Chris Moneymaker Eliminated
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. The action was checked to Moneymaker, who instantly pushed in for "five thousand something" and was quickly called. "I guess I did that too fast," lamented Moneymaker as he tabled his
. His opponent showed 
, having out-flopped him. The turn was the 
, the river was the 
and Moneymaker was eliminated, shaking hands with his opponents as he joined his #1 fan-- his father-- on the rail. With Moneymaker's elimination, only one of the Poker Stars WSOP Main Event winners' triumvirate remains in the hunt-- 2005 champ Joe Hachem.
. By the turn (
), only Thorson and Haller remained and all of the chips went in - Haller's on the strength of 
and Thorson's with 
. 
was the last card to fall off the deck, counterfeiting Thorson's two pair and subsequently eliminating him from the tournament. After the hand, Negreanu held his thumb and index finger very close together, saying, "That close..."
, his opponent winced in the sort of excrutiating pain that indicated he had a queen in his hand as he flung his cards into the muck. The hand sent Alioto's steadily growing stack past the 45,000 mark. 
on the turn, Goodwin checked, Hansen bet 800, Goodwin min-raised to 1,600 and Hansen called. The river was the innocuous 
. Goodwin fired out 2,200. 
for trips, but Hansen had turned the straight with the (evidently magic) 
and dragged the pot. 
. The player in the big blind led out for 1,300 and PokerStars.com player Boris Becker made the call from the button. The player in the small blind then check-raised over the top of both players to make it 3,000 to go. The big blind folded and Becker hesitated before making the call.
and the big blind asked Becker how many chips he had left. "Not many!" was the reply from the tennis star as he looked down at around 1,000 and change. The big blind bet enough to put him all in, and Becker shrugged his shoulders before tossing the last of his chips into the middle.
for nothing but an ace to go with the trips on the board. The big blind flipped 