Jessica Dawley just arrived at her new table to see one of the players toss his cards across the table in frustration. In the very next hand, Dawley raised to 12,000 from early position and got a call from that very same opponent. The flop came , and Dawley led out for 14,000. Her opponent raised to 40,000, and Dawley called.
The turn was the , and Dawley checked to her opponent, who bet 65,000. Dawley raised all in, having her opponent covered and clearly frustrated. He reluctantly threw in his remaining 120,000, and Dawley was uncertain about the result, "You might have the best hand," she said.
Dawley tabled , which was indeed the best hand versus her opponent's for straight and flush draws. The river brought the , and Dawley secured the win and the elimination of what was a visibly tilted opponent.
Familiar faces in the field that cleared the pay jump to $4,174 included Will 'The Thrill' Faila, Christian Christner, Marty Gorenc, Dzmitry Urbanovich, DJ Buckley, Abbey Daniels, Marvin Rettenmaier, and Sergio Aido.
The next pay jump was to $3,750, and some of the notable players who were eliminated for that amount include Shivan Abdine, Daniel Wagner, Kyle Hartree, Lexy Gavin, Mike Sowers, Michael Sangers, and Sylvain Loosli.
With about 40,000 in the pot already on a board reading , Jaspal Brar checked from the big blind, and the player under the gun bet 22,500. The player in the hijack called, and Brar tank-called.
The turn was the . Brar checked, and the under-the-gun player moved all in for 66,500. The hijack went into the tank for a full minute before releasing his hand. Brar snap-called for his last 54,000 and tabled for the nut straight. His opponent tabled for a pair of queens and was drawing dead to the on the river.
Brar got more than a double-up and left his opponent with just two big blinds.
Kenny Hallaert called an all in for around 54,000, and everyone else folded. Hallaert had the goods with against his opponent's . The board ran out , and Hallaert made a full house to add insult to injury. After stacking up his chips, Hallaert appears to have climbed over 600,000, well on his way to finding a bag at the end of the day.
The next pay jump was to $3,398, and some of the familiar faces to hit the rail during this block of payouts include Joseph Elpayaa, Chance Kornuth, Yeping Shan, Brian England, Dustin Fox, Dylan Linde, and Michael Moore.
A player in early position raised to 13,000, and Matt Affleck three-bet to 30,000 from middle position. The early-position player called.
The flop came , and the initial raiser moved all in for about 50,000. Affleck quickly called, revealing before his opponent showed and said, "I was hoping ya didn't have the ace. I was hoping ya had a pair."
The turn was the and the river was the , sending the pot Affleck's way and his opponent to the rail.