Neil Channing progresses, beating McLean Karr after a hard-fought match in which both players seemed to be relaxed and playing confidently, but in which the stack advantage was usually (and not by much) on the Channing side. The final hand saw Karr limp on the button, big blind Channing make it 15k more, and Karr calling.
The flop of saw the rest of the chips go in, as Channing's bet of 23k was raised to 57,500 and it was a short shove-call process after that to get Karr all in for his tournament life drawing with against Channing's . The turn and river came blank to knock out Karr and progress the reluctant entrant into this event still further.
So it comes down to our last remaining Round 4 match-up - Huck Seed vs. Howard Lederer.
Right now the smart money is on Seed - he's leading on 335,000 to Lederer's 145,000.
These most recent hits came when Lederer checked the river of a board, 100,000 in the pot, before folding to a 100,500 from Seed. Next, Lederer opened for 26,000 on the button before folding to a push from Seed.
This has to be over fairly soon, though - Seed is down to just three grapes in the enormous fruit bag he brought down with him...
Huck Seed took five minutes to fold to a 130,000 push from Howard Lederer on the button. He kept looking back at his hand struggling to make his mind up. Eventually he let it go telling Lederer he folded king-eight suited. Lederer said he was dominated and pushed light of his normal shoving range. Seed said he should've probably called.
Seed min-raised from the button and Lederer called. There was no betting through the board until the river where Seed bet 40,000. Lederer folded and asked Seed "Why did you bet?"
"Because I hoped you would call" came the response.
Howard Lederer's poor all-in form continued as his final hand saw him call all in with when Huck Seed put him in on the button with . But pretty much the first card out on the flop was the at which Lederer looked fairly mortified. Seed clearly felt for his opponent, calling for the Queen which didn't come ( did instead). Shaking his head Lederer could only admit he was out of chips, while the rail muttered about the sickness of poker all round.
Perhaps Huck Seed could have done with a bit of a break - we just now witnessed a most curious hand.
Jim Collopy opened for 10,000 from the button and Seed called to see a flop. Seed checked, before flat-calling 13,000 from Collopy. Interesting.
They saw a turn and Seed checked again. This time he tank-called 33,000 from Collopy. Curiouser and curiouser.
The river was the and Seed checked again, before tank-calling a whopping 76,000. Collopy turned over for two pair - but was most surprised to find Seed turning over for the flopped flush.
Seed raked in the pot and has taken an early lead.
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saw the rest of the chips go in, as Channing's bet of 23k was raised to 57,500 and it was a short shove-call process after that to get Karr all in for his tournament life drawing with 
against Channing's 
. The turn and river came blank 
to knock out Karr and progress the reluctant entrant into this event still further.
board until the river where Seed bet 40,000. Lederer folded and asked Seed "Why did you bet?"
at which Lederer looked fairly mortified. Seed clearly felt for his opponent, calling for the Queen which didn't come (
did instead). Shaking his head Lederer could only admit he was out of chips, while the rail muttered about the sickness of poker all round.
flop. Seed checked, before flat-calling 13,000 from Collopy. Interesting.
turn and Seed checked again. This time he tank-called 33,000 from Collopy. Curiouser and curiouser.
and Seed checked again, before tank-calling a whopping 76,000. Collopy turned over 
for two pair - but was most surprised to find Seed turning over 
for the flopped flush.