Abraham Araya opened for 150,000 and Derek Browning called. The blinds released and the flop came . Araya bet 210,000 and Browning called to see the come on the turn. Araya check-called 350,000 and river brought the . Araya checked and Browning pushed out 500,000 fairly quickly. Araya took about five seconds to call and Browning said, "Jeez, I missed everything there," and tabled .
Araya said, "Look at this," and tabled to take a two million chip pot.
In the first hand back from the dinner break, Will Nguyen bumped it up to 140k. After a call from Mark Burford, Abraham Araya shipped it in.
"I was afraid of that," said Nguyen, who made the call for his tournament life, with Araya having him just barely covered. Burford got out of the way and the hands were revealed:
Abraham Araya:
Will Nguyen:
The gave Nguyen a ton of outs, but the turn and river didn't aid his effort and Nguyen was eliminated in 7th as Araya inched ever closer to chip leader Derek Browning.
Derek Browning just made a big call for his tournament life and is up and over the six-million chip mark as a result.
The hand started with a 115k opening raise from Daniel Lowery. Browning flatted, but Will Nguyen bumped it up another 375,000.
Lowery got out of the way, but Browning made the call and the dealer peeled off a flop. Nguyen continued with another 375k bet, and again, Browning flatted. But when the turn was revealed, Nguyen shoved.
Browning was faced with a call for his last 2 million in chips and he tanked for a good three minutes before making it with just . Nguyen was on a naked bluff holding , but had outs with one card to come.
That card was the and Browning fell to his knees and doubled up massively once it hit the felt.