four-bet shoved for 416,000, Zajmovic folded and Takayama called.
Paur held and Takayama was a dog with . However, the fell in the window to ship the almost seven-figure pot over to the Filipino bracelet winner.
At the feature table, Andreas Kniep raised to 21,000 and Davidi Kitai called in position. The flop was and Kitai called another 21,000 bet from Kniep. Both players checked the on the turn.
The river was the and Kniep check-called 18,000 from Kitai. Kitai showed but Kniep held the winner with
Ralph Massey raised to 18,000 from middle position and Cory Albertson reraised to 36,000 from the hijack. Martin Zamani called from the big blind and with the action back on Massey he moved all in for 283,000. Albertson re-shoved all in for over a million and Zamani folded.
"I didn't come here to fold" said Albertson turning over and Massey showed . The board ran out clean for Massey and his ace queen high was enough to earn him the double up.
Ludovic Geilich opened from under the gun and Aditya Agarwal called from the big blind. The flop came and Agarwal checked to Geilich who continued for 24,000. Agarwal check-raised all in for 157,000 and Geilich snap-called.
Ludovic Geilich:
Aditya Agarwal:
Both players had a flush draw but Geilich had the better holding, although Agarwal also had a straight draw. The turn was the and the river was the . Agarwal was unable to hit any of his outs and the ace-high for Geilich proved to be good enough to send Agarwal to the rail.
Billy Chattaway and Tomas Kubaliak went to war from the hijack and cutoff, respectively, on . Kubaliak had about 50,000 in front of him and Chattaway had raised to 180,000. Kubaliak shoved all in and Chattaway pushed all his chips in the middle.
Billy Chattaway:
Tomas Kubaliak:
Chattaway had plenty of outs, but the and didn't do it for him. He sent 433,000 to his neighbor and was left with 15 big blinds.
Following a raise to 18,000 from early position, Eric Hicks called in late position, as did Mark Zullo in the hijack. The action was on Joey Fabre in the cutoff, and he three-bet to 46,000.
The original raiser, and both Hicks and Zullo all called to see a flop. Action checked to Fabre and he bet 60,000 as only the initial raiser called.
The turn fell the and after his opponent checked, Fabre bet 110,000. Fabre's opponent called, and then both players checked the on the river.
Fabre tabled his for a rivered aces-up, and his opponent angrily mucked his to relinquish the pot to Fabre.