Dwyte Pilgrim's room-filling laugh will no longer be with us today. We found him standing by the door and he told us he was already on his way to Rincon.
Pilgrim jammed his remaining 17,000 on the button holding pocket fours. The big blind called holding and caught his ace in the window.
A player opened to 3,000 in early position, and the action folded to Ari Engel who three-bet to 6,700 in the cutoff. The original raiser four-bet shoved for 20,900, and Engel called.
Opponent
Engel
Engel was well behind, but the board ran , giving him the wheel and eliminating his opponent. Engel now has 180,000 chips.
Joe "Black" Reddick had an opponent all in and at risk on a flop of . Reddick's two kings were ahead of his opponent's for an open ended straight draw, and the turn and river bricked , respectively.
Tables are breaking pretty fast this afternoon and players have been scattered all over. We just found Anthony Gregg, Christian Harder and Kurt Jewell are all seated together. While it may be too early to call it the "Table of Death" the trio does have over $5 million in career tournament earnings combined.
The action folded to Phong "VIP" Nguyen, who raised to 4,000 from the small blind. The player in the big blind moved all in - having Nguyen well covered - and Nguyen went into the tank.
"I hope we're flipping," Nguyen said, tossing the rest of his chips forward.
He wasn't.
Showdown
Nguyen
Opponent
The dealer burned one card then fanned .
"WOW!!!" Nguyen exclaimed.
The on the turn gave Nguyen the nut-flush, ending the hand, and a meaningless deuce fell on the river to complete the board. Nguyen was fortunate, and doubled to 68,000 chips.
A short-stacked player was all in preflop against Daniel Buzgon, and Buzgon's had his opponent's crushed. The board ran , and Buzgon recorded the knockout.
"How do you get it in there with ace-eight and have him drawing to three outs?" Jared Jaffee joked. "The day your book comes out, I'm going to be the first in line at Barnes & Nobles."
The table laughed.
"I haven't played in a while," Buzgon responded, grinning.