We picked up the hand with about 32,000 in the pot already, and the board showed with four cards out. Justin Bonomo was heads-up in position, and he bet 12,600, drawing a check-call from his opponent. The river paired the bottom card on board, and the out-of-position player now led out into the pot with 21,100 of his own chips. Bonomo looked him up, and the bettor could only show . Ace-high was no good against Bonomo's , and that pot pushes him up to 295,000 as he grinds deeper into this Main Event.
A player opened the betting by making it 6,000 to go. Action folded around to Victor Ramdin who moved all in for 27,000. It folded back around to the original raiser who made the call only to find out Ramdin had him crushed.
Ramdin:
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Ramdin stayed safe on the flop when it fell but was heartbroken when the turn brought the . Ramdin halted his massage in progress and stood up to see the drill the river, sealing his fate in this year's Main Event. Ramdin quickly gathered his belongings, paid his masseuse, and made for the exit of the Amazon room.
From the cutoff seat, Matt Stout raised to 5,400. The player on the button called and everyone else folded. The flop came down and Stout continued with a bet of 8,000. The button flat-called to see the turn.
Fourth street was the to place two pair on board, tens and eights. Stout checked first and the button knuckled behind.
The river was the and Stout fired 20,000. His opponent snap-called.
Stout showed the for the low end of a full house, eights over tens. His opponent mucked and Stout won the pot.
A player under the gun opened with a raise to 5,200 and it folded around to Sam Stein in the small blind who shoved all in over the top for his last 61,400. The big blind quickly stepped aside, and Stein's opponent snap-called.
Stein had , but he'd run into an opponent holding . Stein stood to watch the board come , and then quickly exited the Amazon Room, his Main Event run having ended here in Level 13.
With bellies full and thirsts quenched, it was always going to be a slow start after the long break, but Joseph Cheong has just given up a small pot in one of the first hands we've seen.
The action folded around to Cheong who raised to 5,500 from middle position before the flop; his neighbor in the one seat called and the others got out of the way before the dealer spread the flop of .
Cheong fired out 7,300 and the other player called, but then both players checked down both the turn of the and the river .
"King high," Cheong said, but not showing. "I got an ace," the opponent replied, tabling . Cheong mucked his hand.
Action folded to Kevin Howe in the cutoff seat on the first hand back from the dinner break. He raised to 5,700. Two seats over, the player in the small blind paused and reached for chips -- he wasn't calling either. The small blind three-bet to 13,300. Then action fell on Garry "Beast Mode" Gates in the big blind. He looked at his cards and then paused for about 45 seconds. Gates then reached for chips and put in a reraise, four-betting to 26,500.
Play was back to Howe and he tanked for a little bit, but eventually slid his hand into the muck. The small blind took a few moments and then he, too, folded. Gates won the pot and added a little over 20,000 to his stack.
In late position, Annette Obrestad opened the pot with a raise, and Russell Thomas shoved in enough chips to cover her from the big blind. Obrestad had around 60,000, and she called all in with . Thomas tabled , and his two black tens were racing for the knockout.
They'd get it. The board rolled out , and the pair holds to send Obrestad packing. The Norwegian starlet has one Main Event title under her belt already, but a second shot at that title one will have to wait until the Series heads to Cannes for the European leg this fall.
With the knockout, Thomas climbs to within smelling distance of a half-million chips, sitting with 497,000 by our count.