Christopher Bonita was all in and at risk pre-flop with , Sean Giesbrecht had that beat with and also possessed the superior stack as well. The board ran out and Bonita cashed out.
Only one hand later and same table. John Fontana was single big blind and Josh Hillock pushed 60,000 towards the middle of the table. All players except for Fontana folded but he announced call and was about to flip over his cards. The other players reminded him in time that the opponent had chips left behind and thus it was ruled as a call.
On the flop, Hillock got his remaining 32,500 in with and Fontana immediately revealed . Only running fours would save Hillock and he was already drawing dead after the turn, the completed the board.
John Fontana raised to 20,000 from under the gun and Debbie Kim moved all in for about 80,000 from the big blind with the . Fontana called with the , and the board ran out clean to send the last woman in the field to the payout desk.
Debbie Kim opened for 18,000 under the gun and was met by an all-in three-bet to 58,000 from Dylan Linde on the button. The blinds both folded, and Kim thought for a minute or so before making the call.
Kim:
Linde:
Kim was no doubt hoping her opponent held two different big cards so that it would be a race situation, but as it stood, she was dominated by Linde's superior pair. The board ran out a dry and Linde doubled through.
After losing about 150,000 in chips to leader Jorge Vergara, David Inselberg won some back in a three-bet preflop pot versus Bob Bounahra. With both players looking at a flop, Inselberg moved all in and Vergara went into the tank for about a minute before opting to let his hand go. Inselberg showed before raking in the chips.
A short stacked Perry Lin got the remainder of his stack in with and Frank Patti made the call with . The flop allotted Patti more outs, which he got to on the turn. A blank river resulted in the third elimination in five minutes.
Vanessa Selbst, winner of Event #2: $25,000 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold'em and her third World Series of Poker gold bracelet, joins the show to talk about her heads-up matches, the Twitter beef with Jason Mo, and her two small dogs. Rich, Donnie, and Jason then take a look at all of the recent bracelet winners and dissect the idea of a $20 million guarantee tournament.