Kenneth Burke busted from the tournament a few minutes ago. We missed the hand, but we just saw the one-time chip leader walk off to the cage to get paid.
"It was a pleasure," he said as he stood up from the table and put his jacket on.
Action folded to a short-stacked player in the small blind who shoved all in without looking at his cards. Ali Jafari called and the hands were turned face-up.
Opponent: 
Jafari: 
The 
flop increased Jafari's lead and his opponent was drawing dead after the 
turned. The 
on the river was but a formality, and Jafari recorded the knockout. He now has 440,000 chips.
Lance Freeman had an opponent all in and at risk preflop holding 
. His opponent was racing with 
and was in deep trouble after the flop fell 
. The 
on the turn ended the hand and the 
on the river gave Freeman a full house just for fun.
Freeman is now among out chip leaders with 800,000 in his stack.
Just before break two major hands went down at adjacent tables.
In the first hand Robert Cheung won a three-way all in with 
. A short-stacked opponent held 
and a player with 
had everyone covered.
The queens held when the board ran 
, doubling Cheung to 460,000 chips and eliminating the short-stacked player.
On an adjacent table Andrew Watson had an opponent all in and at risk on a 
flop. Watson was well ahead with 
and his opponent needed help with 
.
Amazingly, the spiked on the turn. There was still one more card to come though, and the gave Watson a better full house and eliminated his opponent from the tournament.
Watson added to his massive stack and now has 1.2 million chips.
Level: 23
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
Players are now on a one-hour dinner break.
When we looked over at Table 4, TJ Cloutier was up talking with his daughter Elizabeth Hymel who is one of our chip leaders.
Unfortunately Cloutier then exited the room, and with his stack missing on Table 1 we can only assume he's busto.
Andrew Watson had Berry Johnston all in for his last 107,000 preflop. Johnston's was racing against Watson's 
, and Watson held as the board ran 
.
Johnston is off to the cage to collect his winnings while Watson is back over a million.
Aaron "Yossarian80" Ruppert got his stack into the middle with , racing against Julio Marines' 
.
The board ran out 
, ending Ruppert's tournament. Marines, on the other hand, has upped his stack to roughly 600,000.
The board read 
and Ashley Cox was heads-up with Charles "Woody" Moore. Cox checked to Moore who fired 50,000 and Cox check-raised all in for 155,000. Charles quickly called, tabling for a pair of aces and Cox showed 
for a stone-cold bluff.
"Thought you had nothing," she sighed.
The 
on the turn opened some doors for Cox, and she was now open-ended.
"Come on!" she urged the dealer.
The spiked on the river. Cox yelled with excitement, Moore in disgust.
"I'm sorry Woody," she told him. "I thought you didn't have it."
"That looked like one of those internet hands," tablemate Berry Johnston added.
The crazy hand dropped Moore to 250,000 chips while Cox doubled to 370,000.
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