Steffen Sontheimer raised to 35,000 from the hijack and Sean Winter just flatted from the button. Dan Smith then moved all in from the small blind, Sontheimer folded, and Winter snap-called off for 483,000.
Smith:
Winter:
Winter held the granddaddy of all hands and shipped the big double after the board ran out a clean .
On the PokerGO live stream, Phil Hellmuth moved all in from the cutoff for his last 115,000. Ben Lamb was in the small blind and called to put his friend at risk.
Hellmuth:
Lamb:
Hellmuth's best chance of surviving was to catch an ace, but that didn't happen as the board ran out an ace-less .
Steffen Sontheimer and David Peters each put in what appeared to be 125,000 preflop, and when the flop came down , the rest of the chips went in. That meant Peters got an additional 450,000 in to create the tournament's first pot over a million in chips.
Peters:
Sontheimer:
Peters had flopped top pair, but Sontheimer had flopped the nuts. The turn left Peters drawing dead, and he headed for the exit after the was put out on the river.
In a hand from the PokerGO live stream, Ben Lamb raised the button to 27,000 holding the and Daniel Cates defended his big blind with the .
When the flop fell , Cates check-called a bet of 19,000 and the appeared on the turn.
Cates checked his pair and gutshot, and Lamb bet 100,000. Cates had that exact amount in his stack and opted to call off.
Cates had some outs headed to the river, but the was not one of them. With that, Cates fell in 15th place to bring the field down to the final two tables.
The final 14 players have been sent on a 10-minute break as the tournament staff gets ready for the final two tables. The plan for the night is still to play down to the final table of seven, meaning half the field needs to fall before that happens.
Those were the words Sean Winter uttered after Dominik Nitsche eliminated Justin Bonomo.
It happened when Bonomo got his stack of approximately 195,000 all in preflop holding the against the of Nitsche. Nitsche was way behind, but he wound up making a flush after the board ran out .
On another hand from Level 14, which just aired on PokerGO, Brandon Adams got his stack of 99,000 all in preflop and was primed to double through Daniel Negreanu.
Negreanu:
Adams:
Both players paired their ace on the flop, but of course Adams' kicker had him out in front. That all changed when the dealer burned and turned the to give Negreanu two pair. The river failed to help Adams and he was eliminated from the tournament.
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and Sontheimer rivered a straight to score back-to-back knockouts.
, the rest of the chips went in. That meant Peters got an additional 450,000 in to create the tournament's first pot over a million in chips.
turn left Peters drawing dead, and he headed for the exit after the 
was put out on the river.
was not one of them. With that, Cates fell in 15th place to bring the field down to the final two tables.
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