On a board, Ben Lamb had 9,000 chips sitting in front of him as a bet or raise. Seidel, his remaining opponent, raised to 21,000 before Lamb raised again to 34,000. Seidel moved all in which prompted a fold from our 2011 November Niner.
Seidel is back up to 130,000 while Lamb is still on the first page of our leaderboard with 248,000.
Erik Seidel just sent David Steicke to the rail. Steicke's couldn't improve against Seidel's after all of the money went in preflop. The final board was .
When we arrived at the table, the flop was between Justin Bonomo and Phil Laak. Bonomo checked the flop and Laak bet 4,200. Bonomo made the call and the turn brought the . Bonomo checked again and this time Laak fired 14,000. Bonomo check-raised to put Laak all in and Laak snap-called for his last 25,000 or so.
Laak:
Bonomo:
The river completed the board with the and gave Bonomo a full house. Laak was eliminated while Bonomo climbed to over 200,000 in chips.
After the hand and after Laak had exited the tournament area, his buddy Antonio Esfandiari came over and asked, "Did Phil bust?" The table confirmed that he did and Esfandiari gave a cheerful, "Yes!" Someone at the table asked Esfandiari if he had bets against Laak. Esfandiari responded, "No, but I like to see him suffer," with a smile.
Jeremiah DeGreef was all in preflop for his last 23,000 or so with the . He was called by Hasan Habib holding the . The flop, turn and river ran out to send DeGreef to the rail.
Brandon Cantu got the rest of his 31,000 chips in the middle with in the middle against the of Dan O'Brien. The board ran out and Cantu is back up to 65,000 just like that. O'Brien falls to 170,000.