We didn't catch any of the action but the board was and the pot was over 50,000 in chips as Brandon Demes checked the action over to his opponent, Australian Andrew Scott.
Scott sat in thought and considered firing a bet but decided to check behind.
"Ace-jack?" said a hopeful Demes as he revealed .
After another pause, Scott said, "It's good," and mucked his hand to the oohhs and aahhs of the table as Demes added the huge pot to his stack with just ace-high.
Scott threw his head back in disappointment as he falls to 70,000, while Demes keeps pace with the chips leaders with 175,000 chips.
A sombre looking Steicke
David Steicke open-pushed from under the gun for his last 30,600 and was called by Tu Le from the cutoff.
Steicke:
Le:
With the flop dropping it put Le squarely in the lead, but when the fell on the turn many Steicke-lovers would expect Steicke to find one of his eight outs on the river.
Unfortunately for Steicke the would land on the river to see the bright and exuberant Hong Kong-based Steicke make a quick exit to the rail.
Someone bring Tony Hachem a white hat.
It's getting hard to keep up with the action. An all in and a call brought us scurrying to Tony Hachem's table, where his were trying to eliminate a short stack, who tabled .
"I've got your tens," Hachem told Young Phan. "They've gotta hold up."
The dealer produced the perfect drama flop, . Hachem made a set of tens but had to fade his opponent's flush draw.
"What a flop!" said Phan with a laugh.
The turn and river were both small clubs, and , giving Hachem the pot and the elimination.
"One for the good guys," said Hachem as he stacked up 53,000 chips.
Catching the action on a flop of , Jonathan 'xMONSTERxDONGx' Karamalikis made the call of the 6,500-chip bet to see the fall on the turn.
The interesting board was enough to prompt Karamalikis to lead at the pot with a similar sized bet of 6,500. His opponent made the call and the was the river.
Karamalikis tossed out 10,500 which looked tempting but his opponent released and the "Dong" collects a nice pot to move up to around 80,000 chips.
Ok, Shout Box. You wanted an update on Shawn Ryan and you're going to get it. Ryan found himself all in preflop for a significant number of chips (we weren't able to get a count but seemed to be at least 30,000) holding . His opponent had two overcards, . Ryan lost the flip on a king-high board, . He's out of the tournament.
David Chiu
"It's all skills!" laughed David Chiu as he raked in a nice pot after catching the old "runner-runner" to break the dreams of his opponent.
Chiu was in the big blind and sensed a steal from the button, but his opponent tabled for the superior hand against Chiu's .
It got worse for Chiu on the flop but Chiu doesn't have four WSOP bracelets for nothing. The turn and river handed Chiu the pot for his flush and ended the tournament for his unlucky opponent.
Isaac Galazan before elimination
With a min-raise to 2,400 and a call ahead of him, Peter Nguyen bumped the action to 12,000 from the button before Isaac Galazan pushed all in for 13,600 total.
Both the original raiser and caller passed and the cards were tabled.
Nguyen:
Galazan:
The board ran out to see Galazan hit the rail as Nguyen climbed to over 70,000 in chips.
A three-way pot contested among Raymond Wu, Wally Sombero and a third player had some confusing action on the flop. Wu had first action with the board reading and checked. The big blind bet 5,000, a single yellow chip. Action moved to Sombero. He paused, then slammed 3,300 into the middle.
It was unclear whether Sombero hadn't seen the initial bet and thought it might be part of the pot. The dealer corrected his error, instructing Sombero to put 5,000 chips in the pot. He did so, and Wu folded.
On the turn the big blind jammed for 20,900. It was a bet with a meaning and accomplished its purpose -- Sombero folded.
Amnon Filippi in action
Amnon Filippi opened with a raise to 2,700 from the cutoff before being three-bet to 8,000 by Rytis Praninskas from the small blind.
Filippi made the call before checking behind the flop to see the land on the turn and a bet of 6,200 follow from Praninskas.
Filippi made the call and when the landed on the river checked behind once again while rolling over his to take the pot down and move to 66,000 in chips.
and both players checked. The turn was the 
and Phan checked to Wu who fired 3,600. Phan made the call and the 
hit the river.
for two pair to collect the pot.
and the pot was over 50,000 in chips as Brandon Demes checked the action over to his opponent, Australian Andrew Scott.
.
it put Le squarely in the lead, but when the 
would land on the river to see the bright and exuberant Hong Kong-based Steicke make a quick exit to the rail.
. Hachem made a set of tens but had to fade his opponent's flush draw.
, giving Hachem the pot and the elimination.
, Jonathan 'xMONSTERxDONGx' Karamalikis made the call of the 6,500-chip bet to see the 
was the river.
. His opponent had two overcards, 
. He's out of the tournament.
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flop but Chiu doesn't have four WSOP bracelets for nothing. The 
turn and 
river handed Chiu the pot for his flush and ended the tournament for his unlucky opponent.
to see Galazan hit the rail as Nguyen climbed to over 70,000 in chips.
to take the pot down and move to 66,000 in chips.
