No-Limit Hold'em
Timothy McDermott and Matthew Wantman were all in preflop with their cards on their backs.
Matthew Wantman: 9♦9♥ 
Timothy McDermott: Q♠Q♦
The rolled out 8♠3♥J♣K♠2♦ and McDermott's queens held up to push him well over a million in chips.
Niveau: 21
Blinds: 10,000/20,000
Ante: 20,000
NLH Bomb Pot
A♦2♠K♣
K♥6♠5♥
Esther Taylor bet 45,000 and collected the tables antes and earning some needles from Shaun Deeb along the way.
Taylor went on to tell the player on her right that she had the A♥10♥.
Deeb was seated at the same table grinding a short stack but was seen heading to the payouts shortly after PokerNews left the scene.
Pot-Limit Omaha
According to the players, David Callaghan opened the action with a limp from under the gun. Frankie Muzzio was directly to his left and raised to 60,000, which got a call from David Benyamine in late position.
Action then folded back to Callaghan, who decided to raise the pot, which was 280,000 and almost all of his chips. Callaghan now came over the top with another raise, making Benyamine fold his hand. Callaghan called for the rest of his chips.
David Callaghan: A♥A♠J♦4♣
Frankie Muzzio: A♦A♣5♦7♥
Players both had aces but the Q♦2♦8♦ flop gave Muzzio the nut flush and had Callaghan all but dead. The turn was the 2♠, giving Callaghan two outs to stay alive with a chop, but the 6♠ ended his tournament.
Pot-Limit Omaha
Action picked up with Jason Stockfish all in from middle position and Boshuang Gao having re-shoved his significantly larger stack all in from the button. The under the gun player tanked for a while before finding the fold and leaving Gao and Stockfish heads up.
Jason Stockfish: Q♠Q♣7♠4♣
Boshuang Gao: K♠K♥8♥3♦
The board ran out 5♠7♦8♠K♣A♣ and Stockfish was eliminated in 50th place.
Pot-Limit Omaha
David Consolazio was facing an all in from Stanislav Halatenko and lamenting the 8♣J♠7♣ board before flashing double-suited red aces and folding, making mention that PLO wasn't his game.
It had been a large three-bet pot and Halatenko's stack bloated as Consolazio's deflated.
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