Paul Tedeschi raised to 8,000 from late position and Mustapha Kanit three-bet to 17,000 from his seat in the cutoff. Tedeschi responded with a raise to 36,000 and Kanit called.
The flop had more clubs that the Las Vegas Strip and after 90 seconds of sat riffling chips, Tedeschi decided to bet 30,500 into his Italian opponent. Kanit sat motionless for the count of 30, before reaching for chips and calling.
The brought yet another club into play and now Tedeschi checked. Kanit checked behind and the completed the board. Again, Tedeschi checked, but Kanit didn't check behind, instead he bet 115,000 and was all-in.
Tedeschi smiled an awkward smile before chuckling to himself. It was more of a nervous laugh, though, because if he called and lost his tournament was over. Eventually, Tedeschi folded and asked Kanit to show him his holding. Kanit refused, stating he had the best hand. Tedeschi claimed to have pocket aces as the two headed off to dinner.
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Daniel Eichorn raised to 12,000 in middle position and Darin Stout pushed all in from the hijack. Eichorn shrugged and called, turning over . Stout gleefully flipped up and the board ran clean with . Eichorn was left very short with just 20,500 and busted out the next hand.
Max Silver opened to 12,500 from early position and Keanu Tabali shoved all in from the blind for 104,000. Silver thought for a moment before eventually making the call.
Silver:
Tabali:
The flop came and Silver flopped the open-ender, but couldn't connect as the board completed and Tabali survived.
We walked up to a board of and a ton of chips in the middle. John Hennigan was heads up and his opponent checked to him. Hennigan bet 75,000 and his opponent folded.
Hennigan is our chip leader as we are now down to four tables.