Pejmanpatric Eskandar open-limped from his button, drawing a raise to 50,000 from the small blind and a re-raise to 150,000 from the big blind, Thomas Denny. Only Eskandar called the second raise. When the flop came all big cards, , Denny shoved for 320,000. Eskandar snap-called with trip aces, , bad news for Denny's pocket queen. The turn and river were bricks to send Denny on his way.
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A preflop raising war left Flavio Ferrarizumbini all in for 939,000. Theo Jorgensen looked him up with the covering stack, but his hand was inferior in this pair-versus-pair battle:
Ferrarizumbini:
Jorgensen:
The board ran and Ferrarizumbini's pair holds to earn him the double up to about 1.9 million.
With the board showing , Johnny Lodden bet 190,000, and Ryan Eriquezzo made the call. The river then brought the . Lodden thought a moment, then bet 300,000, and once again Eriquezzo called.
Lodden tabled and Eriquezzo mucked. Eriquezzo has 945,000 at the moment, while Lodden continues his solid Day 6, moving to 2.6 million.
Breeze Zuckerman opened to 61,000 from middle position only to have Eric Baldwin three-bet to 300,000 from the small blind.
Zuckerman took her time before folding while flashing the .
Baldwin collected the pot and moved to 850,000 in chips.
Joel Benzinou is out. He took against pocket tens for 427,000. The tens were best on a board.
Farshad Fardad has also hit the rail. He had the best of a pre-flop all in with pocket queens against , but an ace on the flop sent Fardad out of the tournament.
Following a raise from Matthew Schreiber on the button, Craig Savage moved all in for his last 375,000 from the big blind with Schreiber making the call.
Savage:
Schreiber:
The board was spread to pair up Schreiber and eliminate Savage from the tournament. Schreiber is up to 2.36 million.
On the first two hands of the main feature table, Gary Kostiuk moved all in to pick up both the blinds and antes along with a preflop raise of Sergey Rybachenko.
Kostiuk has virtually doubled his stack, and now sits on over 450,000 in chips.
New chip leader Robert Pisano is putting his chips to work already. He opened for 40,000 with and then called trying to eliminate Theo Tran after Tran shoved for 155,000 with . Tran didn't hit the flop, nor did he pair with the turn. Down to his last card, Tran paired aces and gave a short fist pump. He's up to about 325,000 now. Pisano still has about 5.5 million.
Here are the current feature table line-ups.
Main Feature Table
Seat 1: Daniel Chamberlain (1,054,000 in chips)
Seat 2: Gabriel Nassif (1,052,000)
Seat 3: Matt Affleck (2,907,000)
Seat 4: Christian Harder (930,000)
Seat 5: Brandon Steven (1,334,000)
Seat 6: Sergey Rybachenko (1,200,000)
Seat 7: Nicholas Rainey (2,260,000)
Seat 8: Gary Kostiuk (294,000)
Seat 9: Jared Ingles (1,120,000)
Secondary Feature Table
Seat 1: David Baker (1,030,000)
Seat 2: Andrew Brokos (1,305,000)
Seat 3: Eric Baldwin (775,000)
Seat 4: David Assouline (885,000)
Seat 5: Brian Jensen (570,000)
Seat 6: Redmond Lee (1,520,000)
Seat 7: Breeze Zuckerman (1,180,000)
Seat 8: Gualter Salles (1,204,000)
Seat 9: Adam Levy (895,000)
Cards are back in the air. One hour remains in the level.