Gavin Smith is doing pretty well at this stage, and just took down a pot which swelled threeway until sixth street and then fizzled out on the river (much to his scooping delight).
The three hands which made it pretty far were:
Jan Sjavik: [XX]
Gavin Smith: [XX]
Dutch Boyd: [XX]
Sjavik had been betting up until fifth street, when he was raised by Smith. Both players made the call, but when Smith bet sixth, Sjavik folded and left it to the two of them. They received their final cards; Boyd checked to Smith, who bet yet again. Boyd thought for a long time, looked at his opponent's hand and then finally laid his own down.
Carol Kline - 10k
Jon 'Pearljammer' Turner - 16k
Michael Mizrachi - 18k
Bryan Devonshire - 8.5k
CK Hua - 17.5k
Pat Pezzin - 9k
Andy Bloch - 3k
Thang Lu - 16k
Raymond Davis - 16k
Lee Childs - 4.5k
Carlos Mortensen - 21k
Jason Mercier - 15k
Shawn Sheikhan - 20k
Phil Ivey - 9k
Chip Jett - 23k
David Singer - 4k
Annie Duke - 5k
Allie Prescott - 29k
Steve Wong - 23k
Sonny Osman - 3k
Previously not mentioned but deserving of at least one today:
Jan Sjavik - 15k
Jeff Duvall - 17k
Alexander Kostritsyn - OUT
Toto Leonidas is up to 16k after winning an early level 7 pot. Threeway until the turn - the board - the small blind checked, big blind Leonidas bet, and button Nikolay Evdakov only called. Now heads up, the river brought another check from Leonidas, and another bet from Evdakov. Leonidas just called, despite having no low and a third heart having just hit, but his was good against Evdakov's at-it .
After one player per table briefly gets the pleasure of owning all the green chips on there, he gets them raced off. Everyone now on a break for 20 minutes.
As they prepare to wave goodbye to the 25 denom green chips, short stack Allen Kessler makes his bid for bustout or glory with a promising [XX] which he bet at the much bigger-stacked Dario Minieri. Minieri (with 13k or so) paused for a minute and smiled, saying, "I have the crap of the crap!" but called the <1000 anyway. They decided to flip their cards over and see what happened...
Kessler: .. .. ..
Minieri: .. ..
Kessler back to 4k but still hovering around the danger zone, while I reckon "The crap of the crap" is some kind of Italian opposite to "Creme de la Creme." I like it.
Raymond Davis refused to be check-raised off a board of on the turn by Sabel Cohen. He stuck with it and saw the which saw a marked slowdown in action. In fact, both players checked which left Davis to scoop the pot showing . He's hovering around 8k which is, at least, above his starting stack.
I caught this Stud hand from fifth street when it looked like Andreas Krause was teetering on the brink of an all-in. He bet 800 showing [XX] leaving himself just 550 behind. His potential caller (showing [XX] ) sighed, looked at the chips and the pot and made the call. He got a but Krause picked up the which finished off his flush (he held the monstrous down). Scoop for Krause.
A tablemate saw the sigh of his doubler-upper and said, "Low chips trapped you in the hand."
"Of course! Like four thousand in the pot, he only had 1300 bucks..."
Now he has 6,000, though, and that won't be an issue for a while...
After 20 minutes of level Six, an odd announcement just informed them of a small tweak to the advertised blind level. Instead of the Stud ante being 100, bring in 150, the bring in is also 100. This makes no difference to your average stack, but there was a little bit of muted grumbling from the shorties.