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Stud
Dario Alioto led the betting on fourth and fifth streets before checking down sixth and seventh against Nick Schulman.
Alioto: (
) / 
Schulman: (X-X-X) / 
Schulman's board was connecting but he couldn't find a hand to beat Alioto's trip queens. Alioto is up to 140,000 with Schulman back down to 106,500.
Level: 15
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 0
The TD just announced that we're on a 20-minute break. "What'd he say? Break!" shouted Barbieri. "Great! I can go kill myself now."
It took until 10:15 for Sugar Bear to flip his lid. Not too bad. Al Barbieri is now screaming and yelling in something between a stand-up comedy routine and a temper tantrum.
"Bunch of fourth-graders playing poker over here!" he shouted. At full volume, Barbieri complained about the players at his table not knowing where the button was, playing the wrong game, grabbing cards out of the deck to rabbit hunt, and other behavior Al deemed inappropriate for the game's top pros. "What? They put you guys on tv?" Mike "Little Man" Sica egged him on from the rail, and Greg "FBT" Mueller threw in his two cents from 30 feet away.
Of course, while he was speechifying about professionalism, Sugar Bear had to be reminded the action was on him. Barbieri folded, freeing himself to stand up behind his seat to add a bit of theatricality to the performance.
The floor came over to calm Barbieri down and issued him a warning. "What? I'm disturbing other people?" He seemed genuinely surprised. Matt Glantz, who is sitting next to Al, said he didn't mind, but Sugar Bear's monologue could be heard clear across the Amazon room. Barbieri told the floor man that he'd needed the chance to rant and will behave now.
Hold'em
With a button raise, Robert Mizrachi and Greg Mueller defended with calls from the blinds to see a flop of 
. Mizrachi led out with a bet, but Mueller quickly raised to force the third player from the hand. Mizrachi made the call.
The turn was the and Mizrachi checked to Mueller who fired again with Mizrachi making the call.
The river was a repeat 
and again the action was check, bet call. Mueller opened for top two pair and Mizrachi mucked.
Mizrachi sits at 221,000 with Mueller up to 99,000.
We've lost players at a good clip all day and seen plenty of large pots. But the aggression is starting to drop off as we near the money. The field still needs to be cut in half, so we've got a long way to go, especially if everyone continues at this pace. Maybe it's just an after-dinner lull that they'll shake off on the next break.
Stud-8
Jason Lester was all in and covered by both Richard Ashby and Phil Galfond in a big Stud-8 hand. But Ashby showed down a wheel to take the low half of the pot, and Galfond's ten-high flush was good enough for the high half. That left Lester with none of the pot and no more chips.
Ashby and Galfond split Lester's stack to move Ashby up to 317,000 and Galfond to 125,000.
Razz
Bill Chen completed the betting before Brett Richey put in a raise. Chen made the call and then led out with a bet on fourth street. Richey made the call and again on fifth when he bricked, but he couldn't sustain the pressure and folded on sixth.
Chen: (X-X) / {
/ (X)
Richey: (X-X) / 
/ (X)
Richey is left with just 11,000 in change as Chen is up to 90,000 and looking for another H.O.R.S.E. cash.
Stud-8
Marco Traniello: (X-X) / 
/ (X)
Magnus Persson: (X-X) / 
/ (X)
Traniello bet every street, and Persson called him all the way down, only to be shown 
for a wheel. The nut low was also good enough for the high, as Persson mucked and Traniello scooped the whole pot. Marco's post-dinner rush has him up to 240,000. Persson is down to 65,000.
Omaha-8
Richard Ashby has just scooped a big pot in Omaha-8 to surge up the chip count leaderboard as we start to inch closer to the money stage of this tournament.
It was a five ways the to flop of 
, with four players putting in two bets each to see the 
turn. Al Barberi fired a bet with all three opponents calling to see the on the river. Again Barbieri fired a bet but Ashby was the lone caller.
Barbieri showed 
as Ashby collected with for the flush. Barbieri is at 172,000 with Ashby up to 265,000 and well on his way to a second bracelet this year!
