We are seeing lots of players with dozens of stacks of yellow or orange chips before them. During the break, the tournament director announced an offer to color up chips for anyone with too many in front of them.
"It'll give you room to accumulate more," he added.
A short-stacked Charles Dolan decided he couldn't wait any longer. He picked his spot and got the last of his chips in before the flop holding . Joe Bishop looked him up and tabled .
Dolan went into the flop with a sizable advantage but that edge was quickly negated when the flop came . Bishop flopped Broadway and left Dolan drawing to runner-runner for the win or a to split the pot.
Neither came when the turn and river fell the and respectively. Dolan hit the rail and Bishop cruised to just under the 1,000,000 chip mark
After an early-position raise, James Mills reraised all in for 212,000. Karle Wilson, in late position, woke up with and made the easy call, folding the early-position raiser. Mills showed , and was drawing practically dead after the flop came down . The turn and river of sent him to the rail.
Under the gun Keith Ferrera raised to 29,000 and Lisa Parsons called. From the button Stephane Hornet moved in for his last 121,000 and Ferrera came over the top and moved all in himself. Parsons got out of the way, though she might've wished she'd called when she saw Ferrera held to Hornet's .
The board meant that neither Ferrera's nor Hornet's kickers played and so they took back their chips and divvied up the blinds, antes and the chips Parsons put into the pot.
Chad Layne pushed all in preflop from middle position with his last 117,000. Jason Su called from late position, and Davor Lanini called as well from the small blind.
The flop came single-suited -- . Lanini pushed his big stack all in, and Su got out of the way. Lanini showed for a pair of queens, and Layne turned over .
The turn was the and the river the , and Layne is out. Lanini currently has 1.65 million.
Andrew Teng, who entered the day with over 1,000,000 chips, just added to his stack. He called a preflop all-in raise from Tom Cope with . Teng was behind Cope's , but caught up in a hurry when the flop came down . There was no miracle king for Teng on the turn or the river . He has been eliminated.
Thomas "Thunder" Keller was all in for about 160,000 and found himself up against Alan Gould, who had him covered. Keller had , not such a good hand to have versus Gould's .
The flop came , giving Gould a set and making things even worse for Keller. However, the on the turn did give him a chance in the hand.
Then came the river card -- the -- followed by a roar from players and those watching the table. Keller's runner-runner Broadway straight keeps him in the tourney.
"That's officially the worst suckout I've ever done," said Keller, "I genuinely feel bad for him."