We found Jay Kwon all in and at risk against Tommy Chen on fifth. Kwon made a 9-7-6 low on the end but was bested by Chen’s 9-7-5 which eliminated Kwon.
John Monnette moved all in on fifth with (X)(X) / . Mikhail Tulchinskiy took a while before he finally made the call with (X)(X) / . Monnette showed while Tulchinskiy was in trouble with . We missed the rest of the cards but Monnette had Tulchinskiy drawing dead at some point to secure the double up.
With our field reduced to sixteen players, the field has been redrawn down to the final two tables. A couple of the players (John Monnette) were complaining about the lack of automatic shufflers on the table, so they've been moved over to the next row to a pair of tables that have the machines built in. Here's how they're laid out.
The hand started where Mikhail Tulchinskiy completed the bring in and Scott Bohlman, Victor Ramdin, and Robert Williamson III all called. The action was now on Tommy Chen who raised and said something along the lines of “Please raise” to Tulchinskiy. This got tensions brewing as discussion began over whether what Chen said was allowed. Tulchinskiy obliged with a raise though and it was all calls until it was back on Chen who raised again. Everyone called as the players saw the next street.
On fourth, Williamson led out and received calls from Chen and Tulchinskiy but then Bohlman came in with a raise. Ramdin called all in and Williamson re-raised. Once again, everyone called the raise which formed a sidepot.
On fifth, Williamson led out again and received calls from each of his opponents. On sixth, Williamson led out once more. Tulchinskiy got out of his chair before the action was on him and began sounding off in Russian. The floor warned him that he couldn’t talk in a foreign language while he was still in the hand and he threw his cards in out of turn. Chen then folded while Bohlman called to stick around for the last street
On seventh, both players checked and Williamson revealed for an eight-six low. Bohlman mucked while Ramdin was drawing dead given Williamson's hand but showed for a ten-low.
After the hand, Chen received a one hand penalty for inducing action by another player. Tulchinskiy was given a warning for his actions and the floor also whispered something to Williamson who had yelled out
“Pick me” to the dealer before every street.
After the pot was settled, Ramdin was eliminated and Bohlman and Tulchinskiy’s stacks took a big hit while Williamson surpassed Chen as the chip leader.
Scott Bohlman completed with a up, and Tommy Chen raised to two bets with an . Bohlman called, getting short on chips now.
Bohlman: (X)(X) / / (X)
Chen: (X)(X) / / (X)
Chen bet his lead on fourth street, and Bohlman called. On fifth, Chen bet it again, and Bohlman took pause before raising all in for 31,000 total. Chen quickly called, turning up , and Bohlman's had already made a nine-low to give him the lead. He was at-risk, though, and he needed to fade the last two cards to stay alive. Sixth street was clean, and Chen pulled an on seventh to lock up Bohlman's double.
We picked up the action on fourth street, heads-up between John Monnette and Mikhail Tulchinskiy.
Monnette: () / / (X)
Tulchinskiy: () / / (X)
Tulchinskiy bet on fourth street, and Monnette raised it up. On fifth, Monnette led right back out, and Tulchinskiy raised it again. Monnette reraised for the last 7,000 chips he had behind, and the cards were shown up with Tulchinskiy's eight-six being second-best. Monnette had run down an eight-five, and Tulchinskiy threw his arms up in the air and started cursing his luck in machine-gun Russian. He pulled king-ace on the last two streets, no help. Monnette drew ten-nine, and he didn't need any help.
After granting that double up, Tulchinskiy was left with just 6,500 lonely chips. He was all in as the bring-in on the next hand, and he ran pretty poorly once again. His board came / / to make an ugly king-low for his tournament life. Fortunately for him, his opponent Tommy Chen drew just as poorly, running out an even uglier / / board to keep Tulchinskiy in the game with about 30,000.
Tommy Chen completed with a up, and Mikhail Tulchinskiy raised all in for 17,000 showing a . Chen called, and the boards were run out.
Chen: / / (X)
Tulchinskiy: / / (X)
By the time seventh street rolled around, Tulchinskiy was already in trouble with the second-best hand. Chen flipped his river card first, a , and that left Tulchinskiy drawing deat. He picked up a bad on seventh, anyways, slapping it down on the felt and storming away from the table in a tirade. He spoke to Mikhail Smirnov at the adjacent table, sputtering his story as fast as he could get the words out of his mouth.
After he was handed his payout slip, a frustrated Tulchinskiy took a lap around the Amazon Room, kicking over the odd chair as he let off a little post-elimination steam. He's out in 16th place.
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. Mikhail Tulchinskiy took a while before he finally made the call with (X)(X) / 
while Tulchinskiy was in trouble with 
. We missed the rest of the cards but Monnette had Tulchinskiy drawing dead at some point to secure the double up.
/ (X)