Phil Hui moved all in for 10,100 on a flop of and Joe McKeehen called with a bigger stack.
Phil Hui:
Joe McKeehen:
Hui had tens and sevens to be ahead of the open-ended straight draw of McKeehen. The turn gave Hui a boat to have McKeehen drawing dead headed to the river to earn Hui a double.
Daniel Strelitz was out of position in a heads-up pot against Gaetan Balleur on a board reading .
Strelitz led out with a bet of 2,500 and Balleur wasted no time raising to 9,000. Strelitz responded with a three-bet to 20,000 and Balleur called.
The river brought the and Strelitz tanked for about a minute before betting 22,000. Balleur in turn went in the tank for several minutes and stared Strelitz down before making the call.
Strelitz showed for quad sevens and took down the massive pot.
On a completed board of with around 14,000 in the middle, the action was picked up with 24,000 in chips in front of Freddie Kirkland. He had fewer than that behind and was in the tank, as he faced the shove by Daniel Weinman for 41,200.
Eventually, Kirkland sigh-called and Weinman rolled over the for quads queens to score the knockout. Kirkland briefly exposed for the nut flush before heading out of the tournament area.
A shorter stack pushed all-in for 6,400 and received one caller. Fausto Tantillo then three-bet to 17,000 on the button to force out the blinds including Frank Funaro and the cold-caller also got out of the way as well.
Short stack:
Fausto Tantillo:
On a board of , the pocket pair of Tantillo remained ahead and he scored the knockout.
Heads-up to the flop, Huy Nguyen check-raised from 3,000 to 8,000 and was called by Kathy Sawers. Nguyen then bet the turn for 4,000 to receive a call and bet another 15,000 on the river.
Sawers went into a brief tank and then called as Nguyen rolled over the for a straight flush. "That's usually good enough to win the pot," David Moses chimed in and Sawers nodded before sending her cards into the muck.
Heads-up to the turn, Gary Bodley bet 3,000 and received a call by Katie Kopp from one seat over. Bodley then bet another 6,000 on the river and Kopp raised to 20,000 within a very short time span. That immediately sent Bodley spinning and he eventually sigh-called.
Kopp tabled the for a full house and Bodley mucked what appeared to be for trips aces.
Aleksejs Ponakovs was all smiles after he had just knocked out a short-stacked Derin Goodman. His had been well ahead of the of Goodman in a preflop contest and there was no miracle escape on a board of , boosting the stack of the High Roller regular and Event #42: $100,000 High Roller No-Limit Hold'em gold bracelet winner further.
Matthew Mendez opened the action and Paul Hizer then three-bet to 1,600 from one seat over. Anthony Close cold-called in the big blind and Mendez then reraised to 6,700. Hizer eventually called while Close folded.
Heads-up to the flop, Mendez continued for 8,700 and Hizer called reluctantly as the followed on the turn. Mendez then pushed all-in for 33,300, which had the 20,000 of Hizer covered. The Brit tank-called after some two minutes and the cards were revealed.
Paul Hizer:
Matthew Mendez:
The on the river brought no miracle for Hizer and he was sent to the rail.
In a three-way three-bet pot to the flop, Pedro Bromfman checked his option and then called a bet worth 2,700 into a pot of 4,500 while in the blinds. Patrick Schuhl also came along as Paula Zingelmann had continued and the fell on the turn.
Both Bromfman and Schuhl checked and Zingelmann then bet 6,500 to face the check-shove by Bromfman. Schuhl got out of the way and Zingelmann called all-in for around 15,000.
Paula Zingelmann:
Pedro Bromfman:
"What do you have, I can't see it," Zingelmann said from the other side of the table and once Bromfman announced his set of nines, she followed that up with an "I need a king". However, the river was the and that only improved Bromfman to nines full of treys, sending Zingelmann to the rail.