Randy Lew opened for 2,300 from the hijack seat and found one caller in Dag Martin Mikkelsen in the big blind.
The flop came and both players checked.
The turn brought the and Mikkelsen check-called a 2,800 bet from Lew.
When the completed the board, Mikkelsen checked once more - prompting a 6,800 bet from Lew. Mikkelsen tank-called and Lew flipped over for jacks-full of tens. Mikkelsen mucked and Lew scooped the pot.
In the last hand before the break, Paul Volpe raised from middle position, then the player in the cutoff reraised to 6,100. It folded back to Volpe who made it 19,000 to go, his opponent shoved all in, and Volpe snap-called.
Volpe's opponent showed , but Volpe had the better pair with . As players filed out of the Amazon room, the community cards came , and Volpe's opponent won't be returning from the break. Meanwhile, Volpe cracks a quarter million.
Christophe De Meulder opened the action to 2,200 and the player on the button made the call. It was then on the small blind and he three-bet to 8,800. Back on De Meulder and he would four-bet to 15,400. The button was out of the way by this point and the small blind would shove all in for around 40,000. De Meulder call and the two players turned their hands over.
De Meulder:
Opponent:
It was a good spot for De Meulder and it stayed that way as a board full of bricks sent him the nice pot.
Ron Pease called a 2,100-chip raise from the cutoff, and 2011 World Series of Poker Player of the Year and November Niner Ben "Benba" Lamb three-bet to 9,600 from the big blind. Pease four-bet to 22,700, and Lamb five-bet shoved. Pease called.
Pease
Lamb
The board ran out , Pease was eliminated, and Lamb is now above 200,000 chips.
Nam Le raised it up to 2,200 in the cutoff, and the button three bet to 6,200 with about 35,000 behind. The blinds got out of the way, and it was back to Le. He announced all in for about 60,000, and his opponent spent about 30 seconds in the tank before kicking his cards in.
On the next hand, a player in middle position raised to 2,200, and Le was next to act. He kept the pressure going with a three bet to 6,200, and it folded back around to the original raiser. Again, Le saw no further action, as his opponent folded.
After taking down those two pots, Le is up to 72,000.
When we arrived at Amit Makhija's table there was already a board on the felt and a sizable pot building with Makhija going up against one opponent. Makhija was on the button and bet 25,000 when his opponent checked. The player thought for a long time before making the call, which prompted Makhija to table . His opponent showed a and slid his cards into the muck as Makhija scooped up the pot.
Antonio Esfandiari is of course fresh off his win in the $1,000,000 Big One For One Drop, and it looks like he's keeping that momentum going through the Main Event. We just caught him winning a big pot that has propelled him up to 250,000.
Action folded around to Antonio Esfandiari raising it up to 2,200 in the cutoff, and the player on the button was the only caller. The flop came down , and Esfandiari fired out 3,400. His opponent tossed in the call, and the turn brought the . Esfandiari kept the aggression up, as he led out for 8,600. His opponent tanked for about 30 seconds before tossing in the call.
The river brought the , and after about 20 seconds of thought, Esfandiari announced all in. There was about 40,000 in the pot, and his opponent had about 50,000 left behind, so it was an overbet to the pot. This sent his opponent deep into the tank. He counted out his entire chip stack, then slid his chips forward after about three minutes of thought.
Esfandiari tabled for a flopped set, and his opponent mucked his cards, and slid his chips over to the Magician.
We caught up with the action on a board of board to see Joseph Cheong bet 4,300. His opponent put out a raise that made it 13,100 to go. Cheong called and the two were off to the river.
The spike the river and Cheong checked. His opponent bet 29,000 and Cheong went into the tank. Cheong thought for about three minutes before his opponent called the clock and the floor came over. The floorman informed Cheong that he had sixty seconds left to act on his hand and Cheong stills at motionless.
About thirty seconds into the time, Cheong quickly announced that he was all in, which in fact was all in for his opponent who had about 60,000 behind. Cheong's opponent called.
"Nut flush," said Cheong, showing . His opponent tabled and made a quick exit out of the Amazon room.
"Sorry," Cheong continued. "I really didn't know if I should shove or just call there."
Regardless of the time it took, Cheong is now sitting in a remarkably high position with 262,000 in chips.