On the flop, Chamath Palihapitiya was all in for 426,000 and called by Hoi Lee. Palihapitiya held the and Lee the . The turn was the and the river the . With that jack on the turn, Palihapitiya was able to crack Lee's aces and double up.
Philipp Hochhuth, the man with the double letters, was looking for a near-double-up with . He opened to 25,000 from early position, and Richard Lyndaker three-bet to 72,000 from the small blind. Hochhuth shoved all in for just about 450,000, and Lyndaker called with a slightly smaller stack. He had , and Hochhuth had some work to do. Jacks into aces again.
The board ran out blanks, coming , and the aces hold to give Lyndaker the double.
Brian Park was all in preflop for 270,000 with the . He was up against the dominating that Timothy Adams held. The board ran out and Adams won the hand. Park was eliminated and Adams climbed to 1.15 million in chips.
Paul Chauderson raised in early position, and a reraise forced the last 250,000 of his chips into the middle. He was working with for his tournament life, and he'd soon become just another victim of the fishhooks. It was Thomas Pedersen with the , and the board earned him the knockout, increasing his stack to 1.221 million in the process.
On the flop, Sam Barnhart and Hilton Laborda checked before action fell on Nicolas Fierro. He fired 80,000 and Barnhart folded. Laborda then raised to 200,000. Fierro made the call.
The turn was the and Laborda bet 215,000. Fierro tanked for a little bit and then asked Laborda if he had ace-king. Fierro folded eventually and Laborda tabled the for just six high.
We found Cory Albertson all in preflop for 147,000 and at risk against Jeet Shetty.
Albertson:
Shetty:
Shetty was behind and it stayed that way through the flop. The on the turn gave a nice sweat as Shetty could now knock out Albertson with any queen, ten or club. The river was the though and Albertson doubled up with his top-top.
Evan McNiff opened for 27,000 from the cutoff, then Carter King reraised all in from the button. It folded back to McNiff who snap-called, showing . Bad timing for King, who had .
The flop came , leaving King looking for running cards to survive. But the turn was the , making the river no matter, and King hit the rail.
McNiff was back in action on the next hand, five-betting Elder out of a hand preflop to pick up still more chips. He up to 1.932 million now.
We're not sure how the action went down, but we do know that Shinwon Kim was all in preflop for his last 190,000 and squaring off against Jonathan Godfrey.
Showdown
Godfrey:
Kim:
Start your engines, because it's off to the races! Kim was ahead and needed to stave off paint cards, but the exact opposite happened as the flop fell . The turn left Kim looking for a nine on the river, but it didn't happen as another paint card, the , appeared on the river.
Kim exited the Amazone Room while Godfrey increased his stack to 975,000.
In an all Canadian battle, Jonathan Pinx opened for 56,000 and Tri Huynh re-raised to a whopping 600,000 with six tall stacks of orange T5000 chips, enough to put Pinx all in. The ESPN camera crew came around to catch the action as Pinx stood up and began talking with Huynh back and forth. Eventually, Pinx folded and Huynh said he’d show if Pinx showed. Pinx said he didn’t care until Hyunh flipped over the and then Pinx showed a five himself with the . Unfortunately, the players didn’t flip their other cards so we are left to guess what each might have had.