The remaining 20 players are now on a break.
The remaining 20 players are now on a break.
Ned Mantua got all of his 170,000 in chips left in his stack all in on the flop of 

holding the 
for top two pair. Arthur Molloy held the 
and would need some help on the turn or river to eliminate Mantua.
The turn was the
and the river the
to keep Manuta in front and double him up to about 375,000. Molloy dropped back to 560,000.
We're unsure of what happened preflop, but there about about 50,000 chips in the middle on the flop of 

between Leroy Patitz and Donna Jetter, the last woman standing. Patitz announced that he was all in. This is fine and all, but Patitz had Jetter covered and she still had 300,000 chips left in her stack, meaning he was shoving 300,000 into a pot of 50,000. That caught our attention and we stuck around for a couple minutes while Jetter tanked. She eventually gave it up, although claiming that everything in her body said call.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
630,000 | |
|
|
540,000 | |
|
|
350,000 | |
|
|
335,000 | |
|
|
333,000 | |
|
|
321,000 | |
|
|
295,000 | |
|
|
271,000 | |
|
|
260,000 | |
|
|
215,000 | |
|
|
200,000 | |
|
|
170,000 | |
|
|
155,000 | |
|
|
145,000 | |
|
|
140,000 | |
|
|
120,000 | |
|
|
118,000 | |
|
|
85,000 | |
|
|
75,000 | |
|
|
70,000 | |
|
|
Busted |
John McNeilly would just like to say, "Hello, Megan!" to his daughter who's been following along. McNeilly is sitting with 170,000 chips with 20 players remaining.
Andrew Barber has just been eliminated and with his 23rd-place finish, he'll earn 10 points to add to his 67.5 already earned. That puts him at 77.5 for the stop and he's still the frontrunner to be the Casino Champion. Leroy Patitz is still left and will need to finish in fifth place to earn 50 points and overtake hime. Patitz currently has 30 points while being guaranteed at least 10 points as it stands right now.
Kevin Fleming just doubled to about 180,000 when his kings held up against the pocket queens of John Miner.
Richard Peterson raised from under the gun to 24,000. Joseph Mongkoluaaree reraised from the cutoff seat to 100,000 even. Action folded back to Peterson and he moved all in for 110,000. Mongkoluaaree called.
Mongkoluaaree: 

Peterson: 

The door card was the
as the flop came down 

to put Mongkoluaaree in the lead with a set of nines and push Peterson closer to the door. The turn was the
and gave Peterson flush outs, but the
on the river didn't save him and he was eliminated.
The short stacks are shoving chips all over the place right now.
Jeff Lennon was all in for 17,000 before the flop, and Stanley Quinn had enough chips to call him down light with a chance for the knockout.
Lennon tabled
, a favorite to double up against Quinn's
. Things were all peachy through fourth street as the dealer ran out
. The river
was a disaster, though, giving Quinn the pot and sending Lennon out of the ropes.
As he gathered his things, the tournament staff grabbed Lennon and told him to sit tight for a second. The flurry of all-in action meant we needed a head count to figure out whether or not the bubble had burst. A quick triple-check counted 26 players still in their seats, so Lennon has indeed snuck into the money as the 27th-place finisher. He'll take home $2,862 for his two days of work.
With that, we're off into the money without so much as a slowdown to think about hand-for-hand play. Even as we type, the players are still dropping fast!
Reymundo Ozuna had just 7,500 chips to start the hand, and he put them all in from the small blind in the dark. Both Ned Mantua and Ken Churchill came along to see a flop with betting action still live between themselves.
The flop came out
, and Mantua check-called a bet of 7,000. On the
turn, he led out with 20,000 chips of his own, and Churchill called quickly to see the
land on the river. Ozuna was shaking his head. Mantua bet 20,000 again, and Churchill called one last time.
Ozuna showed up his
, and he seemed pretty sure it wasn't going to be good. It wasn't; Mantua turned over
, and his turned trips earn him the knockout and a nice pot.
It appears that Ozuna is out in 28th place, but there's a hand brewing at the adjacent table right now, too.