Santos hits a big double-up; Galin eliminated

Santos Ciulla was one card away from elimination before the poker gods extended him a helping hand, and he now leads the field here in Day 3.

With a stack of 1,250,000, he open-raised all-in from early position, and found a call from big-stack Alec Branstatter on the button.

Santos:
Alec:

Santos paired up on the river to collect the pot of over 2,500,000, as the board ran , leaving Alec with just under a million after the hand.

While this hand was happening, we lost Jeremy Galin, who fell to the hands of Rami Hammoud.