The many railers still circling the final table at this late hour all stood up at once as Jim Collopy, who'd opened to 72,000 from the button, four-bet shoved to a 163,000 reraise from Gus Hansen. But Hansen folded and all the railers sat back down.
Collopy's on around a million, and they're on another break.
No sooner had Jim Collopy bobbed above the million chip mark, than he sunk back below it.
He and Gus Hansen both checked the flop and Hansen checked the turn too. Collopy hazarded a bet of 45,000 - but Hansen promptly check-raised to 132,000 and Collopy gave it up.
Gus Hansen did his absolute favourite thing and limped in on the button. Jim Collopy made it 93,000 to go, and Hansen made the call.
Collopy bet out 78,000 on the flop and Hansen called that too. "Hansen's got a deuce," confidently stated a member of the media (who shall remain nameless) at the rail, but this was probably not the case as Collopy bet out another 173,000 on the turn and Hansen folded right there.
Collopy's long slow crawl back to his starting stack continues.
Jim Collopy made it 211,000 from the button - the seven-big-blind opening raise indicating that he would like to get his whole stack in. Gus Hansen duly put him in, Collopy called all in for a total of 571,000, and they were on their backs.
Collopy:
Hansen:
Board: ...
Collopy had only a few outs when Hansen picked up a flush draw on the turn, but Collopy's poor luck may be changing as one of them dropped on the river and he doubled up.
On a little over 1 million, though, he's still way behind Hansen's 2.8 million or so.
Jim Collopy has moved in three times in the last four hands - once from the button, and twice from the big blind to limps from Gus Hansen. This tournament could well be headed for Conclusionsville soon...
It has not been a good few hours for young Mr. Collopy, and he is now down to his lowest point yet.
Collopy opened for 63,000 in position and Gus Hansen called. The action went check-check on the flop, and check-check again on the turn. Hansen bet out 107,000 on the river and Collopy called, revealing for a rivered top pair - but Hansen's had turned two pair, and Collopy is down to 600,000 now.
These two seem to be spending an awful lot of time fighting over mere pocket change while the millions stay put in one stack or the other (mostly in Gus Hansen's stack, if we're being honest).
Just now a few pennies went Jim Collopy's way as he bet out on the turn but checked on the river of a board. Collopy revealed for the very worst pair but it beat Hansen and the tiny pot went into the Collopy stack.
Judging by how all the chips failed to make it into the middle in that last crazy cold-deck hand, we could yet be here for a while.
Most of the pots have been smallish preflop affairs so far this level with both players unwilling to commit to too much - even at a 3:1 chip disadvantge, Jim Collopy still has 40 blinds, and if you recall he came back from a huge disadvantage earlier today in his match against Ram Vaswani - but we did manage to see one that made it as far as the river.
Collopy check-called 36,000 from Hansen on the turn of the board, but it was check-fold time to Hansen's 91,000 bet on the river.