David Bradshaw Knocks Out Grigoriy Shvarts and Matt Millisor to Take the Chip Lead with 248K

Photo:  Chipleader David Bradshaw

There is a five-way hand developing at Table 56, with two players all in preflop — Grigoriy Shvarts in the cutoff, and Matt Millisor in the big blind.

The three other players check to the turn on a board of . T.K. Miles checks UTG+1, another player checks from middle position, and David Bradshaw bets 10,500 from middle position. Miles thinks for a while before he folds, and the other player calls.

The river card is the , the middle-position player checks, Bradshaw bets 16,000, and his opponent calls. Four players still have hands, but only two of them show their cards. Here they are in descending order of chip counts:

David Bradshaw:    (set of fours)
Middle-Position Player:  mucked
Matt Millisor:    (pair of queens)
Grigoriy Shvarts:  mucked

Bradshaw wins the entire pot to eliminate Millisor and Shvarts and catapult to nearly 250K in chips, taking the tournament chip lead with a little more than an hour left in Day 1B.

Photo:  Grigoriy Shvarts finished fifth earlier this month at WPT Maryland Live.