Tom Hall raised from under the gun to 48,000, and Patrick Chan three-bet from the button to 118,000. Hall four-bet to 648,000, Chan shoved for a total of 834,000, and Hall called to put him at risk.
Hall:
Chan:
Chan was racing for his tournament life and needed to improve to stay alive. The flop changed nothing, and neither did the on the turn. The river was exactly what Chan was looking for, though, and he doubled up.
The PokerNews Live Reporting team was just informed that Erkut Yilmaz stacked a player with a straight flush.
Yilmaz reportedly raised preflop from the cutoff, the player in the small blind three-bet to 123,000, and Yilmaz called. The flop came , and the small blind check-called a bet from Yilmaz.
The turn was the , and the small blind moved all in. Yilmaz called, and the two players tabled their hands. Yilmaz held for two pair and a ten-high flush draw, and the small blind held for a pair of nines and a jack-high flush draw.
When the fell on the river, Yilmaz hit the only diamond in the deck that kept his hand best, and this pot put him among the top chip stacks.
The player under the gun opened with a raise, and Christopher Legaspi called.
The flop was , and all the money went in the middle, with Legaspi the player with the slightly smaller stack of 476,000. His opponent tabled and had been ahead preflop, but the of Legaspi had flopped a set and remained ahead as the turn and river completed the board.
Ismael Bojang just informed the PokerNews Live Reporting team that he recently doubled to about 750,000 chips.
According to Bojang, a player raised to 35,000, Bojang shoved from the cutoff with for approximately 370,000, and the big blind called. The original raiser folded, and the big blind tabled , so Bojang was flipping for his tournament life. The board provided no help to the big blind, and Bojang's pair of eights held for the double-up.