Over on table 370, we witnessed another big all-in-preflop situation between Hungarian Team PokerStars Pro Richard Toth and Patrick Spinelli; Toth had Spinelli covered and tabled , but would need a lot of help against Spinelli's .
The flop of improved neither hand, but the appeared on the turn to give Toth extra outs. Needing either a jack or ten to win, or the six to chop, the river was a useless and Spinelli doubled up.
Sean Liebscher went all-in for his last 11,000 from early position preflop with and the action folded around to Garrett Beckman who snap-called from the big blind wtih .
Fortunately for Liebscher, he caught a runner-runner flush down the board of to double up and stay alive.
Daniel Kelly opened to 2,800 in early position, a middle position player raised to 6,000 and Claudio Rinaldi four-bet all in for just under 20,000 from the small blind. Kelly called Rinaldi's all in and the mid position player folded.
Rinaldi turned over and Kelly held . The board ran dry for Kelly going and he shipped a large stack of chips over to Rinaldi.
Tai Phan is down to just a handful of chips after running into what can only be described as the uber-cooler.
"Holy macaroni and cheeseburgers!" Phan shouted, making us jump out of our chair at media row. We rushed over and saw that Phan had moved all-in preflop with , but was snapped off by Jon Zigler who tabled !
"What did I do wrong?" Phan asked.
"Nothing, man, you did everything right," said another player, "There's nothing you can do there."
The board was an uneventful , but fortunately Phan was able to double up a short time later when his held up against another player who called out of the blinds with .
With only a handful of eliminations to go until the money, our field reporter found Kevin Schulz all-in preflop for the last of his chips holding , but he had run into the of Kirill Rabtsov.
Both hands hit the flush on the board of , but Rabtsov's king was best and Schulz was sent to the rail.
The action folded around to Erica Schoenberg who open-shoved for her last 32,000 before the flop; an opponent called from late position with , but Schoenberg had him dominated with which held all the way down the board of to see her double up.
Almost all the dealers had stood up except for one over on table 363, who had just announced that there was an all-in and a call between Claudio Rinaldi and Henry Lu.
Rinaldi had attempted to make a four-bet shove light with , but was snapped off by Lu who had him dominated with . The flop was a gut-wrenching , but Lu found the antacid he needed when the spiked on the turn, giving him Broadway and leaving Rinaldi drawing dead. The river was merely there for aesthetics.
There was a long wait and the room almost fell silent while the staff checked that the numbers were correct, until the announcement went up from the floorman: "Congratulations players, you're in the money!"
The players were euphoric, but the moment was brief though, as once the dealers sat back down, it was right back down to business!
Allen Chang pushed his short stack of 6,800 all in preflop from the small blind after a raise from Bruce Antman. Antman called and flipped up . Chang showed .
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, but would need a lot of help against Spinelli's 
.
improved neither hand, but the 
appeared on the turn to give Toth extra outs. Needing either a jack or ten to win, or the six to chop, the river was a useless 
and Spinelli doubled up.
and the action folded around to Garrett Beckman who snap-called from the big blind wtih 
.
to double up and stay alive.
. The board ran dry for Kelly going 
, but was snapped off by Jon Zigler who tabled 
!
, but fortunately Phan was able to double up a short time later when his 
.
, but Schoenberg had him dominated with 
. The flop was a gut-wrenching 
.