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Cathy Dever doubled through Athanasios Polychronopoulos on one of the last hands before dinner break, when her 
held up over the pro's 
.
The board rolled out 
and Dever's kings dodged the deck's aces to send her the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
221,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
133,000
-167,000
|
-167,000 |
|
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Maurice Hawkins opened to 20,000 from under the gun. He found three callers in Tony Gregg, Nick Schulman, and Abraham Korotki.
The flop came 
and Korotki checked first to act. Hawkins was next to act and checked as well. Gregg bet 47,000 and Schulman made it 104,000 to go. Hawkins and Korotki folded and after thinking for about thirty seconds Gregg made the call.
The turn was the 
and Gregg checked to Schulman who made a bet of 116,000. Gregg would tank for over 10 minutes. The first half of that time, he sat there frozen, his arms crossed, looking calm, as he thought about what to do. The second half he took his hoodie and headphones off, a puzzled look on his face. Jesse Sylvia stood up and whispered "how do you call the clock on Tony, he's the End Boss!"
No clock was called and Gregg moved all in. Schulman didn't take as long as he snap-called. Gregg had while Schulman had 
. Schulman could eliminate Gregg with an Ace or Queen but the river was the 
and Gregg doubled up to 860,000 in chips while Schulman was knocked down to 200,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
860,000
295,000
|
295,000 |
|
200,000
-314,000
|
-314,000 |
|
||
Leo Palermo open-shoved for 180,000 out of the cutoff, Keven Stammen re-shoved for 445,000 on the button, and both players in the blinds folded.
Palermo:
Stammen: 
"That's fair," Stammen chuckled at the sight of Palermo's hand.
Oh, if he only knew.
The dealer rapped the felt and delivered a flop of 
. Stammen could no longer win the pot, but a chop was the most likely scenario unless the turn and river both produced spades.
The turn was a spade - the - and the table fell silent for the brief period before the dealer revealed the river. It too was a spade - the 
- and Palermo's freeroll turned into a full double.
Stammen slipped to 265,000 chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
383,000
141,000
|
141,000 |
|
265,000
-228,000
|
-228,000 |
|
||
Ryan D'Angelo and Scott Seiver were heads up on a flop of 
, and D'Angelo, who we believe was the preflop raiser, led out for 30,000. Seiver thought for a bit before matching the bet on the button, and the dealer burned and turned the 
.
D'Angelo led out again - this time for 70,000 - and Seiver silently pointed at the bet to confirm the amount. The dealer cut it down, and the Season 9 WPT World Champion mulled the decision over for the better part of two minutes before calling.
The river was the 
, D'Angelo knuckled for the first time, and Seiver once again sat silently in thought. Finally, he reached into his stack with two hands and pushed forward twin stacks of gray T5,000 chips, betting 200,000.
D'Angelo started thinking aloud.
"What were you thinking so long for on the turn?" he asked Seiver, who responded with nothing but an icy stare at a single spot on the felt. "Ace-five?"
The man known to some as "g0lfa" eventually folded, and Seiver slipped his cards into the muck facedown, dragging the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
700,000
-75,000
|
-75,000 |
|
|
||
|
665,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
||
Jesse Sylvia opened to 24,000, Yuval Harosh called, and Joseph Wertz moved all in for approximately 100,000 from the big blind. Sylvia called and Harosh got out of the way. Wertz had and was dominated by Sylvia's 
.
The flop would come 
to give Sylvia a commanding lead and the 
on the turn and the on the river did nothing to change that. Wertz is eliminated just three spots shy of the money.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
545,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
|
||
|
Busted | |
Keven Stammen opened to 20,000 from under the gun and Loni Harwood made it 48,000 to play from the cutoff. Stammen then jammed all in for his last 233,000 and Harwood made the call.
Harwood:
Stammen:
The board ran out clean for Harwood's fishhooks through the turn, coming 
but the river brought the from space to send Stammen the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
493,000
348,000
|
348,000 |
|
|
||
|
130,000
-65,000
|
-65,000 |
|
|
||
Jonathan Tamayo raised in the cutoff, Justin Young called on the button, and Ray Qartomy called in the small blind.
The dealer fanned 
, Qartomy checked, and Tamayo fired out 35,000. Both players called.
The turn was the , the trio checked, and the river was the 
. Qartomy led out for 40,000, both players called, and Qartomy showed 
for a rivered flush. Tamayo mucked, and Young showed a weaker flush; .
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
710,000
337,000
|
337,000 |
|
490,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
|
|
||
|
450,000
-135,000
|
-135,000 |
|
||
We lost two players on successive hands at connecting tables.
In the first hand, Malkiel Berlianshik moved all in and Jesse Sylvia decided to make the call with 
. Berlianshik was in great shape with but things started to change quickly when the flop and turn came 
.
Now Sylvia could bust Berlianshik with any nine or heart and he would do just that when the river came .
After the hand, Maurice Hawkins told Sylvia "you can smile."
Sylvia responded "I don't feel particularly good about that".
Hawkins laughed and replied "you're lying." Sylvia smiled.
At the other table, Byron Kaverman would open and call Phil Hellmuth's all in shove. Hellmuth was in bad shape with his could not improve against Kaverman's 
and he was off to whine to the television cameras about how bad he runs. "That kid raises every hand and when I finally get a hand, he gets Ace-Queen. Are you kidding me?"
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
650,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
480,000
1,000
|
1,000 |
|
|
||
|
Busted | |
|
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|
|
Busted | |
Athanasios Polychronopoulos opened for 23,000 from the cutoff and only Scott Seiver made the call sitting in the small blind.
The flop fell 
and Polychronopoulos fired out 35,000 after a check to him, with Seiver flatting to see the fall on fourth street. Both players tapped the table and the came down on the river, prompting a bet of 100,000 from Seiver.
Polychronopoulos released rather quickly and his downswing continues after he ran up a big stack early in the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
575,000
-125,000
|
-125,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
300,000
-105,000
|
-105,000 |
|
|
||
Ariel Albilia open-shoved for around 130,000 from early position, and Michael Lavoie snap-called in the big blind.
Albilia:
Lavoie:
Albilia used his one time, but the poker gods didn't obey as the board came 
, and he was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
640,000
228,000
|
228,000 |
|
Busted |
