With the final board showing and about 15,000 in the pot, the under-the-gun player bets 6,000, David Mitchell-Lolis raises to 16,000, and the first player reluctantly calls, saying, "I'll hook you up." Mitchell-Lolis shows for a flopped full house (eights full of sevens), and his opponent mucks.
David Mitchell-Lolis is on a strong run right now, increasing his stack to 82,000.
Three-way pot. On a flop of , one player moved all in for 5,100. A second player called, as did Ted Lawson. The turn was the and it was checked by both players. The river was the . Lawson bet 2,500 and his opponent called. Lawson showed for a flush. Lawson won the main pot and the side pot.
Player B mucked his hand. Player A flipped over 8-7. He flopped the straight but busted out when Lawson rivered a flush. Player A stormed off shouting several F-bombs. Lawson increased his stack to 40K.
After just reporting his short stack hand where he was knocked down with his kings against queens, Karamshi pushed all in with A-K and was called by an opponent with pocket tens. As if things couldn't get worse for Karamshi, his opponent flopped a ten and Karamshi was eliminated.
The Mouth Waves Goodbye
Down to his last 10,000, Mike "The Mouth" Matusow moved all in from the small blind after the player in the cutoff raised to 1,200. The other player called and flipped over pocket jacks, which had Matusow's pocket threes crushed. Despite a desperate cry of "Put a three out there!" from someone in the crowd, the board ran out and Matusow's Main Event was at an end.
On a flop of , Fabrice Soulier called an opponent's all-in for 6,000. Soulier turned up and was behind to his opponent's . The turn was the , making his opponent two pair, but the spiked on the river, giving Soulier a Broadway straight.
Andy Bloch
A player in middle position raised to 1,200 and Bloch, holding , raised to 4,000. The other player called and Bloch made a set on the flop. Both players checked, and on the turn came a card that Bloch will probably see in his nightmares, the . His opponent checked, and when Bloch bet out for 5,000 the other player moved in for 7,000 more. Bloch called and found that his opponent held the and had indeed made a flush. The on the river didn't pair the board and Bloch's day was brought to an end.
Scott Lazar raises to 1,200, a player in middle position calls, and the small blind calls. The flop comes , and all three players check. The turn card is the , the small blind checks, Lazar moves all in for 3,700, the middle-position player folds, and the small blind instantly calls with 9-9 for a set of nines. Lazar shows A-J, and his bluff may have worked better on the flop than on the turn.
Lazar is drawing dead, and the king on the river gives his opponent a full house. Scott Lazar, who finished sixth in the 2005 WSOP Main Event, has been eliminated.
Men "The Master" Nguyen
Men "The Master" Nguyen fell victim to a set over set when he flopped a set of fives versus his opponent's flopped set of nines.