Daniel Negreanu has steadily been chipping up most of the day, and making hands like this certainly helps.
The action of the hand was unknown, but a pot was being pushed to him as he held K?J?3?2? in the blinds with a board of A?10?5?Q?4? in the middle of the table, giving Negreanu a steel wheel, a five-high straight flush.
Jen Harman: XxXx/A?A?K?J?/Xx
Norman Chad: XxXx/6?9?9?K?/Xx
Yueqi Zhu: XxXx/4?6?3?6?/Xx
Dzmitry Urbanovich: XxXx/7?10?2?10?/Xx
Christopher Chung: XxXx/10?4?A?Q? - folded
Norman Chad and Jen Harman were both all in on third street as Christopher Chung raised on fourth, Dzmitry Urbanovich called, then Yueqi Zhu reraised.
Both Chung and Urbanovich called to fifth, where Zhu bet again. Both opponents called.
"It's a killing field," Chad said heading to sixth, where Zhu bet again. Chung and Urbanovich stuck around and called, then faced another bet by Zhu on seventh.
Chung folded, but Urbanovich came back with a raise. Zhu called with 5?2? for the low, while Urbanovich had 10?8?7? for a full house to take the high and send Chad and Harman to the rail.
Defending champion Andrew Yeh is also at this table, as is Scott Seiver.
Craig Chait, runner-up in this event last year, was all in preflop as Thomas Taylor in the hijack and another opponent in the cutoff built a side pot heading to the 3?Q?5? flop.
The cutoff bet and Taylor called. The turn came the 4? and Taylor now led out with a bet. His opponent called, then folded to another bet by Taylor on the K? river.
Taylor turned over 5?5? for the flopped set. "You're good," Chait said as he tossed his 10?9? into the muck before heading for the exit.
Reigning PPC champion Brian Rast's seat at this table is also unoccupied, and he has also hit the rail on Day 1.
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Yufei Zhong completed on third street and was called by Christopher Claassen and Koray Aldemir.
Zhong continued betting on fourth and fifth, with both opponents calling down to sixth. Claassen now opened the betting, Aldemir folded, but Zhong stuck around to seventh.
Claassen bet again and Zhong slammed down his board and pushed it into the middle.
Carol Fuchs: XxQxQx10xJx10xQx
Andrew Kelsall: KxKx8x2x8xXxXx
Andrew Kelsall's seat was recently seen empty and his former tablemates including his executioner Carol Fuchs kindly passed along the information of the hand.
Kallsall was all in on third street for his last 9,000 chips, and was ahead until seventh street with his kings and eights versus Fuchs queens and tens.
Fuchs however hit another queen on seventh to fill up and send Kelsall to the rail.
The always thoughtful Fuchs did tell PokerNews that she did feel bad about eliminating Kelsall with that bad beat
John Hennigan: XxXx/Q?10?4?Q?
Yuri Dzivielevski: XxXx/9?A?7?5? - folded sixth street
Picking action up on fourth street, Poker Hall of Famer John Hennigan called bets from recent $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. champion, Yuri Dzivielevski on fourth and fifth, then pairing his door card queen on sixth, Hennigan led with a bet himself.
Dzivielevski took some time to think, but ultimately folded his hand to send the pot to Hennigan.