Four players were all in with Valery Yantsevich at risk as the shortest for 15,000 while Hariton Tonchev was the second-shortest stack, followed by Audrius Stakelis and Dario Sammartino as the biggest stack.
Sammartino had the best of it before the flop but Yantsevich hit magic on . The turn gave Stakelis one out to a straight flush but he would be the only player to bust as the river gave Tonchev the best two pair. Tonchev tripled up for 54,000 and the remaining 10,000 of Stakelis went to Sammartino.
Natalie Teh had survived the bubble with very few big blinds and doubled twice after that. Just now she was all in for 66,000 from the big blind with the and Raphael Wimmer had the better kicker with the as initial raiser in the cutoff.
The board came and the kicker played to eliminate Teh.
Fedor Kruse sat in the big blind and was seen stacking chips and he was kind enough to tell what happened.
''I sat in the big blind with about 100,000 and defended with . The flop was and he made a small bet. I raised to 18,000 and he called. I bet 25,000 on the turn () and he called. I put the rest of my chips (55,000) in the middle on the river () and he called.''
Kruse now has a stack of about 50 big blinds going into the last 30 minutes of the day.
Raymond Hibert was in the process of getting paid on a double with his winning hand of displayed on a board of , winning the pot with trips.
"Thirty-six," said tablemate Bryn Kenney as the amount was counted to be confirmed, resulting in Hibert finding himself getting a much-needed double shortly after the bubble burst.
Moments later on an adjacent table, Xia Lin got all in from the hijack with action from Sorin Flutur, who was in middle position.
Xia Lin:
Sorin Flutur:
Lin lost the coin flip as the board ran out , giving Flutur a pair of kings on the turn to score the knockout and win the pot.
With 90,000 in the middle, a three-way pot had just left over Yehuda Cohen and Xiaqing Ji as initial raiser and flop aggressor Davidi Kitai had gotten out of the way on the turn. Cohen check-raised to 131,000 and was then shellshock when Ji had jammed for a lot more than he thought.
"You said he had just 100 behind!" Cohen said to the dealer, who declined immediately that she said anything at all and was supported by everyone else at the table. Cohen stayed stunned and started table chat with Ji, who said after more than two minutes that he was not bluffing.
The clock was called on Cohen and 45 seconds ran down without any decision, his hand was dead. Ji offered to reveal one card and Cohen opted for the right card, Ji flipped over the and Cohen said in table chat he folded jack-six for two pair.
Bryan Paris, Zinan Xu, and Jonathan Therme were all-in in a three-way pot and Paris had the biggest stack. Xu was the short stack in the hand and Therme was the middle man.
Paris had and he was flipping for the side pot against the of Therme. Xu, however, had and ended up winning the main pot as no queen or jack landed on the board and the river was a ten.
Paris did win the side pot and won chips in the hand while Therme was sent to the rail.