On the first hand back from the dinner break, action folded to Giuseppe Pastura on the button. He raised to 38,000. Garry "Beast Mode" Gates was in the small blind and reraised to 130,000. Pastura then reraised to put Gates all in. Gates made the call for all of his chips and put himself at risk for 414,000.
Gates held the for two over cards to the that Pastura held and it was a race for Gates' tournament life.
The cameras swarmed the table and began filming the action. The flop came down and so far, Pastura's jacks stayed in front, leaving Gates with just the turn and river to stay alive.
Fourth street was the and paired the board, but changed absolutely nothing. Gates now had one card to catch an ace or a queen in order to double up.
The river...
...was the . That was the end of the line for Gates as he failed to improve. He wished the table good luck and exited to the rail. Pastura moved to about 2.7 million in chips while Gates walked away with $47,107 in prize money.
The same group has returned to the main feature table -- Allen Cunningham, Jacob Bazeley, Ruben Visser, Rupert Elder, Patrick Coughlin, Evan McNiff, Bolivar Palacios, and Jean-Robert Bellande -- but we have a new line-up seated around the secondary feature table now.
Here's the new group seated there, along with their current stacks:
The cards are back in the air with ten minutes left in level 21. The players will then play the first hour of level 22, take a ten minute break and then complete the last hour of of the level to end the day.
The 175 players or so left are now on an hour and 50 minute dinner break. Ben Lamb took the chip lead for a bit that he's had at numerous points throughout the Main Event. But if you'd like some ketchup with your lamb, it's Pius Heinz who has been near the top of the leaderboard all day as the only man currently above the four million chip point.
Among the 40 players or so to have hit the rail since last break was most notably Daniel Negreanu who was at the feature table all day up until his bustout. Negreanu was down to his last 95,000 and got it in good preflop with against Rupert Elder’s . The flop was clean but the turn was a fateful and the on the river was of no help to Negreanu who was eliminated.
Besides Negreanu, Richard Lyndaker, Kevin Saul, Paul Volpe, Joe Tehan and Matt Stout all hit the rail too since the last break.
We will have chip counts of hopefully all of the players coming to you shortly so stay tuned for that while you enjoy the dinner break. Play will resume at 8:15 p.m. PST so be sure to join us back then too.
On the last hand before dinner break at his table, Hilton Laborda raised to 40,000 in the cutoff and Fabio Sousa moved all in for 244,000 from the big blind and Laborda made the call.
Laborda:
Sousa:
Sousa was racing for his tournament life but was in awful shape after the flop came down as he needed running straight or flush cards plus the board not to pair to survive. The on the turn was the best card in the deck for Sousa as it gave him both flush and straight outs now. The river was the and Sousa nailed his flush to double up
We caught up with the action on the turn on a board, where Duane Alexander bet 85,000 from early position and was met with an all-in shove from Tony Hachem for 667,000 total. Alexander asked for a count, but as the dealer began counting he announced, "I call."
Hachem tabled for a set, much to the disgust of Alexander, who flipped over .
The bricked for Alexander and he was forced to surrender a monster portion of his stack.
Hachem is up to 1,334,000 while Alexander has slid to 520,000.
Bryan Colin was recently moved over to the secondary feature table, and soon after found himself all in before the flop for his last 240,000 with and up against David Barter's .
The flop came , pairing Colin. The turn was the and the river the , and Colin survives, pushing back up around 500,000. Barter still maintains a large 3 million-ish stack, however.
Meanwhile, over on the main feature table a short-stacked Ralph Robinson pushed all in for his last 117,000 with and needed to catch versus Jacob Bazeley's .
Unfortunately for Robinson, no ace came for him as the ran out . Bazeley moves up just over the 1 million mark with that pot.
Nathan Meyvis raised to 35,000 from middle position only to be met with an all-in three bet from Robert Peltecki in the hijack. The blinds got out of the way and Meyvis made the call.
Showdown
Meyvis:
Peltecki:
While the kept Peltecki in the lead, it did give Meyvis a gut-shot straight draw to go along with his overs. The was a safe card as far as Peltecki was concerned, as was the river.
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for two over cards to the 
that Pastura held and it was a race for Gates' tournament life.
and so far, Pastura's jacks stayed in front, leaving Gates with just the turn and river to stay alive.
and paired the board, but changed absolutely nothing. Gates now had one card to catch an ace or a queen in order to double up.
. That was the end of the line for Gates as he failed to improve. He wished the table good luck and exited to the rail. Pastura moved to about 2.7 million in chips while Gates walked away with $47,107 in prize money.
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and the 
on the river was of no help to Negreanu who was eliminated.
flop came down as he needed running straight or flush cards plus the board not to pair to survive. The 
on the turn was the best card in the deck for Sousa as it gave him both flush and straight outs now. The river was the 
board, where Duane Alexander bet 85,000 from early position and was met with an all-in shove from Tony Hachem for 667,000 total. Alexander asked for a count, but as the dealer began counting he announced, "I call."
bricked for Alexander and he was forced to surrender a monster portion of his stack.
and up against David Barter's 
.
, and Colin survives, pushing back up around 500,000. Barter still maintains a large 3 million-ish stack, however.
and needed to catch versus Jacob Bazeley's 
.
. Bazeley moves up just over the 1 million mark with that pot.
was a safe card as far as Peltecki was concerned, as was the 