Adil Sbai was all in and the player at risk against Will Givens. Sbai had found at the crucial moment and was in good shape against the of Givens.
The flop of gave the players a sweat by providing Givens a straight flush draw, but the turn and river saw Sbai double up with nut flush to dent Givens' stack.
Not too long after, though, Givens was three-betting an opener and got shown some respect as his opponent laid it down.
First Brad Libson raised from early position and called the all in from Mike Sowers with versus for 21,000. Libson was able to improve and Sowers headed to the payout desk.
Shortly after we saw Libson raise the button and the big blind defended to see the flop. The big blind led for 3,000 and Libson made it 12,000 before the big blind moved all in for what looked like 28,000.
After getting a quick count, Libson called as quickly with and played against . The turn immediately shut down all hopes for the short stack and the meaningless river completed the board.
Libson did lose one all in showdown against a short stack in a battle of the blinds, though, when he could not get there with versus . But he's still sitting with a healthy stack of 225,000.
Pierre Neuville has been eliminated after raising and then calling a three-bet to 11,000 to see the flop. His hit top pair and top kicker, but unfortunately, the opponent held top set with pocket queens.
We didn't catch the full action but witnessed a massive pot going on on Table 440. Sean Jazayeri filled us in with the details of the betting sizes and said with a smile on the face, "And then I used my experience to hit a set on the turn." We should remember that one for the next time we play a tournament.
So what exactly happened? There was a raise to 4,200 and Jazayeri called, Martin Finger then three-bet to 14,200 out of the big blind and only Jazayeri called. On the flop, Finger continued for 15,500 and the WPT champion elected to call. After the turn, Finger bet 35,000 and Jazayeri moved all in for 89,900.
His opponent from Germany called rather quickly and showed but it was only second best to the of Jazayeri. The river was the and that didn't help Finger, abruptly interrupting his decent start.
Pok Kim hasn't been as chatty today and that may have had something to do with the downswing her stack experienced. Just now she was all in for her last 15,000 with the versus and scored a double up on the board. Her usual table banter then restarted once again.
Xuan Liu opened for 3,500 in early position and it folded round to the Stuart Marshak on the button who thought for a while before three-betting to 8,400. The blinds folded and Liu asked for a count. Marshak had 35,000 behind and had Liu just covered.
Liu moved all in and was instantly called by Marshak who said, “Oh.” when he saw Liu’s and turned over his own .
The dealer put out a flop of and the picture suddenly looked very different as Marshak spiked a set. The turn amd river put paid to Liu’s tournament.
at the crucial moment and was in good shape against the 
of Givens.
gave the players a sweat by providing Givens a straight flush draw, but the turn 
and river 
saw Sbai double up with nut flush to dent Givens' stack.
flop. The big blind led for 3,000 and Libson made it 12,000 before the big blind moved all in for what looked like 28,000.
and played against 
. The 
turn immediately shut down all hopes for the short stack and the meaningless 
versus 
. But he's still sitting with a healthy stack of 225,000.
flop. His 
turn, Finger bet 35,000 and Jazayeri moved all in for 89,900.
but it was only second best to the 
and that didn't help Finger, abruptly interrupting his decent start.
versus 
.
and the picture suddenly looked very different as Marshak spiked a set. The turn 
amd river 
put paid to Liu’s tournament.
