Lichtenberger Storms Back
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and 140,000 chips already in the pot. Lichtenberger checked to Holt, who fired out 110,000. Soulier folded; Lichtenberger called.The river was the
. Again Lichtenberger checked. Holt counted down 200,000 chips and put them into the pot. Lichtenberger tanked for about a minute, then moved all in for 424,000. Holt unhappily tried to puzzle things out."We can only have the same hand," he finally decided. "I call."
Turns out that unless they were playing with a funny deck, there was no way Holt could have the same hand as Lichtenberger. Lichtenberger turned over
for the nuts, quad sevens. Holt later claimed he had top two pair.That pot was worth 1.2 million chips, restoring Lichtenberger to close to the chip lead. Holt is down to about 170,000.
. John Franciosi in the small blind bet out 40,000. Shak raised to 110k. Kyle Zartman wasn't happy about it, but he folded. Action back on him, Franciosi moved all in. "I have to call," said Dan without a pause. Showdown time.
on the turn and 
on the river changed nothing, and Franciosi doubled through Shak. "Nice play, Dan," muttered Shak, who is now down to around 140,000.
and Binger continuation bet 28,000. Cossette called.
and both Binger and Cossette checking their option.
and Binger checked. Cossette fired 59,000 and Binger folded, dropping to about 390,000 chips.
. Chop it up!
and was all in for a little under 300,000.
and Talbot was sent to the rail at the hand of Billirakis. Billirakis increased his stack to over one million with this pot.
, Clemente bet 150,000. Buffington didn't look happy but tossed in calling chips anyway.
for fours full of nines. Buffington mucked.
. He's out, and Chen is up to about 410,000.