The roller-coaster day of Sam Jessop has continued, as he just found a much needed double-up. After recently bleeding chips, Jessop committed his final 5,000 chips on a flop, holding for top pair, and found a caller in the small blind who tabled for middle pair.
The turn was the and river the as Jessop's hand held up to rebound to 13,000 chips.
After a raise and a reraise, all the chips were flying into the middle in a hand between Mark Deutsch and Jay "Seabeast" Kinkade.
Deutsch tabled a powerful as Kinkade would need some help with his . He couldn't find it on a board as Deutsch claimed another big scalp with the elimination of Jay Kinkade.
Mike Ivin was extremely eager to get his chips in on the river of a board against John Cordue. Ivin bet 2,500, then called all in after Cordue raised all in himself. Ivin tabled two pair, but was well behind Cordue's flush, . Ivin left the tournament area a bit stunned, while Cordue stacked 53,000 chips.
On a different table, David Saab was all in against Jim Sachinidis in Saab's third flip of the day. He tabled against Sachinidis' and won the flip by flopping quads, . Saab didn't have many chips prior to the hand, doubling up to a total of 7,600. Sachinidis is in danger of elimination himself, dropping to 5,700.
Kristine Milinkovic has been battling with a short stack for most of the day, and just found another useful double-up to keep her head above water.
She did it the hard way, getting her chips into the middle needing a lot of help, holding against her opponent's . However a king on the flop was what Milinkovic was looking for, as the board of gave her the double-up to 10,000 chips.
Kevin Wagler has just eliminated a short-stacked Jarred Graham. Wagler opened with a raise, before Graham committing a few chips more with Wagler making a pot-committed call.
Wagler:
Graham:
The board fell to end the day for Graham as Wagler, in his first-ever live tournament, is now heading to dinner with 62,000 chips.
The players are back after enjoying their dinner and the cards are once again in the air. We have 73 players remaining and another 30 minutes to play in this level.
Jim Sachinidis was down to his last 4,200 in chips which he committed to the middle holding . He was called by Michael Wong in the big blind who tabled .
The coinflip went the way of Wong as it fell giving him a pair of jacks and the pot to send Sach to the rail.
Shane Dye raised to 1,500 preflop from the cutoff before being raised to 3,000 from the button. Dye made the call and the two took a flop of . Dye checked and then called the 2,500 bet from his opponent.
The turn and river were checked down however the button player tabled a powerful to take it down on a dangerous looking board.
...because neither one is going to be able to enjoy the rest of this tournament. Leonard got all of his chips into the middle after rivering the nut flush with on a . The only problem for Leonard was that his lone opponent had turned quads with .
Lin moved all in preflop with for 6,600 from the small blind and was quickly called by the big blind, who showed . Neither player improved on a board of . Lin therefore reported to the rail.