Ylon Schwartz is almost at the 200,000 mark. First getting Daniel Negreanu to pay off a 31,000 bet on a board. Negreanu even called Schwartz' hand on the river before making the call.
Then Schwartz eliminated Alex Bolton with against all in preflop to put him close to the 200,000 mark and in sight of the chip lead.
With the board reading . Barry Greenstein fired 25,000 and Matt Woodward made the call. The river was the and Woodward checked again with Greenstein betting 30,000 this time. Woodward couldn't make the call this time and decided to instead preserve the rest of his 113,000 stack.
Kyle Zartman raised to 5,700 and Matt Matros and Mimi Tran both called from the blinds.
The flop was , the blinds chekced and Zartman bet 9,400, Matros raised to 30,000 but then Mimi Tran reraised all in for 75,100. Zartman and Matros both folded and Tran showed the .
Just before the no-limit finished, Gavin Griffin doubled to 115,000 with on a board against Joey Coden's . The turn was the and the river was the but Griffin had the superior three pair (but only two of them counted).
Griffin has 115,000. Coden down to 26,000.
Marc Naalden though has been knocked out by Howard Kahan. He ran into his opponent's with the board coming .
While a flop of didn't look like a real action flop, the stacks went flying in between Samuel Ngai and Kyle Zartman holding and respectively. The turn was the and Zartman was reduced to just the to hit, but the river was the and he was eliminated.
Wow, people are falling fast here. Latest to go is Daniel Negreanu who was all in preflop with against Barry Greenstein's . The board came the way of the veteran running out .
Randy Haddox (such a great name that just makes me think of sex-obsessed fish) and Eric Froehlich call Casey McCarrel's mid-position raise from the cutoff and the big blind respectively. The flop is and it's checked to Haddox who bets 4,000, Froehlich raises and McCarrel folds. Haddox calls and Froehlich checks the turn to him. Haddox bets 8,000 and Froehlich calls with the same pattern repeating itself on the river.
Haddox flips for the nuts and Froehlich mucks, he's down to 27,000.