Todd Brunson raised to 40,000 in middle position. Yu Liu called on the button and bet 35,000 on the 6♣10♥2♣ flop once Brunson had checked.
Brunson called, after which the 5♣ turn and 4♦ river were checked to showdown. Brunson tabled 2♠2♥ for a set of deuces, raking in the pot once his opponent mucked.
Ryusei Fujimoto raised to 40,000 from middle position and was three-bet to 110,000 by Jeremy Hyman on the button. Action folded back to Fujimoto, who moved all in for approximately 400,000. Hyman asked for a quick count and then called to put Fujimoto at risk.
Ryusei Fujimoto: Q♦Q♥
Jeremy Hyman: A♥K♠
It was a fair fight between two premium hands, but the 3♦8♠A♣ flop immediately paired Hyman's ace to pull him into a commanding lead.
Neither the 5♥ turn nor 9♠ river changed anything and Fujimoto was eliminated early on Day 5.
Players were three-ways on the 4♦2♦Q♣ flop with a pot of 150,000. Richard Kellett had bet 60,000 from the small blind and Brian Yoon raised to 180,000 from early position.
Action went to Phillip Mighall who was in the cutoff, and he called, as did Kellett. The J♣ was turned and action checked to Mighall who moved out 425,000.
Both players opted to fold and Yoon said "Ah he had a set of fours". Mighall replied "No, I was worried he [Kellett] had a set!" Another player at the table remarked, "That was a big boy bet there!"
Michael Mizrachi raised to 40,000 under the gun. Bradley Oubre called in the hijack before Voor three-bet to 140,000 in the small blind. Mizrachi moved all in for 485,000, quickly getting rid of Oubre's A♥10♠.
Voor spent some time in the tank, then called with the covering stack.
Michael Mizrachi: Q♠Q♣
Andrew Voor: K♦10♦
Mizrachi just needed to fade a king to double up, and he successfully did so when the 5♠8♠3♥6♣2♥ board presented no danger to his queens.
Mads Wissing raised to 40,000 from early position to see Artur Martirosian raise to 120,000 in late position. In the cutoff, Knut Karnapp moved all in for 130,000 to see action fold back around to Wissing who raised to 320,000, prompting an instant fold from Martirosian.
Knut Karnapp: Q♠Q♥
Mads Wissing: A♥A♦
The board ran out K♣J♣10♠8♠5♥ and the aces held up for Wissing to send out Karnapp.
Sasha Liu raised to 40,000 from middle position and John Hardie three-bet to 110,000 from the hijack. Liu came along with a call.
Liu checked the 9♦3♦8♣ flop, and Hardie fired 135,000. Liu continued with a call.
Both players checked the 5♣ turn and A♠ river. Liu tabled 9♣7♣ for a pair of nines, but Hardie had her beat with Q♦Q♠ for a pair of queens to win the pot.
Karanvir Singh raised to 40,000 in early position and Xingyu Liu three-bet to 120,000 in middle position. Vy Nguyen then four-bet to 250,000 in the cutoff, and both Singh and Liu called.
Liu bet 160,000 on the 2♥6♠8♦ flop, and Nguyen and Singh called. All three players then checked the Q♣ turn.
The river was the 3♠ and Singh led out for 225,000. Liu quickly folded, while Nguyen tanked for several minutes before emerging with a raise to 650,000.
"Ah man, so tilting," Singh said as he tossed his cards away, and Nguyen took down the big pot without a showdown.
Thomas Clack opened to 40,000 from middle position and Masato Yokosawa called from the hijack.
The 3♣6♥4♥ flop saw action check to the 6♦ turn. Clack bet 85,000 and Yokosawa quickly called to see the 4♣ river.
Clack checked, Yokosawa paused, before jamming and covering Clack's remaining 575,000. Clack didn't take long to muck his hand, and the pot went to Yokosawa.
Patrick McDaid raised to 40,000 under the gun and faced a three-bet to 130,000 from Adam Kharman on the button. When the action returned to McDaid, he four-bet to 300,000, which put an end to the contest, as Kharman folded.
The very next shuffle, it was Moonho Seo's turn to raise under the gun, making it 60,000. Matthew Lapossie was the only player to call, doing so from the small blind.
Lapossie checked over to Seo on a 3♥8♦7♣ flop, and quickly folded when Seo continued with a bet of 85,000.
When he wasn't milking cows on his family dairy farm in Windsor, Texas, Mason Vieth was playing poker at the nearest casino in Thackerville, Oklahoma.
"I grew up milking the cows and playing poker at WinStar World Casino," the former dairy farmer told PokerNews. "I would stay up all night playing poker, then go milk them, then go back. Three days in a row most of the time. No sleep."
Those hard-earned poker chops are now paying off for Vieth, better known as "Milkman," — as embroidered on his royal blue cap —who is one of 533 players who advanced to Day 5 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event.
PokerNews caught up with Vieth during a break on Day 4 as he chased his first bracelet and life-changing money in an event that will award $10 million.
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