Allen Chang pushed his short stack of 6,800 all in preflop from the small blind after a raise from Bruce Antman. Antman called and flipped up . Chang showed .
Almost all the dealers had stood up except for one over on table 363, who had just announced that there was an all-in and a call between Claudio Rinaldi and Henry Lu.
Rinaldi had attempted to make a four-bet shove light with , but was snapped off by Lu who had him dominated with . The flop was a gut-wrenching , but Lu found the antacid he needed when the spiked on the turn, giving him Broadway and leaving Rinaldi drawing dead. The river was merely there for aesthetics.
There was a long wait and the room almost fell silent while the staff checked that the numbers were correct, until the announcement went up from the floorman: "Congratulations players, you're in the money!"
The players were euphoric, but the moment was brief though, as once the dealers sat back down, it was right back down to business!
The action folded around to Erica Schoenberg who open-shoved for her last 32,000 before the flop; an opponent called from late position with , but Schoenberg had him dominated with which held all the way down the board of to see her double up.
With only a handful of eliminations to go until the money, our field reporter found Kevin Schulz all-in preflop for the last of his chips holding , but he had run into the of Kirill Rabtsov.
Both hands hit the flush on the board of , but Rabtsov's king was best and Schulz was sent to the rail.
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and his opponent showed 
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. Chang showed 
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spiked on the turn, giving him Broadway and leaving Rinaldi drawing dead. The river 
, but Schoenberg had him dominated with 
to see her double up.
of Kirill Rabtsov.
