In a large pot on a dangerous looking board of Jonathan Bennett moved all in for his remaining 1,710,000. Rudy Cadenas had a decision to make as he had Bennett covered with one of the larger stacks in the tournament, but a call would still be for a sizable portion of his stack. He thought it over for a while and tossed in the one chip call.
Bennett turned over the for trip queens which was good enough to take the big pot as Cadenas mucked his hand.
The action picked up on a board reading and a sizable pot already in the middle.
Christopher George checked from his big blind over to the only other player in the hand, Donovan Desalliers. Desalliers then shoved all in and George asked for an exact count. After the dealer confirmed a total of 985,000 George then went into the tank for almost two minutes before he finally said, "Call."
Desalliers then responded with "Good call," and tabled , which was no good against the that George tabled. Desalliers was sent to the payout desk and George was shipped the large pot.
Sean Yu raised min-raised it to 100,000 from early position, and was called by Michal Mrakes in middle position and Joseph Weinberger from his big blind.
After both Weinberger and Yu checked the flop, Mrakes bet out 150,000 and only Yu made the call. Yu and Mrakes then checked the turn and river, and when Yu tabled Mrakes mucked his cards.
In a four way pot on a flop that read , Dale Isobe bet 200,000 in position on the button. Next to act, Nicholas Kallenbach raised out of the big blind to roughly 590,000. The under the gun player thought for about 15 seconds before pitching his cards, the fourth player in the hand quickly folded. Action was back on Isobe who cut out the chips for the call.
The turn wet the board even more when it came the . Kallenbach led out with a assortment of chip stacks and colors that the dealer counted out to be a bet of 945,000.
Isobe thought it out thoroughly for about two minutes without giving anything away. Finally his facade cracked a bit as he frowned and started to talk to himself and eventually folded the face up showing that he flopped top set but no longer considered it good enough to continue.
Kallenbach pulled in the boon to his stack and did not show his cards despite prompting from Isobe and a few others at the table who displayed curiosity.
After a player in early position raised it to 125,000, action folded to Kainalu McCue-Unciano on the button and he three-bet to 350,000. With action back on the original raiser, he then four-bet shoved for 1,650,000, which sent McCue-Unciano, who had him easily covered, into the tank for about a minute before he made the call.
All-in Player:
Kainalu McCue-Unciano:
The board ran out , and McCue-Unciano sent another player to the payout desk.
A black hole has seemingly formed in the Amazon Room for all of the chips in play in the form of Kainalu McCue-Unciano's as the Hawaii native added yet another chunk of them to his gravitational pull after he bet 300,000 on a board that read that forced Alejandro Quattrini to fold his hand to the pressure of the enormous stack.
Shortly afterwards he four-bet Anthony Kazgandjian, who had a large amount of chips himself, out of a pot when he thrust a large stack of mint colored 100,000 chips forward to garner the fold.
When preflop action folded around to Jordan Helstern in the cutoff, he shoved all in. The next two players got out of the way, but Adrien Allain made the call from his big blind.
Jordan Helstern:
Adrien Allain:
By the turn on a board reading , Helstern stood up from his seat and started gathering his belongings, but then sat back down when the dealer fanned the on the river and gave him a new tournament life.