A camera crew sprinted to catch Brandon Cantu trying to knock out Michael Maitre. Maitre was all in for around 80,000 with and flipping against Cantu's . "One time!" Cantu shouted. "You haven't used that up yet?" Shawn Rice asked him. "I know I'm going to hit it," Cantu responded. But the flop was an unhelpful . "Eight, eight, eight, eight," he begged, hamming it up for the cameras. Instead, the turn was the , giving him a gutshot. "Eight, nine, ten, eight, nine, ten," Cantu cried while Maitre sat silently. The wasn't what Cantu had requested. He doubled up the quiet Maitre. dropping to about 110,000 himself.
Jonathan Karamalikis raised to 18,000 from the cutoff seat. Reimer Koster was on the button and moved all in for 113,000. William Thorson moved all in from the big blind and that knocked Karamalikis out of the way. Thorson held the and Koster the .
The board ran out and Koster doubled up. Thorson dropped to 600,000.
There was about 55,000 in the pot already when the flop came down . Michael Mizrachi checked the action to Bangalore Subbarao, who bet 35,000. Mizrachi then moved all in for about 192,000 and was called. He showed and was up against the nut flush draw, . The turn and river blanked out and to give Mizrachi a needed double-up to about 430,000.
Brandon Wong checked a board, and Peter Jetten bet 75,000 while the ESPN cameras watched. Wong then moved all in for another 200,000 or so, and instantly, Jetten wasn't happy. "I almost checked this flop," he lamented. "It would have been a lot cooler if I did." He folded his hand, leaving himself with 185,000. Wong showed for an open-ended straight draw. Jetten just shook his head.
Jason Mercier open-shoved from late position with , but ran into Olivier Daeninckx's pocket aces. The board ran out and Mercier's Main Event came to an end.
Dominykas Karmazinas was all in for his last 55,000 and called by Dan Lu. Karmazinas was in early position when he shoved and Lu on the button. Karmazinas was at risk with the and dominating the of Lu.
The board ran through and Karmazinas doubled to about 125,000 in chips. Lu dropped to 365,000.
Matt Affleck was sitting with the button when he called the under-the-gun player's pre-flop raise to 19,000. On a flop of , that player continued for 24,000. Affleck called again.
Both men checked the turn. The river paired the board, , and brought a small bet of 26,000 from the under-the-gun player. Affleck silently slid out a whole stack of orange (T5,000) chips, a raise to 100,000. That raise took down the pot.
Over on the secondary feature table, Vanessa Selbst had been nursing what had become a below average stack for the first hour today. Down to about 150,000 as play resumed after the break, she found herself all in with her tourney life at risk and did not survive the hand.
We haven't all of the details, but were told she picked up and pushed from late position and got a caller holding . The flop came -X, then the turn and river came running fours, and Selbst was eliminated.