Thayer Rasmussen was involved in a big pot with Jason Lester a few moments ago. Lester showed a pair of kings on board, (X) (X) (X), and Rasmussen showed (X) (X) (X).
Lester checked on his final card and Thayer fired out a bet. Lester called and Thayer slapped down for the wheel. It was good enough to take both the high and the low.
Thayer Rasmussen completes, and David Benyamine makes it two bets with the showing. Rasmussen calls with the .
Benyamine: (X) (X) (X)
Rasmussen: (X) (X) (X)
On fourth street, Rasmussen led out, and Benyamine made the call. On fifth, Thayer again bet, and this time had to call a raise from his opponent. On sixth street, Thayer paired his five and bet yet again. When Benyamine took his last card on seventh street, he took the lead as well, betting out and getting a call from Rasmussen.
Benyamine: ( ) ()
His two pair was good enough to scoop him the pot, and bring him up to 90,000. Rasmussen, meanwhile, came up on the wrong end and is down to 23,000.
Dan Shak: () () (X)
Hasan Habib: () () (X)
Tad Jurgens: () () (X)
Shak completed on his bring-in option, Habib called, and then Jurgens raised. Both Habib and Shak called. On fourth, Jurgens bet, Shak raised, Habib called, Jurgens reraised, Shak called all in, and Habib made the call.
On fifth, Habib bet, Jurgens raised, and then Habib said, "I can't throw this away," and put Jurgens all in. Jurgens tossed his last 900 in the middle.
The dealer ran the cards and gave Shak the , making him the wheel and nut low. Habib pulled a third six on his last card. Jurgens flipped up his last card and couldn't find a third king to best Habib's trip sixes and was eliminated.
Shak scooped the main pot with both a high and the low. Habib scooped the side pot.
Mike Matusow completed the bring-in showing the , and Dario Alioto made the call with his . Alioto bet his fourth-street , and Matusow called with the . On fifth street, Alioto drew the and he checked to Matusow. Mike bet his , and Dario check-raised all in for his remaining chips.
Matusow was unimpressed. "Didn't have to check-raise," he said.
Alioto responded, "I wanted to be the last one betting."
When the cards were all drawn and the hands turned over, the pot was split. Matusow tabled ( ) to lock up the high half with his sevens up. Alioto took the low with ( ) .
Steve Sung and Robert Mizrachi have just become our first two players to crest the 100,000-chip mark. Sung sits with 110,000 and Mizrachi is on 102,000.
Michael McKenna has just made trip eights to scoop in a hand against Alex Jacob and Sirous Baghchehsaraie. McKenna was all in with his last 2,700, but that win chipped him back up to right around 11,000.
Shortly after that hand, however, McKenna was knocked back down and out of here.
Daniel Negreanu has just been ousted from our field. Kid Poker held (X), and he got it all in on fifth street. His opponent, Noah Jefferson, was working with (X). On seventh street, Jefferson called his card as he squeezed it out: "Nine of diamonds." Sure enough, the hit him, making his flush. Negreanu didn't like his last card, and he shoved his holdings into the muck as he headed for the exit.
Alex Jacob: (X) (X) (X)
Michael McKenna: (X) (X) (X)
Doug Ganger: (X) (X) (X)
Jacob completed on third and then both he and Ganger called when McKenna raised all in. Jacob and Ganger checked the hand down on the remaining streets.
Jacob mucked at the showdown when Ganger revealed an seven-four low with . McKenna took the high with .
McKenna is now up to 2,700, but still extremely short.