Jiyang Gan shoved all in under the gun with 51,000 chips. Aliaksandr Shylko made the call from the hijack. The rest of the table folded.
Jiyang Gan: 4♠4♦
Aliaksandr Shylko: J♥J♠
Gan, with the smaller pair, was in trouble. The runout of 9♠3♣K♠7♦7♥ didn't rescue him.
Aliaksandr Shylko raised to 12,000 from middle position and David Peters three-bet to 59,000 from the small blind. The big blind folded, but Shylko made the call.
Action checked when the flop came A♣K♦4♠. The 5♥ came on the turn and Peters checked again, but Shylko bet 75,000. Peters called. Both players checked on the Q♠ river, and Peters tabled K♥K♠ for a set.
Shylko smirked whilst folding his hand.
Fahredin Mustafov opened to 18,000 from under the gun, and Kully Sidhu called in the small blind. Paul Lagan defended his big blind, and the A♦5♣10♥ flop was fanned out.
Sidhu and Lagan checked to Mustafov, who continued with a bet of 20,000. Both blinds called to the 9♥ turn, and all three players checked.
One last check from Sidhu was met with a bet of 50,000 from Lagan. Mustafov did not take long to fold, while Sidhu did the same and Lagan added more chips to his growing stack.
Elior Sion limped in the small blind, and Justin Liberto raised from the big blind to 24,000. Sion made the call, and checked the J♦A♣9♠ flop.
Liberto slid out a bet of 12,000, and Sion called before the 2♣ led to a pair of checks.
Sion led out on the Q♥ river, making it 25,000. Liberto then raised enough to put his opponent all in, and Sion went into the tank. After taking some time, Sion opted to let his hand go and the pot was sent to Liberto.
Level: 16
Blinds: 4,000/8,000
Ante: 8,000
The game at Jimmy D'Ambrosio's table slowed to a crawl when he was the least interested, as he had just 8,000 in chips.
On one hand, Jiyang Gan went deep to determine if he should call a Nick Yunis raise. When the tank reached the "I fold, you show?" stage, someone called for the clock. Gan relinquished the hand.
On the next hand, D'Ambrosio moved all of his chips into the pot and waited for Gan and Xixiang Luo to play out the slow-developing side pot.
With 97 players left and 84 to be in the money, D'Ambrosio joked said, "You guys tank so much that I'm gonna make it to the money with this one big blind."
The flop hit 9♠K♣4♦ and Luo bet 10,000. Gan called.
When the 6♣ landed on the turn, Luo bet 17,000. Gan raised to 50,000. Luo folded, leaving Gan and D'Ambrosio heads-up.
Jimmy D'Ambrosio: A♠10♦
Jiyang Gan: A♦4♠
Gan had paired the little kicker to his ace. The 3♠ on the river was inconsequential and D'Ambrosio was done.
Kenzo Ishida raised to 12,000 from under the gun, Ethan Yau called on the button before Joao Simao raised to 54,000 from the small blind. Ishida folded but Yau made the call.
Simao check-called a bet of 45,000 when the flop came 6♥2♠3♥, and both players checked when the Q♠ hit the turn. Simao decided to bet 102,000 on the A♣ river which got a quick fold from Yau.
Igor Kurganov raised to 12,000 on the button. After small blind Denys Chufarin got out of the way, Leo Soma three-bet to 44,000 from the big.
Kurganov asked out loud why the raise was to 44,000 instead of 40,000 or 45,000, then shoved all in over the top of it.
Soma, who had the smaller stack with 169,000 chips, quickly threw in a call.
Leo Soma: A♥A♠
Igor Kurganov: K♠10♠
Kurganov needed help to track down Soma's aces, but the runout 5♣9♣6♥A♣8♠ didn't deliver, and their stacks were flip-flopped.
Thomas Boivin raised from under the gun to 12,000, and Alex Keating three-bet to 36,000 as next to act. Boivin then four-bet to 92,000, and Keating stuck in a call.
Boivin led out on the 2♥3♦Q♦ flop, continuing for 45,000. Keating raised to 100,000, and the call was made.
The dealer flipped over the 7♣ turn, where both players checked. Boivin took some time after the 6♥ river and moved all but 10,000 of his stack into the middle.
Keating responded by announcing all in, and Boivin tossed in his final chips while showing down A♥A♦. Keating tabled 3♣3♥ for a set, and Boivin wished the table good luck on his way to the rail.
Xixiang Luo raised to 12,000 on the button and Jimmy D'Ambrosio defended his big blind with a call.
The flop came 9♠9♦4♠, and Luo fired out a bet of 6,000, and D'Ambrosio called. The 4♥ on the turn did not change the betting action and Luo fired out a bet of 10,000.
D'Ambrosio said, "I feel like you're milking me. I have a good hand, but now I don't know," then folded.
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