Rafi Elharar raised to 2,700,000 from under-the-gun, and was called by Robert Rodriguez in middle position. Action folded around to Ono in the small blind, and she re-raised to 10,000,000, which got a fold from Jay Zhu in the big blind.
Elharar then four-bet shoved all in, which made Rodriguez sigh, say an expletive and then fold. With action back on Ono, she asked for a count, and when the dealer confirmed 47,900,000 total, she went into the tank for almost two minutes before finally releasing her cards.
Amer Torbey raised from the cutoff, Evan Johnson three-bet to 10,000,000 from the small blind and Torbey called.
On the flop, Johnson announced "ten million" and quickly slid another stack of T-500,000 chips forward. Torbey swiftly came along with the call, creating a mouth-watering pot of over 40 million in chips already.
The turn was the and within mere seconds, Johnson made a waving motion with his hands and moved all in for 35,000,000. Torbey looked back at his cards and, with a disgusted look on his face, folded after about ten seconds.
At the same table, Andrei Konopelko is sitting pretty behind a stack of 90M and is the presumable chip leader as the once humongous field now has just five tables left.
The board showed and a large pot was already in the middle when Andrew McKenzie and Amer Torbey checked.
The river was the and McKenzie checked once more. Torbey fired 15,000,000, putting McKenzie to a big decision. After some time he ended up calling with . Torbey mucked .
After action folded around to Khang Pham, he shoved his last remaining chips, and from the next seat over Mahesh Rathi also went all in, which got folds from both blinds.
Khang Pham:
Mahesh Rathi:
After the board ran out , favoring Rathi, the dealer counted the nearly-identical stacks and confirmed that Rathi had just 1,200,000 more — exactly one big blind — than Pham, who was eliminated from the tournament.
Kathy Holz raised to 3,500,000, Danny Ehrenberger three-bet shoved 11,500,000 and Holz called after a few seconds.
Danny Ehrenberger:
Kathy Holz:
It was the biggest coin flip of Ehrenberger's poker career thus far, as the small stakes grinder who mostly plays $155 tournaments in the Czech Republic suddenly finds himself on the run of a lifetime.
His dream was kept alive after the board ran out to pair his king. Ehrenberger exhaled a sigh of relief as he raked in the pot.