We're not sure what had happened before, but a big pot between Frazer and Corcione just went horribly wrong for Corcione.
On a | | board Frazer bet out just 24,000. The pot was pretty big by that point but Corcione took his time and even wanted to fold at some point. He couldn't do it though and ended up calling with his . Frazer turned over for a full house and started stacking.
Robert Corcione has far fewer chips than he had a little while ago. Ian Frazer is one of the chip leaders of the tournament with well over 340,000. "95 percent of the people would have gone broke on that turn" said Frazer to Corcione.
Action has slowed down here in the Amazon Purple as players do not want to bust short of big money. The clock says 69 players and hopefully the action will pick back up and we will get down to our final two table to say the least.
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Ari Engel raised it up to almost all of his chips from late position. He had just 3,000 behind but not everyone at the table could see that. Corey Harrison in the small blind announced his all in and Randy Haddox called all in. Harrison and Haddox tabled their hands but Engel still had chips behind, and in theory he could still fold. He choose not to though and we had a three way all in.
Corey Harrison
Ari Engel
Randy Haddox
The flop gave Engel some hope with . The on the turn made it even more interesting but the on the river was a total blank. Harrison had both players covered and so two players hit the rail in one hand. Engel finishes 78th for $5,271, while Haddox gets the same amount for his 77th place.
Matt Jarvis leaned back and told us the action, as we were right in time to write down the board but to late for the details on all the bets and raises.
The cutoff had opened to 7,000 according to Jarvis. Barry Greenstein, in the big blind, had made the call. on the flop and Barry had checked to his opponent. The cutoff made a 13,500 continuation-bet and Greenstein had raised it up to 32,000. The all in push followed and so did Greenstein with the call.
Greenstein showed a set of deuces with and was the big favorite against the cutoff's . The on the turn gave him some outs to a straight but he wouldn't hit. Instead he made top-two on the river with the which did him no good.
Greenstein had his opponent covered and thus we're down a player while Greenstein is up to 239,000.
Ari Engel opened to 6,000 from middle position and was called by the big blind. Both players checked on and the dealer put out the as the turn. Engel's opponent bet out 7,000 and Engel made the call. The river brought the and the big blind now bet 16,000. Engel had a tough decision but after a minute or two of thinking (and some talking with no response) he eventually folded.
Levon Khachatryan raised it up to 6,000 in late position. Jeffery Finkelstein Bumped it up to 16,000. Khachatryan re-bumped it to 46,000. Finkelstein then moved all in and Khachatryan called. They turned over their cards. Khachatryan turned up the and Finkelstein turned up the . The flop came . The turn came the . But the real card was on the end when Finkelstein hit his .
Finkelstein happy with the results stacks up 225,000 while Khachatryan is down to 225,000.