Arie Kliper had no qualms about calling Marcelo Dabus' pre-flop re-raise. Kliper had opened for 38,000 from the cutoff and was re-raised by Dabus to 138,000. Once the blinds folded Kliper quickly called. He also made a quick check and call of another 115,000-chip bet from Dabus on a somewhat connected flop of . When both players checked the turn, Kliper fired 155,000 into the pot on the river. Dabus tanked for about two minutes before folding.
In early position, Gualter Salles raised to 33,000 and Michael Pettit called two seats over. When it came around to big blind Paul Kristoffersson, he reraised to 100,000 straight, folding Salles but keeping Pettit around with a big pot brewing.
The two men went heads up to a flop of , and Pettit slid out 130,000 chips. Pettit called, and the dropped on fourth street. Kristoffersson only had one move left: all in for 403,000. Pettit's call came instantly as he turned over for the set, and Kristoffersson's were dead to two outs.
The river was decidedly not a jack, and Kristoffersson has been eliminated.
Diogo Borges had a difficult start to his Day 6. He made a wrong turn right away and found himself way down to 158,000. He kept moving, though, and soon decided to push all in from the cutoff with .
It folded to Theo Jorgensen who called from the small blind with his . The big blind folded, the board came , and Borges survived with 320,000. Jorgensen still has 2.75 million.
A short-stacked Ken Evanowski got all of his chips in from the cutoff position. He got through two of his three opponents, but big blind Jacobo Fernandez called the all in with . Evanowski showed . He actually managed to turn his kicker, , but then Fernandez rivered his with an ace from space, . There were a few silent whistles at the table, but Evanowski showed no emotion as he stood up and waited for a runner to hand him his payout slip.
Niklas Toorell opened the action with a raise from the hijack position before Joachim Hein moved all in for 231,000 from the big blind. Toorell made the call and the cards were on their backs.
Toorell:
Hein:
The board bricked out leaving Hein to shake his opponent's hands and and make an early exit from Day 6.
Chip leader Evan Lamprea is starting the day pushing chips around. He opened this last pot with a raise to 38,000, and he found action from Pavel Milanov two seats over. The flop came out , and Lamprea continued out with a bet of 52,000. Milanov called, and Lamprea bet another 127,000 on the turn. This time, however, Milanov moved all in for about 500,000, and Lamprea snap-mucked to drop back to a still-quite-okay 3.3 million.
Milanov is up to about 830,000 here in the early going.
Diogo Borges opened the pot with a raise from the button, and he and small blind Ismail Erkenov tangled in a reraising war that left Erkenov all in for 684,000. Borges came right along for most of his own stack, and the cards were on their backs:
Borges:
Erkenov:
There was no ace and nothing else to sweat on the board of , and Erkenov has started his day with a double up. He's at 1.402 million now, while Borges drops back down to 160,000.