Aaron Steury opened for 210,000 and was met with an all-in three-bet by Dave Neff, who committed his last 815,000. The rest of the field cleared out and Steury, who had plenty of chips to spare, made the call.
Showdown
Steury:
Neff:
Neff was in great shape to double, and avoided a bad beat as the board ran out . He doubled to 1.7 million, which is well below the chip average.
Aaron Steury started the action and opened for 210,000, Erik Roussakis called from the button and Bob Chow called from the big blind. The flop came , Chow checked, Steury bet 230,000 and Roussakis called. Chow folded and the turn came . Steury pushed out 370,000 and Roussakis made it a cool 1 million straight. Steury tossed his cards away and Roussakis took the pot.
Drazen Ilich raised to 180,000 from early position and was called by Joe Hebda from the small blind. Bob Chow was in the big blind and announced a raise, making it 860,000 to go. Both Ilich and Hebda released their hands and Chow added 400K to his stack without so much as a flop.
This was the most action we've seen since dinner, as raise-and-take its have been the order of the day post-dinner break.
Now that we've reached the final table, the remaining nine players are on a dinner break until 7:00 p.m. CST, which is about 45 minutes from right now. In the meantime, we'll be bringing you their current chip counts.
Action folded to Eric Crain in the cutoff and he opened for 185,000. After the button folded, Aaron Steury three-bet to 525,000 from the small blind. A short-stacked Alan Murphy was in the big blind and decided this was the time to go, so he pushed in 675,000. Crain made the call as did Steury, with the latter asking if he could reraise (he could not).
When the flop fell , Steury led out for 855,000 and Crain got out of the way.
Showdown
Murphy:
Steury:
Murphy needed runner-runner to survive, which meant the turn left him drawing dead. The meaningless was run out on the river as Murphy made his exit in 10th place, to a nice round of applause we might add.