With a flop reading , Gaston Abrevaya checked from the big blind and Ignacio Barcenas bet 255,000 from the hijack. Gustavo Kamei called on his left and Abrevaya checked-shoved his 1.85 million or so. Barcenas quickly laid his hand down but Kamei placed in calling chips.
Abrevaya:
Kamei:
Abrevaya was behind but he had heaps of outs to look for. The turn and river, however, weren't any of them and Abrevaya was eliminated as Kamei had him covered by mere 100,000 or so.
Kevin Calenzo raised to 250,000 from middle position and Michael Finstein called on the button.
A flop reading was dealt and Calenzo threw in a bet 225,000 that Finstein called. The turn came the and this time Calenzo checked. Finstein bet 275,000 and Calenzo responded by moving all in. Finstein snap-called for less with about 1,250,000 and the players tabled their cards.
Michael Finstein:
Kevin Calenzo:
Calenzo had flopped of pair of kings but Finstein had a pair of aces. The river filled up the board and Finstein doubled up.
Nirath Rean, sitting in the hijack, had 545,000 in front of him and last year's WSOP Main Event finalist Artem Metalidi moved all in from the button. Metalidi had a covering stack and Rean spent several minutes tanking. He eventually opted to fold and Metalidi took it down preflop.
Anthony Hu made it 260,000 from the cutoff and Guowei Zhang called from the big blind. They went to a flop of and Zhang checked to Hu who continued for 480,000.
Zhang took around two minutes before he moved all in for 2,110,000 and Hu called right away.
Zhang:
Hu:
Zhang's bottom two pair held as the rest of the board ran out and .