The player under the gun limped, Jordan Farmar also limped, then Robert Varkonyi raised to 2,300. "Family's over," said one of the players on the other side of the table. "It was an accident," joked Varkonyi, feigning as if to bring back his raise.
It folded around to Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi who called from the big blind. The UTG player also called, and Farmar folded.
The flop came , and Mizrachi wasted no time firing out a bet of 3,000. The UTG player thought a long while, then folded. Then Varkonyi went into the tank. He had just 9,000 left, less than the 17,500 Mizrachi had behind.
After a couple of minutes, Varkonyi emerged and let it go. Mizrachi tossed his cards face up to the dealer -- -- and Varkonyi appeared to say "ace-king."
Mizrachi is up to about 26,000. Farmar is still up above the rim with close to 80,000.
After a player in middle position limped, John Alexander raised to 1,600 from the hijack seat. The big blind called and the limper called. The flop came down and action checked to Alexander. He fired 3,400 with only the big blind calling.
The turn brought the and Alexander fired 6,200 after it was checked to him. His opponent made the call.
The river was the and Alexander's opponent got tricky and checked again. Alexander fired all in for 19,500 and the player snapped him off with pocket sevens. Alexander made a flush with the , but was no good to his opponent's flopped full house and eliminated on the hand.
Al Riccobono just stopped by to let us know he's up to 55,000. According to him, a few players limped in, before one player moved all in for about 15,000. Riccobono moved all in over the top of the player for about 40,000 holding pocket aces. Everyone folded and Riccobono was heads up with the all-in player who held pocket queens.
Despite the flop coming down , Riccobono's aces held up to give him the pot and the elimination.
Lauren Kling raised the button to 1,100 and found two customers in the blinds. The flop landed and the action checked to Kling who made a continuation bet of 1,600. The small blind folded but the big blind put in a check-raise to 5,000. Kling decided to make the call.
The turn brought the and the big blind made it a hefty 11,000 to go. Kling went into the tank for several minutes, not that our reporter minded, but she eventually decided to fold and hang on to her remaining 21,500 chips.
Sami 'LarsLuzak' Kelopuro just lost a ton of his chips on one of the first hands back from the break. The flop contained three hearts and his opponent flopped the nut flush with . It's unknown what Kelopuro had, but he is now down to 15,000.
An announcement was just made letting the players know that the average chip stack is currently 39,700.
We don't have an update on the big board regarding the number of players remaining, but a little bit of math suggests that with that average we must have about 2,122 players left from the 2,809 who started Day 1d.