Huck Seed bets 35,000 in early position. Ben Lamb calls in middle position. Alan Keating raise to 100,000 on the button and both fold.
Hand #2
Board:
In the next hand, Ben Lamb bets 40,000 in middle position and Alan Keating makes it 100,000. Lamb calls. On the flop, Lamb checks and Keating bets 134,000. Lamb re-raises to 284,000 and Keating three-bets it to 459,000. Lamb thinks about it for five minutes and lays it down. Keating shows and Lamb says he had it beat. "That's the secret to No Limit," Keating says. "Putting players to a decision for all their chips."
Hand #3
Board:
Soon after that, on the flop, Michael Zinna shoves with the nut flush: and Ben Lamb calls with . Lamb needs lots of help on the turn and river and doesn't get it. He is out and Zinna is at 1,500,000.
Paul Spitzberg raised 67,000 preflop and Jeff "Mr. Rain" Banghart called. The flop was . Mr. Rain checked, Paul Spitzberg bet 103,000 and Mr. Rain called. The turn was the . Mr. Rain checked. Paul Spitzberg bet 500,000 and Mr. Rain check-raised all in for 1,720,000. Paul Spitzberg quickly called.
Mr. Rain:
Spitzberg:
Mr. Rain had flopped a set, but Paul Spitzberg turned a higher set. The river was the and Paul Spitzberg doubled through Mr. Rain. After that hand, Paul Spitzberg increased his stack to 2.8 million while Jeff "Mr. Rain" Banghart slipped to 600,000.
Shortly before the dinner break, Bo Sehlstedt raises from middle position to 40,000, Avi Cohen calls from middle position, Tom Peterson raises from the big blind to 137,000, Sehlstedt moves all in for 226,000, Cohen folds, and Peterson calls with . Sehlstedt shows , and he'll need it to hold up to stay alive.
The board comes , and Peterson flops two pair to win the pot.
Just before dinner, on the flop, Michael Zinna bets 55,000 and Huck Seed calls. On the turn, Zinna bets 110,000 and Seed calls. On the river, Zinna checks and Seed goes all in. Zinna calls and Seed shows for the straight versus Zinna's set. Seed is up to 584,000. Zinna has 1,408,000.
Jon Moonves raised to 40,000 from early position and Robin Bergren called from the small blind. The flop was . Bergren checked, Mooves moved all in and Bergren insta-called. Bergren showed for a set of threes and Moonves turned over for an overpair and a straight draw. The turn was the , but the river was the , making Moonves a higher set and he took down a monster pot.
David Levi
After a flop of , David Names checks, David Levi bets 80,000, Markus Gonsalves folds, Names raises to 225,000, and Levi goes into the tank. After several minutes of thinking, Levi folds face up, leaving himself with just 140,000.
Levi asks Names what he had, and he says, "I had a redraw." As the pot is pushed to Names, Levi continues the pressure, and Names relents, turning over -- it would have been a chopped pot.
There are 17 tables remaining, with only 149 players.
Here are the seating assignments for all 17 tables.
For a list of bustouts, click the "Prizepool and Payouts" link on the right side of this page.
ESPN's Featured Table (9 players)
Seat 1 - Jeff "Mr. Rain" Banghart
Seat 2 - Marco Mills
Seat 3 - Gus Hansen
Seat 4 - Daniel Alaei
Seat 5 - Ayaz Mahmood
Seat 6 - Bryan Swanson
Seat 7 - Paul Spitzberg
Seat 8 - Senovio Ramirez III
Seat 9 - Scotty Nguyen
TABLE 61 (7 players)
