We've got nine levels behind us, and everyone is starting to get a little peckish. The clock is on pause, and the players are on an 82-minute dinner break. Play will resume at 7:00 P.M. with about five more hours of action.
Jason Young and a player across the table engaged in a preflop raising war that put about 17,000 chips in the middle heading to the flop.
It came out , and both men checked. They did likewise on the turn, and the raggy landed on the river. Young took his cue to put out a stab of 7,000, and his opponent instantly open-mucked his . It was a good fold; Young obliged him by flashing his as he dragged the pot.
Mike Leah is up to about 60,000 after winning a nice pot. There was about 7,500 in the middle and the board read .
Leah's opponent was first to act and bet 3,700, only to see Leah pop it to 12,200. After thinking it over for about three minutes, Leah's opponent threw in the chips to call. Leah turned over for the rivered straight, besting his opponent's .
It was a three-bet pot that saw Adam Lippert and two opponents head off to a flop of . Lippert checked from the small blind, and the a gentleman calling who goes by "Mr. Hug" led out with an all-in shove that represented an overbet of the pot. That folded the third player out of the way, but Lippert eventually made the call with for his own tournament life. He was drawing nearly dead; Mr. Hug showed up pocket sixes for the flopped set and Lippert was in need of two running cards.
The turn and river were blanks, though, a and an , and the freshly eliminated Lippert gave a long discourse about the play he'd just run into before leaving the room.
Ari Engel found himself in a bad spot with most of his stack of 40,900 at risk with . He tried pushing out his opponent, but failed as his opponent called all in with .
However, Engel spiked the winner as the board ran out , upping his stack to about 77,000.
Friend of PokerNews and all-around good guy Al Riccobono has been eliminated after winning, from what we could see, approximately one pot all day -- the first of his day, in fact. A steady tumble down the chip counts finds him now at zero and out of contention.
, and both men checked. They did likewise on the 
turn, and the raggy 
landed on the river. Young took his cue to put out a stab of 7,000, and his opponent instantly open-mucked his 
. It was a good fold; Young obliged him by flashing his 
as he dragged the pot.
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. Lippert checked from the small blind, and the a gentleman calling who goes by "Mr. Hug" led out with an all-in shove that represented an overbet of the pot. That folded the third player out of the way, but Lippert eventually made the call with 
for his own tournament life. He was drawing nearly dead; Mr. Hug showed up pocket sixes for the flopped set and Lippert was in need of two running cards.
and an 
, and the freshly eliminated Lippert gave a long discourse about the play he'd just run into before leaving the room.
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, upping his stack to about 77,000.