Almost as soon as it was announced that the players were in the money, the "seat open" call was heard everywhere. 65 was the lucky number to make the money, and in 30 minutes we've lost 20 players. We're updating the chip counts and player base as fast as possible.
A player sitting next to Scotty Nguyen showed the and was the bring-in. She completed and everyone folded around to Scotty. Scotty quickly looked at his hole cards, and with the showing raised into her. The player folded her hand and Scotty took it down.
Chad Brown managed to make a 3-4-5-6-7 straight by seventh street, which was good enough to scoop against Mark Heimiller, who had kings up for the high. After the hand, Brown is up to 31,000 and Heimiller is down to 13,500.
After having his table broken and being moved to a new one, Mike Landers was positioned to the left of O'Neil Longson. Upon arrival, Landers looked at Longson and said, "Out of the frying pan, into the fire! I'm playing against the world's best PLO player!"
Kandall Skaggs was eliminated by O'Neil Longson when Longson hit a jack-high flush draw against Skaggs's aces up. Longson is up to 47,000 after the hand.
Jeff Rodriguez made a 2-3-4-5-6 low, one off of the nut wheel, but scooped anyway in a hand against Mark Heimiller and Chad Brown. Brown was all in by the river with a lesser low, and was eliminated.