Claas Segebrecht raised to 125,000 from the cutoff and Liv Boeree three-bet all in for 735,000 from the button. The blinds folded and Segebrecht quickly called.
Claas Segebrecht:
Liv Boeree:
There was a King on the flop and Boeree was drawing very thin. The turn was the and the river the and Boeree was eliminated.
Phil Hellmuth completed the blind and saw Adrian Mateos set him all in for about 900,000.
"I looked at a king and limped," Hellmuth said after checking his cards. "I thought I was going to look at another king and snap you off."
"Never happen," Mateos said.
"You've won like 40 hands, I've won like six," Hellmuth responded. "You don't think my little range beats your big range?
"You're like Carlos Mortensen. I always beat Carlos. He finally learned to respect me. I think I'll trap you and you'll learn, too."
Hellmuth let his hand go and Mateos showed the .
The next hand, Hellmuth opened from the button for 120,000. Mateos put in 400,000. Hellmuth shoved all in after about a minute of thought and Mateos snap-called with . Hellmuth showed .
The hit the board and Hellmuth moved to exit. The river was a .
Hellmuth expressed his disbelief at how Mateos was running and said it simply wasn't fair.
Orpen Kisacikoglu is on the ropes after losing an all in to former WSOP Main Event Champ Ryan Riess.
Riess hit an ace on the river to beat Kisacikoglu's pocket sevens. A few hands later, Kisacikoglu got his remaining 85,000 in against Rainer Kempe. Kempe had against the of Kisacikoglu.
Kisacikoglu flopped a queen and stayed ahead to earn the small double.
Phil Hellmuth opened to 120,000 in the cutoff and got put to the test by big blind Liv Boeree. He double-checked his cards and then folded after thinking briefly.
Afterward, he told everyone not to be mad if he turned over aces in that spot.
"It's not a slowroll," he explained. "Sometimes I only see an ace and raise, and then I have to look at the second one."
Manig Loeser shoved all in and Antoine Saout called. Earlier, Loeser had the best of, outkicking Saout's , but this time Saout was ahead. Saout again had and Loeser had .
Again, neither player connected with the board and Loeser was eliminated by Saout.