Priyan Demel must have been feeling good when he got the rest of his chips in with and found himself up against Naseem Salem's , but the flop came , making Salem trips. The turn was the , the river was the , and Demel was eliminated.
On a flop of , Bart Hanson moved all in and Bjorn-Erik Glenne called, having Hanson significantly covered. Hanson turned over for quad tens and had Glenne drawing dead with .
Hanson doubled up to 950,000 on the hand while Glenne slipped to 1,000,000.
Adam Weiss raised, Sven Abelsson Runing pushed all-in and Weiss called. Weiss had and Runing had . The board came , Runing made a set of tens on the flop, but Weiss made a set of kings to win the pot and eliminate Runing.
Avi Cohen
Adam Weiss raises from early position to 30,000, Avi Cohen reraises from the small blind to 90,000, Weiss reraises to 260,000, Cohen moves all in, and Weiss folds. Cohen flashes as he collects the pot.
Team PokerNews player Mikkel Madsen raises to 35,000, Lee Childs reraises from the big blind to 100,000, and Madsen folds.
As Childs is collecting the pot, Ed De Haas says, "Let this go on record. This is the first time in history that a Scandanavian has ever folded to a reraise."
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PokerNews caught up with David Levi on break from Day 4 of the Main Event to chat about playing patiently with a short stack and about his table not being overly aggressive, which he says plays into his style of play well.
Donna Blevins All-In
On a flop of , Donna Blevins moved all in for just over 100,000 and Adam White called. Blevins turned over while White tabled . The turn was the , the river was the and Blevins was eliminated as White added even more chips to his monster stack.
After the hand, White was closing in on the 3,000,000 mark.
On a flop of , Dario Minieri moved all in for 561,000 and Philip Hilm quickly called.
Hilm:
Minieri:
Both players had gutshot straight draws but Minieri was ahead with King high. The turn was the and the river was the . Minieri won the pot with.... King high. Minieri increased his stack to 1.43 million while Hilm slipped to 570,000.
We mentioned yesterday during the money bubble that there would be a nine-player tournament for the last nine players eliminated before the money in the Main Event. Well, today they had that event, and the winner is ...
Lee Dryer.
For coming so close to the $20,320 payday that 621st would have awarded, and rebounding the next day to defeat eight more bubble boys, Mr. Dryer receives a $10,000 entry into the 2008 WSOP Main Event, along with a year's supply of beer provided by Milwaukee's Best (which we heard amounts to four cases a month - or around 4 beers a day).
There was no word on what the bubble player received in the bubble tournament.