Orpaz Holds to Eliminate Svedin
Picking up the action on the flop of 
, Robert Svedin moved all in with a short stack and was called by Tom Orpaz.
Robert Svedin: 
Tom Orpaz: 
Orpaz was ahead with two pair while Svedin had plenty of hope with an open-ended straight draw. The runout of 
improved Svedin to a no-good two pair and he hit the rail as Orpaz raked in the pot.
A few hands earlier, Orpaz took a small hit in a three-bet pot when he flat-called a bet of 11,000 on a flop of 
and Richard Essex raised to around 50,000.
Essex, sitting in the nine-seat, had accidentally pushed one of his cards toward the muck as he put out his raise and Orpaz, before folding, questioned what had happened as Essex pulled his card back.
"Am I the only one who saw that?" he asked.
The dealer and other players agreed that Essex's hand was still live and that the raise would stand as it hadn't touched the muck. Orpaz and a third player in the hand both folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
75,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
|
Busted |