Last hand before the break, John Kabbaj managed to double through (probably) hair cream enthusiast Michael Fosco. We're not sure when the chips went in, but the flop had a queen on it so we're guessing that's when.
Fosco: and now down to 220,000
Kabbaj: and now up to 220,000
On the very last hand before the break, the Devilfish doubled up to... wait for it... 49,000!. Previously crippled, Devilfish was looking to put his chips in with anything half decent, but somehow managed to find . Yevgeniy Timoshenko looked him up with . "Put an ace out there, don't mess around," said the man from Hull, but a board and a cheeky wink later and the Fish's tournament life remained intact.
Liz Lieu picked up a tidy little pot courtesy of chip leader Antoine Saout just now. Blind on blind, we caught the hand on the river of the board -- Saout checked and Lieu bet 20,000. Saout called -- but then mucked when Lieu turned over for a rivered two pair.
Lieu - 240,000, probably -- she likes her uneven stacks
Saout - still chip leader on 555,000
A fairly sizable pot had developed, although woefully we only caught up with it on the river.
The board read and Arnaud Mattern checked. Steven Fung on the button tanked and gurned while various cameras circled to get his gurning visage from the best possible angle. He checked too, and Mattern turned over for two pair. Fung nodded and mucked.
Fung - down to 490,000
Mattern, who by the by is missing his own party at the Dorchester to play this (we understand he dropped by in the dinner break) - up to 317,000
Amnon Filippi is the latest close-but-no-cigar casualty. He was all in on a flop with versus the of Antoine Saout. If 15 outs wasn't enough to see him sweat buckets, the would have caused floods, and, indeed, one of those many outs arrived on the river, and Filippi was gone.
Former chip monster fallen on hard times Ian Munns raised under the gun and Barry Shulman called behind. In the big blind, newly doubled up Jason Mercier reraised. Munns gave it up but Shulman called, and they saw a flop.
Flop:
Mercier checked and Shulman bet 30,000. Call.
Turn:
Mercier checked again, and this time Shulman moved all-in-really-really-fast, for 230,000. "I don't know why I called the flop," said Mercier with spectacular and admirable honesty. He folded, and is down to 240,000.