Short Stacks Not Busting... Yet

You would think, with all of the short stacks in the field, that somebody would have busted by now. And you'd be wrong. Every short stack that's been all in -- including the shortest of them all, David Daneshgar -- has survived. David Pham and Men Nguyen were both all in in the same hand against Andre Akkari. Akkari held pocket threes; Nguyen tabled pocket kings; and Pham, the shortest of the three stacks, showed {A-?}

. Pham won the main pot by connecting hard with a board of {J-?}

; Nguyen took the side pot with unimproved kings against Akkari's unimproved threes.

Over on Table 35, the table where not a single player is even close to the average chip stack, preflop action moved to Cody Slaubaugh, who raised 51,000 over the top of a preflop raise from Nenad Medic. With 60,000 chips in the pot, Medic visibly deliberated Slaubaugh's range and the chips up for grabs before moving all in for 31,500 more. Slaubaugh called with {8-Clubs}