It was a battle between Billy Baxter and Bobby Bellande. Baxter flopped a straight with on a board of J-8-7. Bobby Bellande had J-7 and doubled up Billy Baxter.
Daniel Negreanu and Praz Bansi were at it again. Bansi raised on the button to 1.6K. Negreanu called in the big blind. The flop was and both players checked. The turn was and Negreanu fired out 2K. Bansi called. The river was the and Negreanu bet out 7.5K. Bansi went into the tank for a few minutes before he folded. Negreanu flashed .
On a board of , and about 20,000 in the pot, Joe Cassidy's opponent moves in for his last 24,500. Joe takes a solid 5 minutes to decide what to do, as a call would leave him with less than 15,000. Joe finally makes the call, and his opponent shows . Joe flips over , and gets rewarded for his good decision. Joe Cassidy is up to about 83,000 chips.
Antonio Esfandiari was just busted by Deepak Chatti. Both players were all in preflop. Chatti raised and Esfandiarire-raised all in. Chatti called with while Esfandiari said, "Nice hand." He flipped over . Chatti turned a set and Esfandiari was drawing dead.