We're on a 20-minute break between levels to color up and remove the black T100 chips. They've introduced a few traffic-cone orange T5,000 chips in the past two levels, and will be replacing the smaller denominations with more throughout the night.
It's only been an hour since the last 20-minute break. Today might win for the most breaks per minute of poker in a World Series event so far. They have played six and half hours and spent two hours and ten minutes on break.
Jaymes Rosenthal is now our runaway chip leader after taking down another massive pot in a preflop confrontation. In fact, he has such a big lead he could probably take the rest of the evening off and still come back tomorrow with the lead.
With all the chips in preflop, Rosenthal tabled but was in deep trouble against his opponent's .
That is, until the board was cruelly spread . The turn gave Rosenthal a Broadway straight, as he sings and dances all the way to a massive 580,000 chips - more than double the amount of the second largest stack in the room according to our current counts.
Eric Froehlich has been quietly flying under the radar for most of today but we've just nabbed him in a pot. Unfortunately for EFro fans, it isn't good news as he doubled up an opponent.
Froehlich raised under the gun before Adam Sherman moved all in for 22,100. Froehlich made the call.
Sherman:
Froehlich:
Froehlich was going to need some help, and picked up a sweat when the first four community cards landed to give Froehlich a Royal Flush draw, but the river bricked the . Sherman doubles to 51,000 with Froehlich down to the same amount.
Tony "Bond18" Dunst was all in with , and an opponent with called to put him at risk of elimination. The board brought a sweat, but ultimately, the couldn't keep Mr. Dunst's chip count from reading 00 - no 7.
With an open from the cutoff to 7,200, Josh Norris decided to move all in for his entire 79,500-chip stack. The table folded back to the cutoff who snap-called.
Norris:
Cutoff:
Oops! Norris had run into the rockets but it didn't matter when the board was presented to give Norris a set of jacks. Norris is up to 165,000 with his opponent trudging off to the cashier.
In early position, the table's biggest stack opened with a raise, and Alexis Belanger-Lebel flatted. Another player, who had been waiting patiently for a spot for several hours, moved all in. Not intimidated by the guy's sudden aggression, the original raiser then over-shoved with his large stack. Belanger-Lebel quickly called all in for 60,100, just covering the squeezer.
Big stack:
Belanger-Lebel:
Squeezer:
The board ran out , and Belanger-Lebel scored a major win. The French-Canadian tripled to 180,000, moving into the top ten in one fell swoop.
The last Team PokerStars Pro in our field, Argentinian Veronica Dabul, has just been sent to the rail. Her final stand came when she shoved all in with over the opening raise of Joseph Grenon who made the call with .
No help for Dabul and Team PokerStars is done with Event #24.
The small blind checked a board, and Jeff Tebben bet 15,000. His opponent called, then checked again after the fell on the river. Tebben checked behind, rolling over for a turned pair. His opponent said he had a ten-high flush draw as he mucked. Tebben has climbed to 145,000.