Duma Lowery shoved all in and Ross Reichert reshoved all in. The action was on Thao Thiem who ended up folding pocket queens .
When the two remaining players hands were revealed, Thiem had made a great laydown, since Lowery held and Reichert, .
A queen hit the flop, which would have given Thiem and pot and eliminated both Lowery and Reichert. However, Thiem folded so it left Lowery in a great spot to double up. The board run out kept Lowery ahead and Reichert took a big hit.
Ernest Garrett, who sacrificed his stack to play in today's flight, has busted. He won today's seat in a satellite, and will probably buy back in, but as of now, he is out.
Bruce "Hammer" Swart just took down a hand on the flop. A player in middle position raised to 500 and Mandy Caffee raised to 1,200. Hammer called from the small blind as did the original raiser.
"I'm terrified as to what your hand is," said Caffee in response to Hammer's call.
When the flop came and Hammer bet 2,000, both the raiser and Caffee folded quickly.
Gary Herstein shoved over a bet of 3,875. Herstein's all in made it 15,125 to go on a board of and his opponent folded.
Vue Thao raised his opponent on the river to 11,000. His opponent led out for 5,000 after an ace hit the river. Thao raised to 11,000 and his opponent called. Thao showed and won the pot.
Jeff Hariu was looking at a board of . He had started the betting making it 1,000 to go. The next player to act reraised to 2,500 and Kirby Rogers shoved for 19,500.
Hariu called for 18,675 and the next player reshoved all in, which ended up being a call since Rogers had Hariu covered.
Rogers showed for an over pair and an open-ended straight flush draw. Hariu was sitting pretty with the nut flush and the third player had for the second-nut flush.
The turn was a black queen, but it was the and teased Rogers a little before the river came the and ended Rogers day. Hariu tripled up and is sitting at just under 50,000
Back in February, Ben Wiora defeated a venue record of 463 entries to take down the Mid-States Poker Tour Wisconsin State Poker Championship at Ho-Chunk Gaming Wisconsin Dells for $114,512. Wiora, primarily a cash player and a regular in Ho-Chunk's games, went into that event with just $16,662 in scattered tournament cashes.
Wiora began that final table as the chip leader and emerged as the clear front-runner with about a third of the chips in play seven-handed. He proceeded to steamroll the rest of the table going wire-to-wire for the win.
The six-figure score was nearly 10 times Wiora's previous largest, which was $12,848 for a runner-up finish in the World Series of Poker Circuit Horseshoe Hammond $580 Pot-Limit Omaha. It was life-changing money for the local boy from Mauston, Wisconsin.
"I feel very fortunate," Wiora told PokerNews. "Having familiar faces dealing the cards and playing at my home casino allowed me to be very comfortable from start to finish in the tournament. I also knew many of the players in the field which may have helped me as well."
Wiora returned to the MSPT in Wisconsin Dells, but was unable to make it through Day 1a. He expected to play Day 1b, but is under the weather and won't be in the field today. So there will be a new champion and another player has a shot at their biggest score.
The 148 remaining players are on a ten-minute break. Registration closes at the start of level 10, so there may be a few more players before the door closes.
Mark Kroon was under the gun and he looked to former MSPT Potawatomi Champ Jason Mirza in the big blind.
"It's your big blind?" said Kroon, "I raise. I'm going after the champ!"
Monty Schmidt was on the button.
"You're going after the champ? I can't miss out on this," said Schmidt as he called.
Mirza called from the big blind and the three players saw the flop of . All three players checked the flop.
The turn was the and Mirza checked. Kroon bet 1,675 and Schmidt called. Mirza folded, leaving Kroon and Schmidt heads up to the river.
"Get him! Get him!" said Mirza to Schmidt as he folded.
Kroon asked he dealer to complete a wheel draw, but the river was the . Kroon checked and Schmidt bet 2,000. Kroon hesitated for a second before calling.
"Jack," said Schmidt and then, "Sh$t, really?" as Kroon turned over .
and Hammer bet 2,000, both the raiser and Caffee folded quickly.
and his opponent folded.
and won the pot.
. He had started the betting making it 1,000 to go. The next player to act reraised to 2,500 and Kirby Rogers shoved for 19,500.
and the third player had 
for the second-nut flush.
and teased Rogers a little before the river came the 
and ended Rogers day. Hariu tripled up and is sitting at just under 50,000
. All three players checked the flop.
. Kroon checked and Schmidt bet 2,000. Kroon hesitated for a second before calling.
