Catching the action on a full board 6♥ K♦ K♣ 3♣ 7♥, Madhav Gupta bet 20k onto a big pot already weighing down the center, Roger Spets tank-called. Gupta showed K♥ Q♠ trips, Spets mucked.
On a raised pot preflop to 18k, the board showed A♦ Q♦ J♥, the blinds checked, utg Alex Lindpop bet 8k, and only sb Bobby Zhang called. On the 10♠ turn, no bets landed. On the river 2♠, Lindop bet 11.5k and won it with no challenge from Zhang.
Catching the action at the shipping, short stacked Jin Yong was getting paid for his K♦ J♥ on a board of 2♣ 5♥ 7♦ 6♠ K♠ against Rex Clinkscales Q-J.
Crazy boards induces plenty of reactions from the players. Czardy Rivera was all in with A♦ 8♥ and Matt Ericson was ahead with 3♣ 3♠. When the flop came down A♣ 8♠ 9♥, an immediate two pair “OH” was heard at the table. The turn 3♦ “Oooh” was heard next with Rivera’s two pair now dominated by Ericson’s set. Then the river 8♦ “Whoah!” With Rivera overtaking with a higher full house to double up.
Tamon Nakamura ended his run here at the hands of Anthony Thong Boon Tee. After a raise, re-raise, all in… Tee A♣ K♥, Nakamura K♦ Q♦, the board bricked and out went Nakamura. Tee now at 218k.
Jim Bonanno and Daniel Lim met again and this time Bonanno claimed it with a dominating set over set hand. Boanno had 5-5, Lim with 2-2, the board 8♣ 2♦ 5♣ K♥ 6♠. Bonanno climbed to around 150k, Lim dropped to 50k.
Rex Clinkscales shipped in all of a player’s chips to bring him up to 225k. On a raised pot preflop t0 19k, the cards spread 2♦ J♥ 8♥. Big blind checked, mp player bet 9500, Clinkscales raised to 23k, bb folded, mp all in, Clinkscales called with more chips. Mp had A♠ 8♥ mid pair, Clinkscales A♥ 9♥ heart draw. The K♠ was safe for mp but the river 10♥ completed the flush.
The players are on a quick break here. Bobby Zhang leads the 28 remaining players. He sits with an enormous 450k stack.
Stephen Miles lost back-to-back pots that sent him out of the running. His first loss was to Matt Ericson who raised to 4500, Miles three-bet to 13k, Ericson four-bet pushed, and Miles quickly folded.
His next hand saw Aditya Sushant raise to 4500, Miles all in for 50.5k, Sushant called. Sushant A♦ Q♥, Miles 9♣ 9♦, the board ran Q♦ 2♣ 2♠ 8♠ 6♣.