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Monday, January 15, 2018 4:43 PM Local Time
The players are on a 15-minute break.
Here are the chip counts as the final four players head to their break:
Jason Strasser - 9,700,000 (97 bb)
Viet Vo - 5,300,000 (53 bb)
Krzysztof Stybaniewicz - 4,950,000 (49 bb)
Trung Pham - 3,100,000 (31 bb)
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:42 PM Local Time
Viet Vo opens to 175,000 and Jason Strasser raises from the button to 550,000. Vo folds.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:42 PM Local Time
Trung Pham opens to 185,000 and everyone folds.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:42 PM Local Time
Krzysztof Stybaniewicz opens to 175,000 and Trung Pham calls in position. Viet Vo three-bets from the small blind, making it 550,000. Both his opponents fold.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:42 PM Local Time
Viet Vo gets a walk.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:42 PM Local Time
Krzysztof Stybaniewicz completes the small blind and Trung Pham makes it 200,000 from the big blind. Stybaniewicz calls.
The flop comes , Stybaniewicz checks, and Pham bets 200,000 winning himself the pot.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:41 PM Local Time
The table folds and Krzysztof Stybaniewicz gets a walk in the big blind.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:40 PM Local Time
Viet Vo bets 190,000 from the small blind and Jason Strasser calls from the big blind.
The flop comes , Vo bets 150,000 and Strasser folds.
Vo shows for a flopped straight.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:39 PM Local Time
Jason Strasser opens to 220,000 from under the gun and everyone folds.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:38 PM Local Time
Viet Vo opens to 175,000 from under the gun and Trung Pham calls from the big blind. The flop comes , Pham checks and Vo bets 160,000. Pham calls.
The turn brings the , Pham checks again, and Vo bets 325,000 winning himself the pot.
Viet Vo - 3,775,000 (47 bb)
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:35 PM Local Time
Jason Strasser makes it 220,000 from the small blind and Krzysztof Stybaniewicz calls from the small blind.
The flop comes Strasser bets 300,000 and takes it down.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:33 PM Local Time
Gil George eliminated in 5th place
Gil George moves all in from under the gun for 675,000 and Jason Strasser calls from the big blind. George turns up and needs to get lucky against Strasser's .
The board comes and Strasser makes a full house to eliminate George in 5th place.
Jason Strasser - 10,000,000 (125 bb)
Gil George - Eliminated
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:28 PM Local Time
Krzysztof Steinbaniewicz opens to 175,000 from the button and Viet Vo calls from the big blind.
They check down the board and Stybaniewicz turns up to win the pot.
Krzysztof Steinbaniewicz - 5,700,000 (71 bb)
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:25 PM Local Time
The table folds as Trung Pham gets a walk in the big blind.
Trung Pham - 4,950,000 (62 bb)
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:23 PM Local Time
The table folds as Krzysztof Steinbaniewicz gets a walk in the big blind.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:22 PM Local Time
Viet Vo opens to 175,000 from the button, George Gil says "here we go!" as he looks at his hand in the big blind, he sees and says "ahh for Pete's sake" and folds face up.
Vo says "I had a real hand that time" as he scoops the pot.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:21 PM Local Time
Trung Pham raises to 225,000 on the button and Jason Strasser defends his big blind. The action is checked all the way down as the board runs out .
Strasser shows and Pham double checks his hand and the board before sending it into the muck.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:18 PM Local Time
Trung Pham completes the small blind and Viet Vo raises to 280,000 out of the big blind. Pham calls and the hand is checked down as the board runs out .
Pham says he is playing the board and Vo wins the pot with . After the hand, Pham claimed he had nine-ten suited.
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:17 PM Local Time
Jason Strasser raises to 175,000 from the cutoff and Trung Pham defends his big blind. The flop is and Pham checks. Strasser bets 250,000 and Pham calls.
The turn is the and Pham checks again. Strasser bets 425,000 and Pham calls. The river is the and Pham checks. Strasser bets 700,000 and Pham thinks for a few moments before calling. Strasser shows and Pham mucks his hand.
"You're running hot," says Pham.
"Real hot," says Strasser.
Strasser takes the pot and opens up a huge chip lead over the rest of the table.
Jason Strasser - 9,450,000 (118 bb)
Trung Pham - 4,250,000 (53 bb)
Monday, January 15, 2018 4:15 PM Local Time
Jason Strasser opens to 175,000 and everyone folds.