Daniel Pearlman raised from under the gun to 180,000, and Kinesh Pather defended from the small blind. The flop was K♣9♠2♥ and Pather checked, while Pearlman bet 125,000. Pather called.
Both players checked the turn Q♥.
On the river 4♥, Pather took a stab for 200,000, and Pearlman was the caller this time.
Pearlman turned over A♦Q♦ for a pair of queens, and Pather held K♦10♦ for a pair of kings and the win.
Eric Wang raised from early position to 200,000, and Ricardo Padilla defended from the big blind. The entire board 7♥6♥10♥5♠2♣ was checked by both players.
Wang turned over A♦K♦ for ace high and the win, as Padilla mucked.
Kenneth Sikes opened to 200,000 from under the gun. Joseph Palma on the button shoved all in for 90,000. Anthony Harnden in the big blind replied with another all-in shove for around 875,000. Sikes called taking them to showdown.
Joseph Palma: A♥J♦ 
Anthony Harnden: A♣K♠
Kenneth Sikes: A♠J♠
Harnden stayed in the lead on the 5♦9♦10♠. It got strengthened when the K♣ fell on the turn. The 3♣ river completed the board, ensuring Harnden's double-up and sending Palma to the payout counter.
Scott Ruegsegger raised to 225,000 from middle position. David Berman moved all in from the big blind with 1,625,000 chips.
Ruegsegger made the call.
David Berman: A♥Q♠
Scott Ruegsegger: 8♥8♠
The classic race swung quickly as the first community card seen was a queen, but the last card of the flop was an eight, swinging all back to Ruegsegger, who added more to his growing stack winning with a set in a runout of Q♦6♥8♦J♠9♥.
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The hand was picked up with Lejdin Fazlibegu raising all in for 520,000 on the button over a raise from Boutros Awad in the cutoff. Awad made the call.
Lejdin Fazlibegu: J♥9♥
Boutros Awad: 3♣3♠
The pocket threes were ahead in the race and stayed that way through a runout of 10♦K♥K♣4♣6♦, giving Awad the knockout.
The hand was picked up with Farzad Bonyadi covering an all-in from James Rone.
James Rone: A♦3♠
Farzad Bonyadi: A♣K♠
With a dominated ace, all roads led to Rone getting knocked out, and that was indeed the case in a runout of Q♦2♣6♣6♦10♠.
Level: 27
Blinds: 40,000/80,000
Ante: 80,000
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