One rather interesting table sees Clonie Gowen seated next to UK online player Chris Moorman. Moorman still has his 5,000 starting stack while Gowen is down to 2,900, but Gowen has position...
Norwegian dynamo Stephan Kjaerstad has been removed from today's proceedings. He sang his swan song with but came unstuck against and an ensuing board.
I think our reporter might just hover over this particular table as Gus has joined Dario Minieri at table 11, and you know that these guys like to play a lot of hands.
In this hand Gus made it 625 from under the gun and Dario made he call on the button.
Flop:
Gus bet 700 and Dario moved in, forcing Gus to call for his last 4,100.
Dario tabled for top pair while Gus held the for a flopped set.
Jeff Williams has dropped down to 9,000 from his earlier peak of 24,000. He reraised an early position raiser from the small blind and then bet out 700 on the flop. His opponent raised to 1,700 and Williams called. Williams checked the turn, and when the original raiser bet 3,000, Williams raised to 10,000. The original raiser called all in, and flipped over for the turned nut. Williams mucked even before the river was dealt.
Scott Seiver, Vanessa Rousso and Gavin Smith are all OUT, the latter running his J-9 into the pocket rockets of Fred Goldberg at some point (presumably the flop) on a board.