With roughly 140,000 in the pot on seventh street, in a three-way pot, a short-stacked Todd Brunson checked to Adam Friedman, who bet.
Ben Diebold folded, later saying he had a flush draw, and Brunson called.
Friedman showed three hearts in the hole for an ace-high flush, while Brunson mucked his cards with another comeback needed to continue surviving in the tournament.
Yehuba Buchalter was forced all in with his short stack on third street and Lieberman had the huge lead with a pair of kings. He got a third one on fourth street and Buchalter was sent away.
A couple of hands later the other short stack at the table was all in on third street,
Noah Bronstein: //
Eric Kurtzman: //
Noah Bronstein was all in with his very short stack on third street. Eric Kurtzman had the lead and three spades for a good start. Bronstein took the lead on fourth street when his deuce paired and Kurtzman regained that lead when he hit a king on sixth street.
It was down to Bronstein's river card as he peeled the to give him two pair and keep him around.
Ben Diebold raised on third street and was called by Todd Brunson. Diebold then bet fourth street and was called, but then checked on fifth street, prompting a bet from Brunson.
Diebold then check-raised Brunson but still received a call.
Diebold bet sixth and seventh with Brunson calling down.
Diebold showed trip jacks on the end, while Brunson showed kings and eights for a losing two pair.
In a hand shortly after, Diebold won a pot from Jean Gaspard to vault him over 600,000 chips and solidly into the chip lead.
Brian Lieberman: /
Yueqi Zhu: /
Yehuda Buchalter: /
Action was picked up on sixth street where Yehuda Buchalter bet, Brian Lieberman called with four to a straight flush showing and Yueqi Zhu came along also.
Zhu checked seventh street, Buchalter bet 12,000. Lieberman raised to 24,000 which got Zhu to stand up and go into the tank. He thought it out for quite some time while standing before sitting and throwing in the chips in a manner that looked like a painful and reluctant call. Buchalter got out of the way.
"Got the straight flush?" asked Zhu.
"Yep," said Lieberman and tabled the for the straight flush.
Zhu tossed over his own ace-high flush and voiced his frustration. "I can never get a break!" he said as he shook his head and explained his reasoning for calling.
Buchalter claimed that he had folded a king-high flush to put the cherry on top of the crazy hand, where all three players had flushes by fifth street.
Eric Kurtzman: /
Marco Johnson: / folded seventh street
Action was on sixth street. Eric Kurtzman bet with a pair of nines showing. Brian Lieberman departed from the hand as he folded and Marco Johnson called with a pair of sevens up..
Kurtzman fired on seventh street which got Johnson to fold as Kurtzman took the pot to keep his recent spin up going.