Daniel Lawrence was left short, and he was in the big blind when he heard Jingzhi Wang shove from the small blind. He snap-called and the two players opened their cards with Lawrence at risk.
Jingzhi Wang:
Daniel Lawrence:
The board ran out with Wang hitting trips on the flop, and a full house on the river to eliminated Lawrence.
Yu Nozaki was in the small blind and decided to try and steal the blinds with a shove, when it was folded to him. On the big blind, it was Florencio Campomanes who went into the tank for many minutes, before finally announcing the call.
Yu Nozaki:
Florencio Campomanes:
The board ran out and Campomanes' ace-high held to give him the pot, and sent his opponent to the rail in 16th place.
The 15 remaining players have secured the next payjump, which is ?579,500.
Yota Mitsui was short for a long time after the redraw to the final two tables, and put the rest of his chips in the middle from the big blind, after Daniel Lawrence's raise from the cutoff, and Sahil Chuttani's shove from the small blind. Lawrence folded, and the two players went to showdown.
Sahil Chuttani:
Yota Mitsui:
The board ran out and Mitsui eliminated in 17th place.
On a flop Kelvin Yu got his last 765,000 chips in against Raymond Caabay. Caabay had flopped top pair with but Yu had flopped two pair with .
The turn and river couldn't help Caabay as Yu doubled up.
Then, on the other table, Yaanning Wu opened to 300,000 and Mike Takayama three-bet to 650,000. Wu then shoved for 815,000 and Takayama quickly called.
Yaanning Wu:
Mike Takayama:
The board came and Wu doubled up.
Back on Table 2, Yota Mitsui limped in middle position and called a shove from Caabay for just 165,000.
Raymond Caabay:
Yota Mitsui:
There was no help for Mitsui on the runout and Caabay became the fifth player in a row to double up.
Two more all in confrontations in the last hands, and both of them ended to the shortest stack of the two contestants. At first it was Raymond Caabay, who was in the big blind and called with after Chuttani's shove from the button who had .
The board ran out , and Caabay doubled up to 1.3 million.
On the other table, Bin Zhao shoved a little bit later from the cutoff holding , and Yu Nozaki called from the big blind with , to threaten his opponent's tournament life.
The board came , and Bin Zhao is up to 1.8 million.