Michael Mizrachi moved in for his last 800 and was called by the big blind, who had 150 less than Mizrachi. Mizrachi's pocket Eights lost out to A-10 when his opponent made a straight on the turn. The Grinder moved all-in on the next hand and, in a four-way pot, was eliminated.
Running low on chips, Johnny Chan moved in with and Melissa Hayden called with pocket Sixes. The flop of gave Chan an open-ended straight draw and a flush draw, and the on the turn gave him a few more outs as a king on the river would've counterfeited Hayden's pair. But a brick hit on the river and that sent Chan out of today's event.
When Strasser called with KQ and found he was racing against Banducci's pocket Nines. Strasser flopped a King to take a lead he didn't relinquish and pushed his stack up to 7,900.
Just before the break, Nam Le pushed all-in on the turn for 2,300 and one player called. The board was . Le was ahead with the against his opponent's . The came on the river and gave his opponent a straight and Le was out the door.
After a flop of Matthew check-raised his opponent to 1,200 and was called. He moved all-in for 1,550 after the and his opponent called and showed , while Matthew flipped over for two pair and the pot.
Freddy Deeb called a preflop raise with A-10 and flopped trip Aces. He called a 500 bet on the flop, a 1,000 bet on the turn and a 1,000 bet on the river and found that his opponent had KK and not a bigger Ace.