We played the first two levels of this tournament inside the Pavillion Room, but as soon as these players return from their break, they will be bagging up their chips to move down the hall to the Amazon Room.
We're not sure why, but hey, we're gonna go with it.
As a result, the Level 3 restart should be about 5-10 minutes from now. Sit tight.
With the final board reading , Chad Brown called a bet of 25,000 from Sandor Demjan. Brown was shown the for trip threes by Demjan and dropped all the way down to 10,075. Demjan moved up to 120,000.
On the flop of , Thomas Bichon and McLean Karr got all the money with Karr holding two tens and Bichon pocket fours. Karr was out-flopped by Bichon, who now held a full house with two more cards to come.
The turn brought the and nailed Karr with a two outer to snatch back the lead. The river completed the board with the and that was it for Bichon, who had the least amount of chips. Karr boomed his way up to 160,000.
Mike Degilio opened for 1,025 from under the gun, Alex Roumeliotis called on the button and Chris Moorman three-bet to 4,100 from the small blind. Tom Dwan tanked for a bit in the big blind before making the call, and both Degilio and Roumeliotis called as well.
The flop was . Moorman led out for 8,500 and Dwan raised to 19,825. Degilio folded and Roumeliotis moved all-in for about 90,000.
Dwan let out a sigh and tanked for nearly five minutes before deciding to make the call for his remaining 56,000.
Dwan
Roumeliotis
For Dwan, this was one of those "right call, wrong result" situations. Although the on the turn was a safe card for him, the spiked on the river to make Roumeliotis trip eights.
Dwan is out, Moorman is down to 43,000 and Roumeliotis is up to 215,000.
With a little over 30,000 chips in the middle, Daniel Negreanu moved all in on a board of . Negreanu's shove was much more than the pot size, but his opponent, Saar Wilf, only had about 35,000 chips left.
Wilf tanked for a minute and finally folded his stack, giving Negreanu the pot. Negreanu increased his stack to about 131,000 in chips with this pot.
In one of the more bizarre prop bets we've seen, John Juanda has made a bet with Roland De Wolfe that he cannot hold his arm outstretched parallel to the table until the break without it falling to the felt.
Juanda offered even money and de Wolfe took the bet for $100. De Wolfe has about thirty minutes to survive but he's looking shaky and is reportedly already trying to buy out for $50!
Joe Cada and Dani Stern clashed on a flop of with Stern's last chips going into the middle.
Stern:
Cada:
It was Stern's top two pair up against Cada's flush and gutshot straight draw in a make or break pot for both players. The turn was the and river also bricked the to leave Stern's two pair in front for the double up. He's up to 90,000 as the 2009 World Champ is crippled with just 6,000 chips.