HomeRollpounder banked two big pots back to back then railed another three hands later to drive way up to 835k and into the leader’s seat. The first hand was A♥ K♦ busting out TimeToShip with A♠ Q♥. Though not needed, a king showed up on the flop.
Next winning hand Rollpounder raised from utg+1, bb Neel three-bet to 56.3k, Rollpounder called. On the flop 3♣ Q♥ K♣, Neel c-bet 67.5k, Rollpounder jammed 332k, Neel called with more chips to put Rollpounder at risk.
Rollpounder 10♣ Q♣
Neel A♠ A♦
The turn K♠ was good for Neel but the J♣ river was money for Rollpounder to ship it and double up to 787.8k.
The third winning pot was all in preflop. Button 107dalmatass with Q♥ J♠, Rollpounder with A♥ 10♠, the board threw blanks. Rollpounder shipped it to zoom to 846k.
ARMAND DE continued to crush the competition, railing yet another player to maintain pole position. This time it was Audrii who was all in preflop with A♠ J♣, but ARMAND DE was ahead with A♣ Q♠ that improved to a straight on the river. ARMANDE DE charges further up to 820k.
ARMAND DE and $tereo were all in preflop. ARMAND DE with 9♦ 9♥, $tereo 6♠ 6♦, the board ran 3♥ A♠ J♥ 4♥ K♥ for a winning flush to the already dominating pocket pair. $tereo busted, ARMAND DE jumps to 680k.
M.jordan23 picked off another player, this time was BladeRunner1 who min-raised from utg+1, M.jordan23 defended on the big blind. At the flop J♥ 5♥ 3♣, BladeRunner1 c-bet 11,550, Mjordan23 check-called. Same action on the 8♥ turn with M.jordan23 check-calling 40.6k. On the river, BladeRunner1 fired another 139.4k, M.jordan23 check-called. M.jordan had K♣ J♦ winning pair. BladeRunner1 A♥ 10♦. M.jordan23 claimed over 418k to rise to over 700k.
From utg SURPRISE!! raised to 12k, sb onlone20 jammed for 129,544, SURPRISE!! called to put onlyone20 at risk.
onlyone20 9♦ 9♥
SURPRISE!! A♥ Q♦
The board ran well for SURPRISE!! for a straight 10♣ 3♠ J♥ J♠ K♠. onlyone20 railed, SURPRISE!! over 530K.
At 280 remaining, three players busted during the bubble round. Hookers and cliffbooth missed the money while Loris51 had the biggest stack at fall to narrowly escape being empty handed.
Action opened with utg Kosei Ichinose raising to 10k, called by sb snooo and bb LilScrappy94. At the flop 5♦ Q♠ J♦, Ichinose c-bet 16,750, sb snooo check-raised to 45k, LilScrappy94 folded, Ichinose called. On the turn 9♥, snooo led out with a shove of 91,111, Ichinose called.
snooo K♦ Q♦ draw
Ichinose J♥ J♠
The river 5♥ was no help to snooo to bust out while Ichinose shipped it to join the leaders with over 480k.
Bad luck for miguelangelboster64 who was all in with A♦ A♣ against M.jordan23 also with A♥[as} when the cards ran 7♥ 4♥ Q♥ K♦ J♥ for a winning flush to M.jordan23. M.jordan23 catapulted to the top tier in chips.