Dani Stern opened the hijack for 45,000 and his neighbor Daniel Dvoress shoved all in for 266,000 from the cutoff.
Action folded back around to Stern who asked for a count. The dealer started cutting the chips, but Stern had already called after Dvoress had announced it was 266,000.
Daniel Dvoress:
Dani Stern:
The board ran out and Stern was left with just 164,000.
Sam Greenwood had 297,000 chips left when he just moved all in from the under-the-gun plus two position and the action quickly folded to the chip leader in the big blind. Dzmitry Urbanovich looked at his cards, twirled them around, looked back down at them and paused briefly before tossing in a a single 5,000-chip to make the call.
Greenwood:
Urbanovich:
The board ran out and Urbanovich hit three of a kind to knock Greenwood out. Extremely disappointed Greenwood exited the room and we are down to just six players.
The action folded around the Piotr Franczak in the small blind, and the Polish player raised it up to 55,000. Stern grabbed a slightly bigger amount of chips than he needed for the call, and threw in 125,000.
Franczak played around with his cards for a little while before sliding his entire stack forward.
Stern folded immediately and said, "I really thought you were going to fold when you started playing with your cards."
Franczak smiled and stacked his newly won chips and he's right in the middle of the pack right now.
Daniel Dvoress just moved all in on back-to-back hands and picked up the blinds and antes. The Canadian pro remains among the shorter stack and he will need a double up sooner rather than later if he wants to make a run at this final table.
Connor Drinan raised to 36,000 under the gun and Dani Stern called from the cutoff. The flop brought out and Drinan opted to check. Stern bet 39,000 and Drinan made the call.
On the turn the hit and Drinan check-folded when Stern bet 95,000.
Piotr Franczak was seated in the big blind and busy texting on his phone when the cards were dealt. In the mean time, Dani Stern under the gun and Sam Greenwood under the gun plus one folded their cards by throwing them over the line. Franczak's yet untouched cards were halfway over the line as well.
With two folds underway, the dealer scooped up all six cards, mucking Franczak's cards by accident.
Nobody noticed what had happend till action folded to Connor Drinan on the button who raised to 35,000. Dzmitry Urbanovich folded his small blind and Piotr Franczak shifted his attention from his phone to his cards... The cards that weren't there.
Franczak thought he hadn't been dealt in, but in fact he was but his cards were already mucked. Franczak didn't understand and the floor man stepped in to make the ruling that Franczak's hand was dead, and there was nothing there could be done about it.
Franczak was unpleasantly surprised, but was quickly convinced by the table that it was the correct ruling, however unfair it seemed.
"It's good that you folded," Drinan said with a serious voice, stating he had a real hand when he raised his button.
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and Stern was left with just 164,000.
and Urbanovich hit three of a kind to knock Greenwood out. Extremely disappointed Greenwood exited the room and we are down to just six players.
, and another 85,000 on the 
and Drinan opted to check. Stern bet 39,000 and Drinan made the call.
