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John Hennigan has been eliminated after losing a race against Nick Schulman. It was Hennigan holding 
up against the 
of Schulman who improved on the board to send Hennigan to the rail. Schulman is now up to 250,000.
Tom Marchese just doubled up with two black queens against the 
of his opponent. When we got to the table, the final board was laid out 
and the cards were on their backs. Marchese doubled to 50,000.
Andrew Feldman raised to 2,600 with Dario Minieri, Frank Kassela and Ivan Demidov all making the call.
They saw a flop of 
and action checked around. The turn was checked to Kassela on the button who fired 7,000. Demidov folded as both Feldman and Minieri made the call to see the 
complete the board on the river.
This time the action was checked through. Kassela opened 
for a well-disguised straight to take it down. Kassela is up to 240,000 chips.
Kevin Saul has found a double up in a battle of the blinds against Praz Bansi. Saul woke up with 
in the small blind and was thankful to get action from Banzi in the big blind who held 
as all the chips went in preflop.
The board ran out 
to give Saul the double up to 100,000 as Bansi slips to 35,000.
Jack Schanbacher and Dario Minieri have tangled again but this time the Italian stallion has come out on top with a double up.
Schanbacher raised to 3,100 from the cutoff before Minieri moved all in from the button for his last 23,900. Schanbacher made the call.
Schanbacher: 
Minieri: 
The board ran out 
and Minieri made a fortunate flush to stay alive. He's back up to 51,000 with Schanbacher down to 228,000.
Yes, that's not a typo, Danny Wong is out. Going into the dinner break, Wong had over 200,000 in chips. Less than a half an hour after the dinner break has been over, Wong is out the door, and it wasn't the least bit pretty.
We caught the action on the turn as Wong was moving all in for 160,000 or so. The board read 
at the time the money went in. His opponent, Philippe D'Auteuil, made the call and the few-hundred-thousand-chip pot was born. Wong held the 
, and was in commanding position against D'Auteuil's 
. With one card to come, D'Auteuil needed a miracle.
The dealer burned and smacked the on the river and in the blink of an eye, D'Auteuil hit his miracle one-outer!
"Holy sh*t, holy sh*t, holy sh*t!" were the words uttered out of tablemate John Duthie's mouth as everyone had their eyes wide open and jaws on the floor to what just happened. Wong was out the door with nothing but a blank expression on his face as D'Auteuil increased to 465,000 chips. Poker's a brutal, brutal game sometimes.
The under-the-gun player opened for 3,000 and Lisa Hamilton three-bet to 10,000 from the cutoff. She earned a call and they saw a 
flop. The action was checked to Hamilton who bet 15,000. The UTG player called. Both players checked the on the turn. The river was the 
and Hamilton called her opponent's 21,000 bet.
Hamilton's was no match for her opponent's and she slipped to 38,000 in chips.
Matt Glantz raised to 3,000 from early position and the table folded around to Praz Bansi who made it 8,800 to play from the big blind. Glantz decided a four-bet was in order as he made it 21,500 to go. Bansi wasn't done with just yet as he put in a five-bet to 35,000.
Incredibly Glantz re-raised once more, this time with a six-bet to 60,000.
Bansi put his head in his hands and sighed, "You're never folding regardless of what I do. I don't have to pretend anymore!"
Glantz had about half of his stack already in the middle as Bansi tanked the decision for several minutes before folding. A big hand with no flop sees Bansi slips back to 80,000 as Glantz is up to 180,000.
A few minutes ago Dario Minieri was sitting amongst our tournament chip leaders. Now he's on the short stack. Such is the nature of the way Minieri attacks the game.
Minieri was just caught with his hand in the cookie jar against Jack Schanbacher who made a massive call for his tournament life. The board read 
and with around 40,000 in the pot, Minieri had moved all in to put Schanbacher to the ultimate decision. It was a big overbet as Schanbacher still had around 115,000 chips behind, and he gave the decision plenty of thought before committing to a call.
"Good call," sighed Minieri as he revealed for bare overcards as Schanbacher was in front with 
.
The river was the and Schanbacher lands a massive double up to get himself up to 270,000 chips as Minieri is down to just 25,000.
Except this time, it's what Freddy Deeb thinks and it's being played over on Antonio Esfandiari's table. Joining Esfandiari in on the action are Steve Sung and Gavin Smith. When we wandered over there, the question Smith proposed was "What does Freddy Deeb think John Duthie's lifetime poker earnings are?" Duthie was seated at the adjacent table.
Esfandiari thought the questions was boring and requested a change to "How many pushups does Freddy Deeb think John Duthie can do?" They all agreed from there and Deeb locked in his number.
Smith started the bidding off at five and a couple more bids later, Esfandiari was at 22. Both Smith and Sung bought and took the under. Deeb announced that his number was a whopping five!
"What!" said Esfandiari. "Well John, he only thinks you can do five pushups."
"The guy smokes! He's a smoker!" laughed Deeb as Esfandiari passed a $100 bill to each Sung and Smith.
As we walked away from the table to come and write this up, the following question proposed was, "How many women does Freddy Deeb think the has the whole table has slept with combined, not including working girls?"
