Derek Dempsey moved all in on the river of a board and Sunny Chattha called, but mucked when Dempsey turned over . Chattha down to 25,000, and Dempsey doubled up to 62,700.
A few hands later, though, Dempsey doubled up Jeff Sluzinski to 70,000 -- Sluzinski raised and then went over the top of Dempsey's reraise with . Dempsey's failed to hit on the board, and his subsequent comments to Sluzinski regarding what he thought of how he had played the hand resulted in Dempsey being issued with an eight-hand penalty. Yikes.
Dan Quinn has doubled through courtesy of Chris Bell. We didn't catch the hand, but can inform you that whilst Qunn leaps to 46,000, Bell simultaneously drops down to 69,000.
Sadly for our male onlookers here today (well, mainly me), stunning Liv Boeree has been eliminated from today's event. She moved all in with but ran into the of Matthew Hilger, which held up on an ensuing, and rather emphatic board.
According to our secret source (cough... Michael Greco), his table witnessed the most outrageous of misdeals, four players huffing and bemoaning the dealer's faux pas and showing, in no particular order...
After being knocked down to just 2,500, Rado Boltryk was unable to recover and soon fell at the hands of Rob Perry.
With the board reading , Rob Perry held for top pair, whilst Boltryk could only muster . Shane Schleger was also in the hand, but his cards went unseen.
Veronica Castellana has been bad-beaten out of the competition. She got all her chips in preflop with against Jan Von Halle's , only for the board to come down like so: .
Boasting more comebacks than Frank Sinatra, Clonie Gowen's dogged refusal to die has led to yet another double-up, this time seeing her stack shoot up to 23,000.
Raising it up to 4,500 preflop with , Gowen was put all in by the big blind who held . A board missed both players, but Gowen's jack kicker was just about good enough to take the pot.