Steven Blomberg, from under the gun, fired a bet for 80,000 on the flop, and Jeffery Bond called in the hijack.
The turn brought the , and both players checked, The river fell , and Blomberg pushed in his remaining 365,000. Bond went deep into the tank.
"You didn't like the king, or did you, which one was it," Bond asked, trying to get a read on Blomberg. Bond eventually folded, and Blomberg showed him the bluff with .
Returning this morning with 190,000 chips, Minh Nguyen lost a big pot early on to drop to just three big blinds. With an eye to the approaching money jump, Nguyen folded his big and small blinds, leaving him with just 4,000 chips.
Satisfied to have made an extra $500 when the pay jump was activated by the latest elimination, Nguyen got back into the action. Since that moment, what he's done to his stack is pretty incredible. Nguyen has doubled time and time again, winning consistently until he hit the last break with 800,000 chips.
While Farhad Jamasi is quietly rising in chips, over on Jean Fontaine's table there are bluffs and banter aplenty. His tablemate took a picture of a board featuring a pair of fives and overcards, and Fontaine's winning hand - a pair of threes. Apparently a huge river bluff had pushed his opponent off the 900,000 pot.
"You're a senior!" his amused and impressed tablemate said, "How can you walk around with balls that big?"
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Walan Kite went all in from middle position for his last 230,000, Henry Mlekoday came over the top from the cutoff for his 502,000 stack, and Robert Wong, having both players covered, made the call from the big blind.
Walan Kite:
Henry Mlekoday:
Robert Wong:
The preflop equities on this three-way battle ran close, with Wong having a 40 percent chance of winning, versus 35 percent for Mlekoday and 24 percent for Kite.
Board:
The ace on the flop put Mlekoday ahead, and it held up through the river, putting him over the 1-million mark.
A kerfuffle around Table 485 signalled the cracking of aces by an underpair with a straight. The aces belonged to start of day big stack Thomas Loya, the underpair () to David Stonehouse, who'd moved all in preflop and found all the action he could want behind him.
The board ran out , a nine-high straight for Stonehouse. Fellow UK player Ali Zihni came over to inspect then congratulate.
"Ten bigs, what can I say?" said Stonehouse as he scooped in the pot.
Frank Martin faced an all-in lead of 225,000 on a flop of into a pot that had already swelled to 140,000. Peter Kamaras, who'd put his tournament life on the line betting out here, had to wait a moment for Martin (with 405,000 behind) to make his decision. He folded.
The very next hand Martin himself moved all-in when it folded round to him in middle position. No interest was shown until action reached Scott Numoto in the big blind. Numoto stood up, looking at his opponent's stack, until the floor told him, "You have to be in a seat to play a hand. All in is a different matter."
Numoto sat down and asked for a count of Martin's chips, then folded. Racks were handed out as yet another table breaks; there are 180 players left with the payout level currently at $3,758.