Action picked up preflop with Gregg Merkow and Christopher Keller trading raises to get all their chips in the middle. Both had similar stacks of just about ten big blinds.
Christopher Keller:
Gregg Merkow:
The flop came out , still overpair versus overpair. The turn brought the , adding a flush draw for Keller. The river fell the , and Merkow's kings held for the full double.
Left with about one big blind, Keller then tripled up and then doubled up in the next few hands to get back some of his chips.
Daniel Tordjman raised to 700,000 from early position. Only Igor Ioffe made the call from the big blind.
The flop showed up . Ioffe checked in flow and Tordjman continued for 1,000,000. After some thinking, Ioffe made the call.
The turn was the and Ioffe checked once more. Tordjman went all in for just under the pot, a total of 3,775,000. Ioffe went into the tank, but made the call after about a minute to put Tordjman at risk.
Daniel Tordjman:
Igor Ioffe:
Tordjman was behind against the two pair of Ioffee. The river didn't change anything and Tordjman was eliminated.
After Leonard Sande just tripled up from 175,000 chips, he got his last 800,000 or so in from the big blind versus the small blind open jam from Guillaume Soumier.
Leonard Sande:
Guillaume Soumier:
The board gave Soumier the win, eliminating Sande in 15th place for $9,608.
Jonathan Borenstein had got it all in pre-flop from the big blind with against the of Clifford O'Conner, who was the at risk player with his last 1,200,000 on the table.
The board ran out to double O'Connor up through Borenstein who uttered, ''Three times in a row I've had aces lost all in''.
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A few hands later, O'Conner raised to 700,000 from early position. Action folded to Vivian Saliba in the big blind who made the call.
The flop showed up . O'Conner bet 1,700,000, leaving about 500,000 behind. Saliba thought for a bit and raised the rest of it. O'Conner called.
Vivian Saliba:
Clifford O'Conner:
O'Conner had aces against Saliba's connected cards. The hit the turn to give Saliba the straight and end O'Conner's tournament.