Clonie Gowen's chip stack goes up as Michael Mizrachi's chip stack goes down. Mizrachi bet 10,000 on a flop of , which was called by Gowen, who then bet 25,000 on the turn. It was Mizrachi's turn to call.
On the river , Gowen shoved or 55,600, inducing a fold from Mizrachi. After the pot was pushed to her, Gowen claimed, "I had aces." Whether or not that's true, she now has 145,000 chips and Mizrachi now has 265,000.
Ross Boatman tried the old limp-reraise routine, after Clonie Gowen limped in behind him and Nick Gibson raised to 16,500. Boatman reraised all in to 39,500, folding Gowen, but Gibson would not be so easily deterred.
Gibson:
Boatman:
Neither player improved on a board of , with the result that Gibson's aces were the best hand. He dragged the pot and eliminated Boatman.
From under the gun, Rob Hollink raised to 8,000 and got four callers, including Kido Pham on his left.
The flop came out . Hollink bet 9,000, and Pham raised it up to 20,000. The other two opponents folded, and Hollink made the call.
Fourth street was the . Hollink bet the amount Pham had left in front of him, 35,500, and Kido obliged by pushing all his chips in on the call.
Hollink:
Pham:
The river came the , and Pham took down a big pot with his full house, more than doubling up to 158,000. Hollink, meanwhile, has taken a step back to 91,000.
Danny Dang will not be seen in the Brasilia Room for the rest of the evening. On an X flop, Dang got all of his chips in the middle with naked kings, unimproved. Gary Benson, who had Dang covered, almost beat him into the pot and flipped over a hand that contained the other two crazy eights. No running kings for Dang (surprise) -- he's out.
Alberto Romero opened from middle position with a raise to 10,500. Dario Alioto and Thayer Rasmussen put in matching chips and came along to the three-way flop.
It rolls out . Romero bet out 36,000 and Alioto raised to 144,000. With a little gamble in their eyes, both Rasmussen and Romero made the call, both all in and at risk of elimination. With the betting complete, the hands were turned up:
Romero:
Alioto:
Rasmussen:
The turn brought a nice hit for Alioto when the popped off, giving him triple nines with an ace kicker. The river missed everyone, and Alioto dragged in a huge pot, knocking off two players and moving way up the board to 450,000 -- squarely in second place.
See me, feel me. Touch me, heal me. Tommy Grimes may be asking people that for the rest of the night. He moved all in on a flop of and was called by Guillaume Patry. Grimes tabled unimproved aces, ; Patry showed for trip fours. The turn and river bricked out to eliminate Grimes.
"You play tricky," mused Johnny "Effin'" Chan aloud. "You play low, everybody else plays high."
Dan Shak and Kenneth Mattson got in a raising war on a flop of and eventually Mattson was all in, with Shak just barely having him covered. Shak showed unimproved aces with no draw; Mattson held . (I guess he's one of those "tricky players" Johnny Chan was recently pontificating about.)
The board came running tens to make a full house for Mattson. He jumps up to 157,000, while Dan "I trade stocks online while playing the WSOP" Shak is on life support with just 14,000.