Erik Seidel moved all in on a flop of and found a caller in Adam Hourani.
Seidel
Hourani
Seidel was ahead with two pair against Hourani's top pair top kicker. The turn was the , but the river was the making Hourani a higher two pair and Seidel was bounced from the tournament in 27th place.
With blinds of 2,000/4,000, an opening preflop raise can range from 8,000 to 14,000.
The average chip stack among the 27 remaining players is above 225,000. The short stacks should be feeling some urgency, but most of the field have plenty of chips with which to play.
We're now down to 27 and the players have redrawn for seats on three tables. Here's the new lineup, complete with chip counts updated as of the dinner break:
Table 31:
Seat 1: Adam Hourani 410,000
Seat 2: Steve "MrSmokey1" Billirakis 175,000
Seat 3: Erik Seidel 95,000
Seat 4: Sigi Stockinger 91,000
Seat 5: Emmanuel Sebag 560,000
Seat 6: Eli Elezra 185,000
Seat 7: Daniel Negreanu 320,000
Seat 8: Alexander Kostritsyn 165,000
Seat 9: John Juanda 268,000
Table 32:
Seat 1: Jani Vilmunen 325,000
Seat 2: Kirill Gerasimov 350,000
Seat 3: Brian Rast 412,000
Seat 4: David Williams 280,000
Seat 5: Phil Hellmuth 295,000
Seat 6: Rafi Amit 38,000
Seat 7: Evan Sofer 247,000
Seat 8: Ralph Perry 170,000
Seat 9: Johnny Chan 273,500
Table 33:
Seat 1: Erick Lindgren 170,000
Seat 2: Nikolay Evdakov 93,000
Seat 3: Phil Galfond 228,500
Seat 4: Jamie Pickering 109,000
Seat 5: Cole South 80,000
Seat 6: Ted Lawson 165,000
Seat 7: Birinder Nijran 125,500
Seat 8: David Benyamine 147,500
Seat 9: Chris Ferguson 366,500
Ross Boatman got the last of his chips in on a flop vs. Birinder Nijran.
Boatman
Nijran
Boatman had flopped top two pair, but Nijran made a set of deuces. The turn was the , the river was the and Boatman hit the rail just as the tournament broke for dinner.
Alexander Kostritsyn recently doubled through Rafi Amit. Then Amit tripled through Jani Vilmunen and Erik Seidel.
When the dust settled, Vilmunen was still sitting pretty with 430,000, Kostritsyn had moved back around 132,000, Seidel had 92,000, and Amit was down to 42,000.
David Benyamine raised to 10,500 preflop, Tony G moved all in for 24,000 and Benyamine called.
Tony G
Benyamine
The flop was , Tony G's aces holding for the moment, but Benyamine picked up a flush draw. The turn filled it when the came down and the river was the . Benyamine raked in the pot while an unhappy Tony G hit the rail.