All the chips went in the middle pre-flop, and Bob Bounahra was at risk for 120,000 against the button.
Bob Bounahra
Opponent:
It was a race, with Bounahra needing to hit to survive. The flop came and Bounahra took the lead. The turn and the river changed nothing and Bounahra doubled up.
Freddy Deeb raised preflop from early position and he received calls from the hijack, cutoff, and the big blind.
Deeb continued to bet on and only the cutoff accepted his 25,000-bid.
The turn was checked and Deeb fired 65,000 on a river. The other player took well over a minute to make his decision and then he threw in calling chips.
Deeb announced ace-ten, rolling over . However, he wouldn't get anything from the pot as the other players turned up for a nut straight.
The action folded to the cut off who raised to 13,000, the button and small blind mucked and Chenxu Zhang went in the tank. After about 30 seconds Zhang decided to shove all of her chips in the middle and the cut-off snap-mucked.
Sitting in the hijack, Diogo Veiga had 40,000 in front of him and he had a decision to make as his neighbor had cold four-bet shoved for 177,500. Veiga eventually opted to go for it.
It was a fair fight with Veiga holding , hoping for a low board against . He would indeed get one as the failed to improve his opponent's hand, and Veiga scored an elimination with the tournament approaching stone bubble.
Daniel Negreanu bet 10,000 on a flop of and a player on the button tanked for a while before shoving a stack of around 100,000. Negreanu snapped him off with and he was miles ahead of .
The turn sealed it for Negreanu and the river was only a formality.
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