Sammartino Doubles; Murthy Takes from Nakagawa

The pocket jacks of JC Alvarado were already in the muck, with a board showing , the Mexican had to pay off the 38,800 of Dario Sammartino who held .

According to Morten Mortensen, Alvarado had three-bet out of the blinds and then bet the flop before both players checked the turn. Alvarado then pushed on the river and Sammartino called with top pair.

Live Satellite winner Neel Murthy continued to thrive in the last hand of the level and just took a big pot off Masaya Nakagawa. Preflop, Murthy raised to 4,500 and Nakagawa three-bet to 11,500 in the cutoff. On the flop, Murthy check-raised to 35,000 and Nakagawa called before the appeared on the turn.

Murthy bet 55,000 and Nakagawa used one time bank chip before calling. The appeared on the river and Murthy announced all in. Nakagawa used his last time bank chip and eventually folded with five seconds remaining.