Action folded around to Daniel Idema in the small blind. He shoved all in for 449,000 with . Unfortunately for him, DJ MacKinnon woke up with and snap called from the big blind.
The board fell and MacKinnon ended up making the the nut flush on the river, eliminating Idema in 7th place.
Hand #19: Tai Nguyen raised 75,000 from the button and the blinds fold.
Hand #20: Alex Barlow raised to 50,000 from under the gun. Nguyen called from the cutoff and Taylor Paur 3-bet to 142,000. Barlow reraised all in and Nguyen and Paur folded.
Hand #21: Paur raised to 48,000 from the cutoff and the button and blinds folded.
Hand #22: Nguyen raised to 75,000 from middle position and it folded around.
Hand #13: Action folded around to Taylor Paur in the hijack who raised to 40,000. Ryan Austin pushed all in from the cutoff for his final 565,000, as did Kyle Cartwright from the button for 382,000. Both blinds folded and Paur made the call.
Paur:
Austin:
Cartwright:
There was a lot of excitement as some paint came on the flop but it was for nothing. Paur's aces were still ahead and the turn sealed the fate of Austin and Cartwright. The river was irrelevant as Paur soars over two million and eliminates two players in the process.
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