Barry Greenstein is back to 50,000 chips after his collected a nice pot against Matt Glantz's on a board which features two more kings. The kicker of Greenstein played as he took it down.
Glantz has been amongst the chip leaders for most of the day, but now slips back down to 29,000 chips.
Andrew "Dr. Bruce" Brussard has had a rough few minutes. We caught an interesting pot between Brussard and Bryan Horton. There was a bet on the flop before the turn and river were checked down with the board reading .
"King" said Horton as his kicker played with quads on board as Brussard sighed and mucked .
A few minutes later Brussard was forced to fold on the river in a huge pot with Matt Lichtie. The board read after a series of raises Brussard was finally convinced to fold his face up as Lichtie took it down with .
Lichtie is up to 95,000 with Brussard slipping, but still in good shape with 65,000.
Shaun Buchanan and Chris Tryba are seated at adjacent tables in the same row. Both are occupying seat five on their respective tables and have been extremely active the past few rotations. Buchanan and Tryba have built their stacks nicely. Tryba is up to 115,000 and Buchanan is rockin' a stack of 121,000.
Barry Greenstein is back in business after another double up, this time through Matt Glantz. Greenstein raised from under the gun and Glantz three-bet from the small blind. Greenstein flat called and they saw a flop of .
Glantz bet out and Greenstein again just flat called as the fell on the turn. Glantz fired again but Greenstein put in the raise. Glantz saw that Greenstein only had 1,200 behind, so he put him all in and Greenstein obliged.
Greenstein:
Glantz:
It was top set for Greenstein but he'd have to avoid plenty of outs with Glantz showing the flush draw.
The river bricked the and Greenstein doubles through to 27,000 to stay alive!
Daniel Alaei raised preflop and was called by David Olson. On a flop of , Olson check-called Alaei's bet. The turn brought the and Olson checked again. Alaei fired off another shell and this time Olson raised. Alaei would make the call.
The final card off was the and Olson led out. Alaei called. Olson showed the nut straight with and Alaei mucked.
Barry Greenstein was all in preflop with his tournament life on the line holding . His opponent held a dominated . The board ran out to give Greenstein the double up and put him back up over 14,000 chips.
"You wanted the book, didn't you?" chimed one of the players at the table to Barry's opponent in the hand. "There's some extra equity with the book on the line."
Eric Buchman and Franklin Kline Jr. have just clashed in a big pot with Buchman collecting the chips after a little running help.
Kline had flopped trips with his on a flop, however the on the turn, followed by the on the river changed things around. Buchman check-raised on the river, and Kline paid him off as Buchman tabled for a bigger full house. He's up to 68,000 with Kline continuing the slide back to 49,000.
Daniel Negreanu is another who is a little frustrated by the recent happenings in today's event. He took a hit when he check-raised on a flop, only to be raised himself when the landed on the turn. Both players checked the and Negreanu slammed his cards onto the table in disgust when his opponent revealed .