The delivery of Terrence Chan to Table 5 proved to be a boon for Julian Powell. Powell raised from under the gun. Action folded around to Chan in the big blind, who moved all in. Powell snap-called with . Chan also had a pair when he tabled . Neither player connected with a ten-high board.
Powell is up to 15,700 in chips. Chan has taken his place in the counts with just 7,600 remaining in his stack.
No sooner had the deck been changed at Table 5, then Julian Powell doubled up. He shipped 3,375 into the middle preflop with and was called by Andrew Pantling, who showed . Neither player connected with a ten-high board.
Controversy is swirling around Table 5, a table that includes David Chiu, Andrew Pantling, Charles Chua, Steven Silverman, Pakinai Lisawad, Julian Powell and Joe Hachem. For the fourth time today, the dealer has had to change the deck due to marked cards. One player at the table said he couldn't see the dints that had been made in the back of several cards.
"You can't see that big dint?" asked Joe Hachem. "Then come to my home game any time."
The dealer has been instructed by TD Danny McDonagh to check the cards as each player folds in turn for any sign of marking.
Johnny Chan is back to his starting stack after getting it all in preflop against a player that he just barely had covered. Chan showed and had to dodge his opponent's two live cards, . The flop provided a bit of excitement, coming to make a pair of aces for Chan but bring a flush draw to his opponent. The flush draw missed on the turn and river . Chan now has 20,000.
Harry "Taxi" Demetriou is out of the tournament. He moved all in preflop with and was called by Javed Abrahams, who had . After the board ran out , Demetriou said he was going to go take a nap.
Matt Kay completed from the small blind and JC Tran popped it up to 1,200 from the big blind. Kay then limp-raised to 4,000 and Tran made the call.
The flop came and Kay fired out 6,000. Tran made the call. The turn brought the and both players checked. The landed on the river and what appeared to be a big pot had slowed right down as both checked again.
Kay flipped for the straight to take it down and jump to 60,000. Tran is back to 43,000.
David Steicke has plenty of chips to burn as he attempts to eliminate players and build an even larger stack. He raised from early position and was called by a late position player and Quinn Do in the small blind. Do checked the flop to Steicke, who bet 1,250. The late position player called before Do check-raised all in for 4,250. Steicke was the only player to call.
Do:
Steicke:
Do had Steicke outkicked and managed to retain his lead on the hand with a turn card of and a river card of . He doubled up to about 16,000.
On a board of Van Marcus checked in the small blind over to the player in the big blind who fired out 1,200. Marcus made the call and the big blind tossed his cards into the muck.
Marcus was then going to muck his cards as the pot had been conceded to Marcus, but his opponent was adamant that Marcus should have to show his cards to win the pot. The floor was called and it was explained that since the player mucked his cards, Marcus didn't have to show his to win the pot. However after some discussion, Marcus was gracious enough to show anyway as he revealed for two pair.
We'll be taking our next break in forty-five minutes, approximately halfway through Level 5. After that break, we will play the rest of Level 5 and all of Level 6 and then halt play for the day.