Adam Geyer raised to 5,500 before the flop as the first player in from late position. Sabel Cohen called from the big blind. The flop came and Cohen pushed her last 4,000 into the pot. Geyer quickly called showing for top pair top kicker, a slight favorite over Cohen's . Geyer's hand held up and Cohen is out of the tournament in 35th place for $6,441.
John Theisen was just eliminated from the tournament by Blair Hinkle after getting it all in pre-flop holding A-6 against Hinkle's K-Q. The board ran out 4-4-J-Q-5 and Hinkle's two pair, queens and fours, were good enough to take down the pot. Theisen picked up $6,441 for his efforts.
Professional poker player Peter 'Nordberg' Feldman has just been eliminated from the tournament by fellow pro Ralph Perry. Feldman opened the pot with a standard pre-flop raise holding pocket kings and Perry made the call holding Q-10. The flop came Q-10-6 and all of the money went into the middle. Perry's top two pair held up when the turn and river blanked out, sending Feldman to the rail with $6,441 in prize money.
With eight players at the table Allen Cunningham opened for a raise to 6,000 in late position. Than Nguyen called on the button, and Jason Riesenberg called from the big blind. All three players checked the flop of and the turn brought the . Riesenberg checked and Cunningham bet 8,000. Nguyen thought for a moment and called the bet, and Riesenberg folded. The river was the , putting four to a straight and three to a flush on the board. Cunningham thought for a moment, then decided to make another bet of 8,000. Nguyen, who appeared frustrated, finally called the bet with and lost the pot to Cunningham's . With this pot Cunningham is now up to 80,000 in chips and players are on a 15-minute break.
Bobby Law and Scott Zakheim were both eliminated from the tournament just before the break in 31st and 32nd place, respectively. Each player will take home $6,441 in prize money.
With eight players at the table, Than Nguyen opened the pot with a raise to 8,000 from late position. Adam Geyer, who had Nguyen covered, called from his left in the cutoff. The remaining players folded and the flop came . Nguyen acted first by betting 11,500. Geyer thought for almost a minute then quietly said, "All in." Nguyen immediately called and turned over his pocket fours showing bottom set. Geyer turned over and was drawing to runner-runner.
The turn and river were the and , missing Geyer, and the dealer counted out Nguyen's remaining chips to match Geyer's stack. The new chip count shows Than Nguyen at 157,000 and Adam Geyer at 89,000.
Now that we're down to the final four tables, the Bluff Media team has begun filming a feature table on the final table stage set to be broadcast on a one-hour tape delay at www.worldseriesofpoker.com; here's the line-up:
Seat 1: Tommy Vedes
Seat 2: Lee Rubin
Seat 3: Doug McKinnon
Seat 4: Danny Wong
Seat 5: Tony Cousineau
Seat 6: Steve Wong
Seat 7: Jimmy Tran