Jakob Toestesen raised to 200,000 from early position and Benjamin Statz called around the table in the cutoff seat. In the small blind, Nicolas Babel squeezed in an all-in shove for 1.915 million total. Toestesen passed but Statz made the call to put Babel at risk. They were flipping a coin for, oh, about 4.2 million chips.
Showdown
Toestesen:
Babel:
The flop was a swing and a miss, coming . The turn put Babel one card from extinction, but the river was his salvation. Babel caught his pair to double up, and Statz has taken a hit back to an average stack of about 5.1 million.
Remond Lee raised to 225,000 from under the gun and Scott Clements called in middle position to see the flop come down . Lee continuation bet 450,000 and Clements made the call.
The turn card added the to the board and Lee fired 1.1 million after checking on how much Clements had behind. Clements had 2.4 million and folded to give Lee the pot and move him to five million.
Jonathan Duhamel raised it up from the hijack position to 200,000 and Matthew Berkey made the call in the big blind.
They saw a flop of and Berkey checked to Duhamel who made it 245,000 to go. Berkey responded with a check-raise to 625,000 and Duhamel made the call.
The turn brought the and the action was check, check, as the hit the river. Berkey led out with a bet of 1.2 million before Duhamel moved all in for 1.835 million more. Berkey made the call.
Berkey showed for trips but Duhamel held for a turned full house to double through. The massive 7.9 million chip pot heads to Duhamel as Berkey is crippled to just 95,000.
Under the gun, Robert Pisano raised to 180,000, and Edward Ochana called to see a flop.
The two men went heads-up, and the dealer put out for the first three community cards. Pisano continued out with 270,000 chips, and Ochana called to go to the turn. Pisano checked this time, and he called one of Ochana's bets -- 430,000. On the river , Ochana fired another 720,000, and Pisano decided to look him up with one last call.
Ochana tabled for the middle pair, and Robert Pisano's was stronger. He's chipped up to about 5.2 million courtesy of that pot, while Ochana drops back to 3.565 million.
John Racener opened under the gun to 180,000 only to have Michael Mizrachi three-bet from the cutoff to 580,000.
Racener made the call to see a flop fall and Racener check-call a bet of 600,000.
The turn landed the and once Racener checked, Mizrachi fired out 925,000. Racener took roughly two minutes before making the call as the river landed the .
Racener checked and Mizrachi fired out 1,000,000 as the majority of the railbirds were standing watching the hand play out.
Another two minutes went by before Racener made the call tabling his to chop with Mizrachi's .
John Racener entered the pot from early position for 180,000 with David Baker and William Thorson making the call before Michael Mizrachi moved all in for 1,510,000 from the button.
Racener passed, Baker did so too, before Thorson thought for barely thirty seconds before making the call.
Mizrachi:
Thorson:
With Mizrachi's rail all on their feet watching on, the flop fell to force them into a screech of loud cheers.
The turn landed the to improve Mizrachi, but now give Racener outs for a gutshot straight.
Fortunately for Mizrachi, the river improved his hand once again as it landed the to see him double through to 3,590,000 in chips.
Matthew Jarvis raised it up to 200,000 from under the gun before Johnny Lodden made it 565,000 next to speak. The table folded around to Jarvis who made the call.
The flop landed and both players checked. The turn brought the and Jarvis led out with a bet of 730,000 which was good enough to take it down.
Jarvis is up to 7.4 million with Lodden at 5.14 million.
Evgeny Shnayder was all in for about 400,000 from the button, and he was called down by Jerry Payne in the big blind. Shnayder faced a dominating situation to rob him of most of his stack, and he was once again dominated in this hand -- and this time it was for all of his chips.
Showdown
Shnayder:
Payne:
The dealer ran out for a board, and that's not going to do anything to keep Shnayder in the game. He's out, and Payne has moved to 2.46 million with those additional chips.
Patrick Eskandar raised to 175,000 from early position before Michiel Sijpkens popped it up to 480,000. The table folded back to Eskandar who made the call to see a flop of .
Eskandar checked and Sijpkens bet out 400,000 to take it down. Eskandar is back to 7.9 million with Sijpkens getting himself up to 3.6 million.