Lakhitov Vying for Chip Lead
Mikhail Lakhitov started the day with about 56,000 chips, a roughly average stack. He's way above average after eliminating Avery Cardoza. Cardoza, with , moved all in for about 40,000 on a flop of . He had a pair and the nut flush draw, but Lakhitov had two blockers to that draw, having flopped the second-nut flush with . The board blanked out, sending Cardoza to the rail and sending Lakhitov to the top of the counts with 250,000.