Brendan Taylor came back as our short stack but has managed to double-up through John O'Brien. A series of raises and reraises preflop saw Taylor all in with . He had O'Brien's dominated and the two-outer failed to appear.
Vinny Vinh is virtually crippled after getting caught on a bluff by Jimmy Schultz. It was three bets to go and three players were involved: Vinny Vinh, Jimmy Schultz and Steve Shkolnik
The flop came and Vinh fired out of the small blind. He was called by Schultz and Shkolnik laid his hand down.
The turn flipped the and again Vinh didn't hesitate, firing a bet of 20,000. After some thought Schultz called.
The final card was the and Vinh quickly fired another 20,000 into the pot. Schultz looked him down and made the call.
Vinh turned over and Schultz smiled as he turned to take down the pot worth 190,000 and further his chip lead on the field.
We lost another player after John O'Brien ran into Brendan Taylor's pocket aces.
The board was and with most of his chips in the pot O'Brien went all in and was called by Taylor. When Taylor turned his O'Brien knew his needed running kings to snap the aces, but was not able to get there. The turn and river were blanks and O'Brien left us in 13th place.
Steve Shkolnik raises it to 20,000 from early position and only finds a caller from chip leader, Jimmy Shultz, in the big blind. The flop comes...
Shultz leads out for 10,000 and Shkolnik calls so we head to the turn...
Shultz bets 20,000 this time and Shkolinik calls once more before the river...
Shultz bets a final 20,000 and Shkolnik calls once more but mucks when he sees Shultz's .
The very next hand Shkolnik had most of his stack committed in the big blind so had no choice but to move the rest in. His was no match for Eric Lingren's . He leaves us in 12th place.
Vinny Vinh raises to 20,000 from mid-position and Jimmy Shultz makes the call from the big blind before the flop comes down...
Shultz is first to act and leads out for 10,000 that Vinh calls before the turn comes...
Shultz leads out once more and once more Vinh calls before the river comes...
. The four clubs on board cause both players to check it down and a very unlucky Vinh loses with to Shultz's !!
This seems to have tilited Vinh as he's become very animated with plenty of trash talk. Will he completely capitulate and lose his remaining 100,000 chips?
Erick Lindgren put up the 10,000 for the big blind and had only 7,000 remaining so when Markus Golser raised his call was instant. Lindgren turned and Golser .
The flop cam giving Lindgren a gut shot straight draw.
The turn yielded the improving the gut shot draw to an open ended draw.
However, the river failed to devliver when the fell and Lindgren was sent home one spot shy of the final table.
We lost Erick Lindgren just as the level came to an end. Players are now on a fifteen minute break before the final table of nine will play to a winner.