$350 Deep Stack No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 23:  10,000/20,000/3,000 Ante

Table 6 just had the good old four-way all-in situation. Mengchao Yu moved all in under the gun, a player in middle position called all in, the hijack moved all in over the top, and the button called all in.

Here were their cards, in descending order of chip counts:

Hijack:  
Button:  
Mengchao Yu (UTG):  
Middle Position:  

The player in the hijack was sitting pretty a pocket pair and so many aces dead, and he mainly just had to avoid face cards to win a huge pot.

But the board came , and Yu paired his queen on the flop to win the main pot, more than tripling his stack. The hijack had the button covered by about 20,000, which was a painfully small consolation side pot after losing a main pot worth 750,000. Two players busted on the hand.

Mengchao Yu  –  750,000  (38 bb)

While that four-way all-in was going on, the two chipleaders clashed at the next table. We’re thin on details at the moment, but Thomas Collazo bet 400,000 into an already-large pot, Pedro Palacio raised him to 1,000,000, and Collazo folded. That made Palacio the first player with at least 3 million in chips.

Pedro Palacio  –  3,260,000  (163 bb)
Thomas Collazo  –  1,390,000  (70 bb)

David Jackson was one of the final eliminations before the dinner break, after being among the chipleaders not that long ago. Jackson tells us that he lost a big pot with pocket kings, and then took a bad beat in a pot that had him scratching his head.

Jackson raised under the gun to 45,000 with Q-Q, and his opponent moved all in for about 400,000 with A-9. Jackson called, only to see his opponent crack his queens with a flush.

David Jackson  –  Eliminated

The dinner break just started, and we’ll compile an official leaderboard soon.