Justin "Boosted J" Smith boosted the action from under the gun with a raise. Action then folded around to Abe Mosseri in the small blind and he re-popped it. Smith made the call. The flop came down 
and Mosseri check-called a bet from Smith. After the turn brought the 
, Mosseri check-folded and was left with 12,000 chips. Smith moved back up to 53,000.
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Barry Greenstein was the aggressor on every street against David Steicke. his aggression was rewarded with a full double-up. Greenstein raised pre-flop, bet the flop, bet the turn and bet all in on the river. Steicke called pre-flop from the small blind, check-called the 
flop, check-called the 
turn and checked the 
river.
Facing Greenstein's last bet at the river, Steicke peeked at his cards, picked up chips, and said, "This is a gift." He tossed the chips into the pot, prompting Greenstein to turn over 
, two pair kings and eights. Greenstein collected a pot worth about 33,000 after Steicke mucked.
A short-stacked Brandon Adams raised pre-flop and was re-raised by Robert Mizrachi. Alex Kostritsyn called both raises before Adams closed the action with a call of his own. Adams and Mizrachi got into a raising war on a flop of 
that eventually ended with Adams all in. His second-nut flush draw, 
, was looking like a fairly large dog to Mizrachi's nut flush draw, 
. But the board came 
and 
to give Adams a running king-high straight and a scoop. He's up to 34,000. Mizrachi is down to 70,000.
From under the gun, Neil Friets called and then Matt Lefkowitz raised from the next seat. Phil Ivey called from the big blind and then Friets tossed in the call as well.
The flop came down 
between the three players and action checked to Lefkowitz. He bet and Ivey folded. Friets made the call.
The turn added the to the board and Friets checked. After Lefkowitz tossed out a bet, Friets put in a raise. Lofkowtiz tanked for some time and then made the call.
The river completed the board with the 
and Friets bet out. Lefkowitz folded after a little bit of a pause. He dropped back to about 78,000 in chips while Friets increased to roughly 90,000.
The eliminations seem to be coming in bursts now. Tony Cousineau, Mel Judah and Mike Matusow are all out. Matusow busted at the hand of Chino Rheem and has been walking around the tournament area telling everyone about it.
Its not often you see a three-way showdown, with a low on board, that one player scoops with only a high. But Phil Hellmuth's and Chad Brown's opponent got the whole pot in just such a scenario.
Four players limped into the pot before Brown raised from the big blind. All four players, including Allen Kessler and Hellmuth, called. Action checked to Hellmuth on a flop of 
. He bet and was raised by the player behind him. Everyone except Kessler called to the turn . Action checked to the flop raiser, who bet. Brown and Hellmuth both called.
The river put a low on board, 
. Brown and Hellmuth check-called one more time. Their opponent turned over four jacks with no low, 
. Surprisingly, neither Brown nor Hellmuth had a low. Their opponent got the whole pot.
Brown went out a few hands later. Hellmuth now has 34,000.
Browsing through the field, we've noticed that Derek Raymond, David Thomas, Jared Bleznick, Tony Ma, James Van Alstyne, Andrew Yeh and Daniel Smith have all made their exits.
Level: 11
Blinds: 1,300/2,500
Ante: 0
With lots of money on the line, it's no surprise that players get very angry if they feel wronged by a dealer error or a floor decision -- or, in some cases, both. Players on Red 368 were protesting a recent ruling to no avail. Sabyl Landrum and Tim Flanders checked the river and went to showdown. There was some confusion as to whether Landrum called a "nut flush" or a "small flush". Flanders apparently thought she said "nut flush" and dropped his hand, facedown, on the table, near the muck. Before the dealer could kill the hand, however, Flanders picked his hand back up and opened it, tabling a ten-high flush -- better than Landrum's small flush with 
.
Controversy then erupted about whether or not the hand could be considered tabled. The dealer told Flanders that he had folded and killed the hand. Flanders howled in protest, causing a floor to be summoned. That floor ruled that the hand -- even though it had been tabled face up -- was dead. The floor said that Flanders had surrendered his hand and it should be considered mucked. It didn't matter whether or not Landrum mis-called her hand; players always have a obligation to protect their hands.
Several players at the table, including Flanders and Nick Schulman, felt this was a patently wrong decision. The floor offered to summon another floor; Flanders insisted that that be done. But the first floor refused to hold up the action while the second one was summoned.
The discussion spilled over for a solid 15 minutes into the 20-minute break. with Flanders protesting his case to supervisor Charlie Ciresi and then eventually TD Jack Effel. The discussion raged as to whether the hand had been mucked, whether it had been tabled, and what the proper ruling should have been. Effel eventually concluded that, indeed, Flanders' cards were tabled and that he should have been entitled to the high half of the pot.
Everyone involved agreed that the total amount of the pot was 24,000 and that Landrum won the low half uncontested. The break was extended so that the tapes could be reviewed to verify all of the actions at issue. We expected that Flanders will be awarded half of the pot out of Landrum's stack.
However, after a few minutes, Effel came back to the table and ruled that Flanders' cards were close enough to the muck that they were considered mucked. One of the supervisors re-enacted what he said had been seen on the tapes. However, after all of the supervisors left, Nick Schulman remarked, "I saw the whole thing. It definitely didn't happen the way they just said it happened." Even the dealer was overheard to remark, during the discussion that occurred over break, "I should have pulled his cards in and I never did."
Flanders is, understandably, beside himself with outrage.
The players are on their first break of the day. We'll return in 20 minutes.
