Two More Knockouts for Pardo

In a three-bet pot, Juan Pardo was heads-up with Shyngis Satubayev with around 80,000 in the middle. The flop came and Pardo checked to Satubayev who bet 50,000. Pardo check-raised all in and Satubayev called off his stack of around 220,000.

Pardo turned over for a set of nines while Satubayev had for an over pair. The and runout was no help to Satubayev as Pardo claimed another victim.

In the very next hand, Danny Tang shoved all in for 97,000 on the button and Pardo called from the big blind. Tang flipped over but Pardo had him dominated with .

The board ran out and Tang became the next player to hit the rail. With that pot, Pardo moved over one million chips to pull way ahead of the rest of the field.