Player are now on Break
Players will be on a 45 minute unscheduled break
Players will be on a 45 minute unscheduled break
Andrew Zhu leaps in amongst the top of the chip counts courtesy of playing A-Q twice in a row. First up, he eliminated a player by catching an ace on the river, having called his opponent with overcards on the flop. Whatever pair had just been cracked (the dealer had started shuffling the next hand), his opponent was not happy about it.
"Calling with ace-queen! I only had sixty behind - you've got to know what was going to happen. Don't justify bad play!"
"It's pretty normal play," a tablemate quietly said in Zhu's defense (Zhu was quiet throughout), "He's got two overcards and a paired board."
The very next hand, an early position player open-jammed for 275,000. Zhu, still stacking from the previous win, made the call.
Zhu:
Opponent:
The flop brought and there was no help for fives on the turn and river.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
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Andrew Zhu | 1,440,000 | 1,120,000 |
A player under the gun raised to 42,000 and it folded around to Martin Kuba on the button who made the call.
The flop came and the player under the gun made a continuation bet of 40,000 and again Kuba made the call.
The turn was the and it was checked around.
On the river the and the player under the gun bet 60,000. Kuba went all in and the player under the gun mucked exposing the and Kuba exposed the but more importantly Kuba still alive in this one.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Martin Kuba | 350,000 | 71,000 |
All the chips got in the middle pre-flop from a player under the gun who had 300,000. Michael Youngman in middle position had him covered and put him at risk.
Michael Youngman:
opponent:
The board ran out and with that Youngman eliminates a player.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Michael Youngman | 740,000 | 566,000 |
Daniel Sauve's tournament has taken a dramatic turn for the better, after his pocket eights scooped a huge all-in pot. With just over six big blinds, Sauve was the shortest of the all-in players, and up against , and . The flop was the rainbow , the turn the and then one of two eights left in the deck came down on the river: .
"Woowooowoo!" exclaimed Sauve who had presumably resigned himself to an exit.
"The same thing happened to me yesterday!" he said, furiously texting while the rest of the table discussed the hand in animated (but friendly) fashion. "I sucked out hard, but I had six big blinds - what can I do?"
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Daniel Sauve | 500,000 | 185,000 |
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Jan Van Dyk | 1,900,000 | 1,226,000 |
Mohammad Saadeghvazri | 1,200,000 | -30,000 |
Ken Chen
|
930,000 | |
Maurice Hawkins | 510,000 | -56,000 |
Rene Nezhoda | 480,000 | -56,000 |
Daniel Nguyen is now playing a stack of 1,160,000 after eliminating Gary Burrell. The pot itself was over 800,000 and the only hand still visible was Nguyen's winning pocket kings.
The next hand, Joshua Thibodaux raised under the gun to 35,000 and utg+1 Nicholas Tamburo moved all in for 223,000. It folded back around to Thibodaux, who made the call with . Tamburo had and held up over a board.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Daniel Nguyen | 1,160,000 | 660,000 |
Nicholas Tamburo | 460,000 | 228,000 |
Joshua Thibodaux | 265,000 | -298,000 |
Gary Burrell | Eliminado |
Ke Chen and two opponents were all in preflop. Chen had both players covered, but he held the second best hand
Ke Chen:
Opponent:
Opponent:
The board ran out with the river gifting Chen a straight, eliminating both opponents and boosting his stack towards the 1 million mark.
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Ke Chen | 930,000 | 564,000 |
Nível: 22
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
Today has not gone Daniel Negreanu's way. From 601,000 to bust in level 1, he told his phone on a selfie stick the story of his demise: "Now I'm the guy talking about his exit...he (pointing at his eliminator) had aces, I raised with jacks. Aces are better than jacks. Going to jump into the $5k now. Could have happened an hour ago..."
Jogador | Fichas | Oscilação |
---|---|---|
Daniel Negreanu
|
Eliminado |