After a button limp at the previous level, Bryan Paris shoved all in from the small blind for 68,000. Viacheslav Goryachev did likewise in the big for a bit more, and the limper mucked.
Paris:
Goryachev:
The race was on, and the tens stayed good until the river, when an ace emerged to bust Paris.
Albert Daher opened to 12,000 from early position and Ihar Soika called from the big blind. Soika continued to check-call 16,000 on the -flop, 35,000 on the -turn and all in for 67,500 on the -river.
Daher tabled but was beat as Soika had rivered two pair with .
We overheard Patrick Serda tell another player he had hit a set to get up to 900,000. When we asked him, he told us he had not knocked someone out with that set, but he did find aces right the next hand to send someone to the rail.
Bart Lybaert opened for 14,000 and big blind Martin Finger called. Both of them checked on before the hit the turn. Finger bet out 25,000 and Lybaert called.
The completed the board and Finger shoved for 77,000. Lybaert thought about it for a bit before he called. Finger showed and Lybaert mucked .
Action folded to small blind Maxim Lykov and he glanced over at his neighbor's stack and his own. He and Andrew Chen in the big blind both counted their chips and then Lykov pushed for 140,000 total. Chen looked at his cards one by one and called.
Maxim Lykov:
Andrew Chen:
The flop of pretty much settled it. The on the turn and on the river were blanks and Chen parted ways with most of his stack.
After an under-the-gun open to 13,000, Albert Daher made it 33,000 in the next seat. Gerald Karlic shoved all in from middle position for 93,000, giving the opener serious pause. He finally mucked what he later said was jacks, and Daher called.
Asi Moshe was just among the chip leaders but has made a swift exit from the tournament. He just lost the last of his chips with against a player with who made a straight to the jack after Moshe flopped a ten. It appears Patrick Leonard and an unidentified player on Moshe's right are the beneficiaries of his formerly monstrous stack.