Preflop, Benjamin Alacam opened to 12,000 with Mike Stecker making the call. The flop came and Alacam check-raised all in. Alacam had Stecker covered, so Stecker made the call for all of his chips.
Stecker:
Alacam:
The board blanked and to ship the pot to Stecker's flopped straight. Stecker has 319,000, Alacam drops to 130,000.
Daniel Neilson opened from the button to 9,500 with Leo Margets raising to 20,000. Neilson called.
The flop came and Neilson flat called a 17,000 chip bet from Margets. On the turn he called a 20,000 chip bet. On the river both players checked, and Neilson rolled over to beat Margets' .
Neilson has 445,000 chips in his stack. Margets is not quite that high, sitting at only 163,000.
Benjamin Alacam has just eliminated Andreas Riegen. With the money up Riegen thought it prudent to put his stack in with and found himself up against the of Alacam.