Championship Warm Up ($600)

Patrik Demus fired a three bet against an utg open and saw David Murphy push all-in from the small blind. Initial raiser opted out, leaving Demus to call off for his 86,500 stack.

Demus ahead, landed a slam dunk win through board K♦ Q♥ 2♠ K♥ 8♣ for the full double up.

Patrik Demus opened utg+1 and called a 22,000 button three bet from David Murphy.

On flop 6♠ 3♣ J♠ , Demus check called another 27,000, revealing turn K♠ . Both checked it through to river 7♠ , where Murphy sent out a final 29,000. Demus snap called with the second nuts Q♠ T♣ , only to run into Murphy's nutted A♠ A♥ .

Tom Maguire opened 6,000 on the small blind, called behind by Patrik Demus.

Action on board 8♥ 9♣ 4♣ 7♣ 2♦ was checked all the way down to the river, where Maguire led 11,000. Demus raised to 36,000, and called for his remaining 68,000 after Maguire came back with an all-in.

Maguire tabled a pair of eights K♠ 8♠ , crushed against Demus' queen high flush Q♣ 5♣ .

With 14,000 in the middle across board 7♦ 6♦ 8♥ K♥ , Xinping Liao sent out a hefty bet of 12,500, and saw Patrik Demus check call from the big blind. Both checked down river 4♥ , revealing Liao's 9♦ 9♠ , good against Demus' 9♥ 8♠ for the pot.