Shota Nakanishi raised the button with the A?Q? and Stephen Chidwick defended the big blind with K?9?. On a flop of K?4?4?, Chidwick check-raised from 22,000 to 55,000 and Nakanishi stuck around.
The 6? turn was checked and Chidwick then bet the 2? river for 45,000. Nakanishi paid it off and Chidwick chipped up some more prior to the dinner break.
Masato Yokosawa opened to 30,000 in middle position and Chance Kornuth three-bet to 90,000 on his left. The action folded back to Yokosawa who called to see a flop of A?9?2?. Yokosawa checked to Kornuth who continued with a bet of 60,000. Yokosawa check-raised to 165,000 and Kornuth called.
The turn was the 6? and Yokosawa led out with a bet of 180,000. Kornuth still called and the 7? completed the board. Yokosawa announced a bet of 500,000 on the river which put Kornuth in the tank. With the rest of the field going on dinner break, Francisco Benitez opted to call the clock after just two minutes.
"You're calling the clock on me when it's dinner break?" Kornuth questioned. "You're just mad because I owned you in a hand."
The floor eventually arrived at the table and gave Kornuth 30 seconds to act. As the timer was expiring, Kornuth announced a call. Yokosawa turned over A?J? for the nut flush and Kornuth slammed his 500,000 chips into the middle.
"You're such a child," Kornuth continued to Benitez. "I'm gonna slow roll the s*** out of you!"
On the right hand side feature table, Shang Dai raised to 25,000 and reluctantly called the three-bet shove by Matthew Schwarmann just before the field went on dinner.
Matthew Schwarmann: K?K?
Shang Dai: A?K?
The kings were cracked on the A?10?10?5?Q? runout and Schwarmann waved goodbye.
With only 711 people showing on the clock, the field is sent on a 75-minute dinner break. When they return at 8:55 p.m. local time, two more levels of two hours each are scheduled, with a small break in between them.
In the meantime, below are some highlights from Level 18 of the WSOP Main Event.
