David Baker was down under 7,000 chips after that run-in with James Obst just before the break. One hand after the break, Baker has lost the rest to become the fifth casualty of the day.
Baker was all in preflop with the 
and up against the 
for Masa Kagawa. The flop came down 
to gibe Baker the lead, but after the 
fell on the turn, the 
gave Kagawa a straight and sent Baker out the door.
Level: 5
Blinds: 1,200/2,400
Ante: 300
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
649,000
149,000
|
149,000 |
|
||
|
468,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
449,000
274,000
|
274,000 |
|
||
|
413,000
44,000
|
44,000 |
|
409,000
156,000
|
156,000 |
|
||
|
408,000
88,000
|
88,000 |
|
||
|
381,000
7,000
|
7,000 |
|
||
|
375,000
15,000
|
15,000 |
|
|
||
|
355,000
222,000
|
222,000 |
|
322,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
||
|
295,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
|
||
|
287,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
281,000
9,000
|
9,000 |
|
||
|
279,000
31,000
|
31,000 |
|
|
||
|
261,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
259,000
41,000
|
41,000 |
|
||
|
|
254,000
61,000
|
61,000 |
|
252,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
||
|
251,000
41,000
|
41,000 |
|
|
||
|
244,000
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
233,000
63,000
|
63,000 |
|
|
||
|
233,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
225,000
50,000
|
50,000 |
|
217,000
78,000
|
78,000 |
|
|
||
|
215,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
The players are on their second 15-minute break of the day.
Andrew Robl raised to 6,000 from middle position and was three-bet by James Obst to 16,800 in the cutoff. David "Bakes" Baker was on the button and cold four-bet to 38,200. Action folded back to Robl and he also mucked, heading off to his break. Obst took a minute and then moved all in. Baker snapped him off with the 
. Obst showed the 
.
THe flop came down 
to give Obst a heart draw and give him some more hope. The turn card brought the 
and completed the flush for Obst, leaving Baker drawing dead. The river completed the board with the 
.
After the final count of the chips, Obst was all in for 218,600 and Baker was left with just 6,500.
On the flop of 
, about 27,000 chips were already in the middle with five players in action. Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier fired 11,100. Hoyt Corkins folded, as did Jonathan Duhamel before Andrew Lichtenberger made the call. Tom Marchese also folded.
The turn card was the 
and both players checked. The river then completed the board with the 
. Both players checked again.
Grospellier flashed the 
, but lost to Lichtenberger's 
. He slipped back to 218,000 while Lichtenberger climbed to 310,000.
Scott Seiver raised to 4,500 from middle position, and the table folded around to the big blind. There, Phil Laak leaned over the table to have a look at Seiver's dwindling stack. "I'm going to charge you an additional 7,200 after I call," he declared, sticking in a three-bet to 11,700. "When I say I'm going to charge you, that's only if you call. If you fold, there's no charge."
Seiver did not fold, instead matching the bet to see a flop with about 45,000 chips left. It came 
, and the action went check-check to the turn. Laak took the lead now with a small bet of 9,000, and Seiver tanked and called. That led them to the river, and Laak was peeking once again. "Could you move your right arm for me?" he asked, spying Seiver's ~35,000 remaining chips. Satisfied by what he saw, Laak grabbed 200,000 in green chips and slung them forward. Seiver was taken aback.
"If I end up calling, I don't want you to think it's a slowroll," he said, leaning back in his chair. Seiver would spend the next four or five minutes tossing the decision around in his head. "How are two queens right here?" he asked at one point. After another minute, he seemed to be convinced he was beaten. "It's all making sense. All of it. I wish you had bet the flop, I'd be so much happier."
Finally, Seiver did make the call, but we'd never see the two queens he claimed to have. Laak tabled , and his overpair is good enough to collect the knockout. Seiver is out as the third casualty of the day, while Laak has worked his way close to 390,000 courtesy of those cowboys.
On a 
flop, we picked up three-handed action as Ashton Griffin bet 13,000 into a pot of just more than that. Nick Schulman folded, but Sorel Mizzi wanted to see another card.
He called, and the was the turn card. Griffin bet again, 32,000 this time. Mizzi gave it a look but he could not call, and his folding earns Griffin the pot and a chip boost back up to 195,000.
Level: 4
Blinds: 1,000/2,000
Ante: 300
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