Some poor fortune for Kevin Eyster, as the EPT Tallinn Heads-Up champion found himself outdrawn.
With 50,000 in the pot by the flop, Eyster checked and Ram Vaswani checked behind. Eyster bet out 33,000 on the turn and Vaswani called; he bet out another 76,000 on the river and that got called too.
To showdown, and Eyster revealed pocket - but Vaswani turned over for trips, and took the pot.
After sneaking that early lead, Huck Seed has dropped back to 314,000.
We caught up with him betting 31,000 from the button to a check from Jim Collopy on the turn of a board. Collopy made the call, and the were at the river.
The river came down the and Collopy checked again. Seed bet 100,000 - but Collopy now check-raised all in for 217,000, and Seed - after tanking for a full five minutes - laid it down.
Kevin Eyster is not happy, after his turned two pair was counterfeited on the river.
Eyster was in the big blind and Ram Vaswani on the button when they both checked the river of the board. Eyster tabled , but Vaswani's pocket had snuck back into the lead on the river and he took the 160,000 pot, leaving Eyster with 225,000.
The flop read and there was a mere 27,000 in the pot when all hell broke loose at Gus Hansen and Neil Channing's table; the betting went as follows:
Channing - check
Hansen - 22,000
Channing - 56,000
Hansen - 147,000
Channing - all in
Hansen - snap-call
Channing's flush draw was up against Hansen's for bottom set, and following a bricky turn and river, it was a swift and probably mostly painless end for the British legend.
We'll be seeing Mr. Hansen tomorrow in the semi-final.
While the other half of the room were busy getting their chips in, Daniel Negreanu took a bit of a hit courtesy of Andrew Feldman.
Feldman made it 15,000 from the button and Negreanu called, but they proceeded to check down the board until the river, when Feldman bet 21,000. Negreanu claled, but mucked when Feldman turned over , and his stack comprised 285,000 chips at the end of it.
After that endless Round 4, they are dropping like very expensive flies in here.
Kevin Eyster opened for 16,000 on the button and was met with a reraise to 44,000 from Ram Vaswani. Eyster went all in for 221,000, Vaswani called, and it was off to the races for Eyster's tournament life.
We just witnessed some extraordinary tankage, as Andrew Feldman, who'd raised preflop in position and bet 26,000 on the flop before checking behind Daniel Negreanu on the river, disappeared into his own private pool of indecision for at least seven full minutes when Negreanu bet out 60,000 on the river.
Feldman talked at Negreanu for most of that time, most notably telling him, "You can call the clock if you like."
Negreanu remained silent until eventually he told Feldman, "Nothing personal," and did just that.
Finally Feldman called - and it was a good call, as it turned out that they were both playing the straight on the board.