Jose Jaraiz opened to 12,000 from the cutoff and received a single call from Christian Harder out of the big blind.
Jaraiz continued for 10,000 after Harder checked to him on a flop of . It was not enough to shed Harder, who flatted.
Action checked through the turn to the river where Harder again checked. Jaraiz pondered for some time before checking back and Harder turned over for top pair while a visibly frustrated Jaraiz tossed his hand into the muck.
Christopher Frank has been on an absolute tear over the last few levels of play. Coming into the day with a stack of 112,000, he has since run that up to 870,000.
Action folded to Frank in the small blind and he raised to 14,000. The player in the big blind flatted to send the two to the flop.
Frank continued on a flop of for 5,000, which was enough to elicit a fold from his opponent and keep himself chipping up.
The tournament director has just announced that the total prizepool for this event is $4,243,500 with 138 players getting paid a minimum of $8,053 and the eventual winner taking home $771,765 along with a coveted WSOP gold bracelet.
Jimmy D'Ambrosio was in the hijack heads-up against Stefan Schillhabel in the small blind. There was around 100,000 in the pot and the board read .
Schillhabel bet 50,000 and in response D'Ambrosio shoved all in for around 140,000 sending Schillhabel into the tank. He thought about it for a minute before finally deciding to fold and D'Ambrosio took the pot down without having to show his hand.
After a raise from early position from Shawn Daniels of 8,000, we had one caller before Linglin Zeng three-bet to 40,000 from the small blind. After Daniel Negreanu folded his big blind blind, the original raiser moved all in for around 130,000.
Linglin called as Negreanu got his vlog camera out apologizing to Shawn for saying '' I think an ace is coming when they showed down.
Linglin Zeng:
Shawn Daniels:
was the board, doubling Daniels up as he dodged an ace.
Action folded around to Paul Ahn in the small blind who limped. Kenny Hallaert checked his option out of the big blind to send the players heads-up to the flop.
Ahn led out for 4,000 on the flop only to see Hallaert raise to 15,000. After some consideration, Ahn called.
Ahn checked on the turn and Hallaert, seemingly bent on getting as many chips into the middle as possible, bet 38,000. Ahn went into the tank and came out with a raise to 70,000. He was informed by the dealer that the minimum raise would be to 76,000 and Ahn tossed in the extra 6,000. Hallaert pushed all in to send Ahn back into the tank. "How much more?" he asked as he counted up his own stack. "129,000," responded Hallaert. Another minute or so went by before Ahn laid his hand down to end a hand that took over six minutes to complete.