Eddie Sabat has just lost a preflop race which has dented his once impressive chip stack.
Sabat held pocket tens for the advantage over his opponent's however the on the flop was enough to ship the pot to his opponent. Sabat is down to 17,000.
Jan Van Dyk was broken to Hevad Khan's table and wasted no time in joining the action. On his very first hand at the table, he called a raise to 800 that had already been called by one other player. Action passed to Hevad Khan in the small blind, who promptly moved his whole stack into the middle, 5,525 in total. The initial raiser and first caller wanted nothing to do with that big a bet, but Van Dyk had chips to burn and made the call with . He was up against Khan's and couldn't deliver the bad beat when the board came to make two pair, aces and eights, for Khan. He doubled to about 12,000, while Van Dyk simultaneously dropped to 45,000.
Terry Gardiner has just won a race to find a nice double up. Gardiner had his tournament life on the line with as his opponent made the call with .
The flop came and although Gardiner spiked a set, his opponent still had outs with a straight draw. The turn was the and river the and Gardiner clapped his hands in delight as he doubled up to around 13,000.
Wooka Kim has had good control over her table today, steadily chipping up at the expense of her opponent. She took another leap forward by knocking out a short-stacked opponent. All of the chips were in preflop, with Kim tabling against her opponent's pocket jacks. The flop was .
"No ace, no king, no jack, no diamond!" the all-in player pleaded. He was rewarded with the on the turn. He repeated his chant, but the river was "the prettiest card in the deck", the . That made a pair of aces for Kim and sent her opponent to the rail.
We caught the action on a board of where David Saab had checked to Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier who fired out a bet of 1,750. Saab then check-raised to 4,000 and "ElkY" made the call.
The river was the and Saab fired out 6,000. "ElkY" deliberated and made the call. Saab tapped the table to acknowledge that he was beat as "ElkY" tabled merely for bottom pair to collect the pot!
"ElkY" now becomes our tournament chip leader as Saab slips down to around 10,000 chips.
Ivan Tan made a continuation bet of 1,500 on a flop of . His lone opponent check-raised him to 4,100. Tan tanked for about a minute, asking to see how much his opponent had behind, before folding.
"I can't beat a set of sixes," said Tan.
"But when you do play," responded Hevad Khan, "you'll have a bigger set."
Khan was referencing an earlier discussion the two had, in which Tan remarked he had already flopped two sets today: the bigger set in a set-over-set situation, and a set against Khan himself. At the time, Khan had joked that Tan only plays if he has a set.
2008 APPT Macau High Rollers runner-up Andrew Scott was recently spotted exiting the tournament floor leaving nothing but his chair and empty felt behind.