J.C. Tran and John Racener just left to go play golf. Tran had shoved four times in a row and this was the fifth time - they wanted out of this tournament badly. Tran had J-6 to his opponent's 4-4, and the opponent catches another 4 on the turn.
Joe Reitman has been seen wandering the floor of the Rio where he's not shy about admitting that he lasted a mere seven minutes in today's tournament after his boat ran into a bigger boat.
In the small blind, director Kevin Smith moved in with the . Bad timing--his opponent turned over . Smith needed an Ace, and then, as if in a movie, an Ace hit on the flop! Thing is, Smith's movies usually don't follow the typical happy, Hollywood formula, and his final hand didn't either. A King also flopped to give his opponent a set, and that was The End to Smith's day.
Bill Gilow gets it all in with J-J versus A-K preflop and gets to knock his opponent down to 75 in chips. On the next hand, Gilow has to the same player's and finishes him off like a matador. He has 13,875.