Just before the dinner break, Andrew Lee was all in preflop for around 650,000 and at risk against Michael Gable.
Showdown
Gable
Lee
It was a classic flip, but Lee needed some help to stay alive. The flop didn't do it, and neither did the turn. Lee was looking for either an ace or king on the river, but it wasn't in the cards as the peeled off. Lee exited just shy of the dinner break in 142nd place for $52,718.
Picking up the action after a flop, Brian Lamanna got his stack of about 540,000 into the middle with against the of Robert Salaburu. The turn changed nothing, but the hit the river to give Salaburu a nine-high straight to score the elimination.
Action started with Bowker raising to 45,000 in the cutoff. Rabtsov made it 125,000 to go from the small blind, and it got back around to Bowker. He moved all in for 660,000 effective, and Rabtsov made the call.
Bowker
Rabtsov:
Rabtsov was in the lead, but he would need to win a race to double up. The board stayed true for him, as it ran out . Rabtsov doubled up to 1.341 million, while Bowker, drops down to 1.651 million on the last hand before dinner.
Tony Lay opened with a raise to 75,000 and it folded around to Kyle Keranen in the small blind who called. The big blind folded, and the flop came . Keranen plucked 130,000 from his mountainous stack and tossed the chips forward. and Lay quickly called.
The turn brought the and another bet from Keranen, this time for 180,000. Lay thought a moment, then let his hand go.
Keranen continues to pressure his table, playing most hands (from all positions) and accumulating chips to increase his currently leading stack.
We didn't catch all the action but we just saw Fabrizio Gonzalez being pushed a huge pot courtesy of Greg Merson. The former had laid out in front of him on a board, while the latter held . It was an action flop, so we're guessing that's when the chip went in.
After all was said and done, Gonzalez had doubled to 3 million while Meson was left with just 50,000. Merson went on to double the very next hand, but he is still on an extremely short stack.