Jimmy Tran was just eliminated by Andrew Lichtenberger after the money went in on a flop of . Lichtenberger held a flopped straight with the against Tran's for top pair and a flush draw.
The turn was the and the river the , bringing no help for Tran and sending him to the rail. Lichtenberger is up to 45,000 chips.
Down to 5,650 chips, Justin Bonomo put them all on the line with the board showing . A Jeremiah Smith look-alike, seated to Bonomo's right, started chanting, "Nananana", prompting Scott Seiver to acknowledge "Ty Webb", Chevy Chase's eccentric character from the movie Caddyshack.
Meanwhile, Bonomo's opponent tanked for about a minute. He finally called with . It was no good against Bonomo's . Bonomo dodged his opponent's sole out (the last king in the deck) when the river fell . He's back up to about 13,000 chips.
Cards are back in the air, and late registration is over. We don't have an official count yet from the tournament staff but the big board says that 148 players are registered. That's bad news for those of you who had "over 160".
There's a raging debate going on in the back of the tournament room. It started at Scott Seiver's table, with Seiver and Justin Bonomo debating which of the 10,000 (pictured on the left) or 1,000 (right) chips was actually the "orange" chip. They couldn't come to a conclusion and decided to make a bet out of it, with Bonomo picking the impartial table that they would ask.
We don't know which side of the bet each player had. We do know that they chose Steve O'Dwyer and Darryl Fish's table, and that Bonomo won the bet.
The topic provided lively table chatter for four or five of the tables in the back of the room for a solid ten minutes.
With the board of sitting in the middle, one player checked to Tony Dunst. Dunst fired 3,000 and then his opponent check-raised to 7,600. It looked painful to do so, but Dunst tossed his cards into the muck and gave up the pot.
A player limped under the gun, former PokerNews employee Anthony Yeh limped the cutoff and then the button raised to 850. The player under the gun called as did Yeh.
The flop came down and action checked around. The turn was the and action checked around again. THe river completed the board with the and the first player fired 2,000. Yeh raised to 5,600 and then the button folded. The first player made the call.
Yeh tabled the goods holding the and his opponent mucked. Yeh's up to 37,000 chips.