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Brock Parker was one of three players who went to a raised 
flop. Parker got his last chips in, and both players called. The turn brought the 
, and there was a bet and a call to start a side pot. It went check, check after the 
river blanked any low draws, and one player tabled 
for kings and deuces. The other player in the hand mucked, and Brock Parker showed his 
on his way out.
Level: 18
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 0
The following players have been eliminated and will earn $5,124:
37th - Robert Lipkin
38th - Ty Takishita
39th - Allen Kessler
40th - Larry Etherington
41st - Sam Mudaro
42nd - Craig Natte
43rd - Dean Jackson
44th - Daniel Quach
45th - Daniel Baldey
These players have also been eliminated and will receive $4,296 in prize money:
46th - Dennis Seagle
47th - Tom McCormick
48th - Jordan Siegel
49th - James Collopy
50th - Paul Fisher
51st - Charles Thompson
52nd - Todd Brunson
53rd - Matthew Waxman
54th - Alan Engel
Brad Lipson raised under the gun, and Clint Steelman and Mike Puskarich called. After the 
flop, Lipson bet out, and the CO called. Then Puskarich raised, and both other players called. The 
turned, and Lipson bet again. Steelman and Puskarich both called all in, risking their tournament lives to see the 
on the river.
Showdown
Puskarich: 
- good for half of the low half
Steelman: 
- good for half of the low half
Lipson: 
- good for the entire high half
After being quartered, Steelman and Puskarich were both dangerously short. Steelman is already out.
Chau Giang is up to 170,000 after knocking out yet another opponent. Giang was in the small blind when his short-stacked opponent raised the button. Giang three-bet, driving the big blind out of the pot and getting the button heads-up.
Giang bet a 
flop, then bet again on the 
turn after the button called. The button, who had only 9,000 left, tossed his chips into the pot, saying, "I don't know if I have any outs." It turns out he did have outs. He was behind but live with 
against Giang's 
. The river came to give Giang the nut low and two pair, nines and sevens. That was good for both halves of the pot.
Allen Kessler was all in preflop and all out post-river. He told us that he had A A J 4 against his opponent's A K 4 3. The board ran out Q 7 6 T 5, and the other player hit a convenient river to scoop the pot with a 7-high straight and an a-3 low. Chainsaw hit the rail in 39th place after locking up his first cash of the Series.
Apparently the structure sheet for this event called for the purple (T500) chips to be colored up at the last break. However, that wasn't done. Someone noticed that the called-for color-up didn't happen, and as a result the clock was paused to do the color-up. Most players were unhappy with this decision, because it means now that any odd-chip pots are going to result in an odd orange (T1,000) chip going to the high hand instead of an odd purple chip.
Allen Kessler, ever critical of structures, noted that the odd blinds of 3,000 and 5,000 are contributing to the problem. He felt that the proper blinds for this limit should be 2,500 and 5,000.
In any event, the color-up has been completed and play has now resumed.
They've stopped the clock for a moment to argue over, and then at some point, actually color up the T500 chips. More info to come.
Ylon Schwartz is the only November Niner remaining in this field. His stack is up to about 95,000 -- a respectable amount at this stage of the tournament -- after defending his big blind against a button raise. Schwartz check-called a flop, then led the turn. Both players checked the 
river, where Schwartz collected the whole pot with 
.
Jeff Madsen is still seated to Tom Schneider's left, as he has been for several hours. Madsen's stack is back up to 130,000 after a recent heads-up pot. Madsen bet and then three-bet a flop of 
. His sole opponent called the three-bet, then called another bet on the turn. Both players checked the 
river.
"Just one pair of fours," said Madsen's opponent. He showed 
. Madsen tabled 
for a pair of queens to collect the pot and increase his count to 130,000.
