On a completed board of with already roughly 1,500,000 in the pot, Jonathan Depa bet 800,000 in the big blind. Daniel Negreanu was on the button and contemplated his decision before putting in the calling chips.
Depa tabled for a full house and took the huge pot to move over 4 million chips.
In a three-way all-in, Michael Duek got his short stack into the middle and then faced the all-ins of Noah Schwartz and Duarte Baptista.
Michael Duek:
Duarte Baptista:
Noah Schwartz:
On a board of , Duek tripled up while Schwartz doubled through Baptista for 485,000, leaving the latter with just 50,000.
One hand later, Jared Bleznick raised to 60,000 and Baptista called all-in from the small blind, Emmanuel Sebag called from the big blind. On the flop, both active players checked. Sebag check-called the turn for 50,000 and the river was checked.
Sebag tabled the for a full house to which Bleznick already slid his cards into the muck. Baptista flashed the and was sent to the payout desk.
In a preflop all-in contest, Fabian Schoneck was all-in before the flop and looked up by Aaron Mermelstein for a pot of around half a million in chips.
Fabian Schoneck:
Aaron Mermelstein:
The double-suited ace-king had plenty of equity but missed the board entirely to send the German to the payout desk.
Two players were eliminated from table 144 - Taha Maruf and Dmitrii Perfilev. The latter had been among the shorter stacks and had to settle for 33rd place, as David Williams soared to a bigger stack and appears to be second or third in chips.
Just under half an hour remains to be played, and four eight-handed tables are running as Artem Maksimov also hit the rail.
David Williams raised to 60,000 on the button and called the pot-sized three-bet by Michael Duek in the big blind. With just 75,000 behind, Duek jammed the flop and Williams instantly called.
Michael Duek:
David Williams:
Williams was ahead with his pair while both had the same wheel draw and Duek had two live cards at his disposal. None of them arrived on the turn and river to end his run in 31st place.
After collecting his payout slip, Duek walked back to the table to embrace Jared Bleznick, who was previously full of praise for the 23-year-old and repeated that now as well.
"Good game man, you played great," Bleznick told Duek before they parted ways.
A short-stacked Kristopher Tong was all-in before the flop and very slowly revealed one card after the other as he was very aware to be in plenty of trouble against Gregory Shuda.
Shuda was miles ahead with the while Tong exposed the .
The board ran out and that spelled the end for Tong.
After the bubble had burst, Mike Krasienko was among the shorter stacks and he just pulled back the chips after securing a double through Jonas Kronwitter. They had 85,000 in before the flop and Krasienko was then at risk for 200,000 on the flop.
Mike Krasienko:
Jonas Kronwitter:
The turn and river runout changed nothing anymore and Krasienko held onto his lead to score a late double.