As per WSOP LIVE app.
As per WSOP LIVE app.
The remaining 10 players are now heading into their first 15-minute break of the day.
During the break, there will be a color-up of the 5,000 chips, and play will resume with the new blind level of 100,000/200,000 and a 200,000 big blind ante.
Timur Margolin opened from under the gun, and Erik Seidel moved all in from the cutoff. Nobody else wanted to join the party, sending the two players heads-up to showdown.
Erik Seidel: A♣K♥
Timur Margolin: 9♣9♦
Seidel needed some help from the board to stay alive, but the runout 9♥Q♥5♣Q♠4♦ improved Margolin to a full house. Seidel's tournament life came to an end, while Margolin collected the pot.
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Timur Margolin limped from the small blind and Eric Yanovsky checked his option from the big to see a flop of J♠J♥2♣.
The former led out for 150,000 and then called when the latter raised to 375,000, which brought about the 8♥ turn.
Margolin checked and then folded when Yanovsky bet 725,000.
Paulius Vaitiekunas opened from under the gun to 300,000, and Erik Seidel in the big blind was the only player to come along to the 9♦10♣7♣ flop.
Both players checked the flop, and the 2♣ landed on the turn.
Seidel led out for 425,000, and Vaitiekunas made the call.
The 8♦ completed the board, and both players checked once more. Vaitiekunas turned over A♠9♣ for a pair of nines, which was enough to take down the pot.
Level: 22
Blinds: 100,000/150,000
Ante: 150,000
Daniel Rezaei kicked things off with a button raise to 240,000 and got a call from Kristen Foxen in the big blind.
On the Q♣2♥A♥ flop, Foxen check-called a continuation-bet of 150,000 from Rezaei.
Foxen checked again on the 6♦ turn, and Rezaei fired out a bet of 1,000,000. Foxen took some time to think, using one time bank card before raising to 2,300,000. Rezaei made the call.
The 5♣ completed the board, and both players checked. Foxen's cards immediately went into the muck, meaning no hand was shown, and Rezaei collected another pot to add to his chip-leading stack.
Daniel Negreanu has strung together a series of smaller pots, but they've added up nicely to move him up the counts.
In a recent hand, Negreanu limped the small blind and Timur Margolin checked his option from the big to see a flop of K♣2♦7♦.
Negreanu led out for 120,000 and called when Margolin raised to 300,000, which brought about the 8♠ on the turn.
Action went check-check and then repeated itself on the 10♣ river.
Negreanu tabled the J♥7♠ for a pair of sevens and it was good as Margolin sent his hand to the muck.