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.
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.