Seat 1 - Ken Evanowski
Seat 2 -
Seat 3 - Lee Childs
Seat 4 -
Seat 5 - Vadim Trincher
Seat 6 - Kelly Jo McGlothlin
Seat 7 - Ang Pang Leng
Seat 8 - Zhuang Han
Seat 9 - Hoa Nguyen
TABLE 62 (9 players)
Seat 1 - Philip Yeh
Seat 2 - Mickey Seagle
Seat 3 - William Spadea
Seat 4 - Diego Cordovez
Seat 5 - Reagan Silber
Seat 6 - Bill Edler
Seat 7 - Imran Ahmad
Seat 8 - Hyon Kim
Seat 9 - Jared 'Waco Kid' Hamby
TABLE 63 (8 players)
Seat 1 - Maria Ho
Seat 2 -
Seat 3 - Warren Karp
Seat 4 - Chris Lovelace
Seat 5 - Jason Welch
Seat 6 - Ryan Elson
Seat 7 - Ed Betlow
Seat 8 - Christian Togsverd
Seat 9 - Joe Shield
TABLE 64 (9 players)
Seat 1 - Jerry Yang
Seat 2 - Justin King
Seat 3 - John Armbrust
Seat 4 - Kevin Farry
Seat 5 - Matt Keikoan
Seat 6 - John Kalmar
Seat 7 - Matt Stout
Seat 8 - Greg Huffman
Seat 9 - Richard Harris
TABLE 65 (8 players)
Seat 1 - Francis Cagney
Seat 2 -
Seat 3 - Berry Johnston
Seat 4 - Jeff Tinkel
Seat 5 - Leonard Pruzansky
Seat 6 - Bjorn-Erik Glenne
Seat 7 - Paulo Loureiro
Seat 8 - Bill Baxter
Seat 9 - Bart Hanson
TABLE 66 - 9 players
66-1 Kevin Kim
66-2 Willie Tan
66-3 Kirk Morrison
66-4 Jeff Bryan
66-5 Neil Channing
66-6 Humberto Brenes
66-7 Wolbert Bautlema
66-8 Thomas Koo
66-9 Ryan Larwence
TABLE 67 (9 players)
Seat 1 - Tommy Le
Seat 2 - Jon Moonves
Seat 3 - Tuan Lam
Seat 4 - David Wells
Seat 5 - Kenny Tran
Seat 6 - Martin Miller
Seat 7 - Josh Evans
Seat 8 - Robin Bergren
Seat 9 - Lee Watkinson
TABLE 68 (9 players)
Seat 1 - Mark Weitzman
Seat 2 - Raymond Rahme
Seat 3 - Peter 'Nordberg' Feldman
Seat 4 - David Names
Seat 5 - David Levi
Seat 6 - Raj Verma
Seat 7 - Allan King
Seat 8 - Mark Ellerbe
Seat 9 - Markus Gonsalves
TABLE 69 (9 players)
Seat 1 - Jim Kasputis
Seat 2 - Charis Anastasiou
Seat 3 - Jimmy Blevins
Seat 4 - Stefan Mattsson
Seat 5 - Samuel Padgett
Seat 6 - Francois Safieddine
Seat 7 - Steven Garfinkle
Seat 8 - Adam White
Seat 9 - Jeff Weiss
TABLE 71 (9 players)
Seat 1 - Peter Darvill
Seat 2 - Dag Martin Mikkelsen
Seat 3 - Sylvester Geoghegan
Seat 4 - Claude Cohen
Seat 5 - Mikkel Madsen
Seat 6 - Kenneth Smith
Seat 7 - Justin Sadauskas
Seat 8 - Adam Weiss
Seat 9 - Thierry van den Berg
TABLE 72 (8 players)
Seat 1 - Robert Nehorayan
Seat 2 - Michael Zinna
Seat 3 - Huckleberry Seed
Seat 4 - Alex Kravchenko
Seat 5 - Tom Peterson
Seat 6 - Brian Tracy
Seat 7 - James Williams
Seat 8 - Alan Keating
Seat 9 - Jason Koshi
TABLE 73 - 9 players
73-1 Richard Murnick
73-2 Isaac Haxton
73-3 Scott Freeman
73-4 Tim Begley
73-5 Zack Clark
73-6 Floyd Clark
73-7 Paul Kershav
73-8 John Bird
73-9 Andrew Gunderson
TABLE 75 - 9 players
75-1 Lamar Wilkinson
75-2 Naseem Salem
75-3 Chad Brown
75-4 Nicolas Atlan
75-5 Richard Crowell
75-6 Thor Hansen
75-7 Andreas Krause
75-8 Billy Willis
75-9 Travis Belles
TABLE 76 - 8 players
76-1 Roy Winston
76-2 Al Rapaport
76-3 Ed De Haas
76-4 Ron Kluber
76-5 Hevan "Rain" Khan
76-6 Avi Cohen
76-7 -
76-8 Cody Slaubaugh
76-9 Rep Porter
TABLE 77 - 7 players
Seat 1 - Phillip Liou
Seat 2 - Patrick Huse
Seat 3 - Brandon Adams
Seat 4 - Bob Slezak
Seat 5 - Bob Lauria
Seat 6 - Stig Tap Rasmussen
Seat 7 - Jay Franklin Benjamin
TABLE 78 (9 players)
Seat 1 - David Tran
Seat 2 - John Spadavecchia
Seat 3 - Julian Gardner
Seat 4 - Philip Hilm
Seat 5 - Alan Levin
Seat 6 - Pete de Best
Seat 7 - Dario Minieri
Seat 8 - Andrew Barnes
Seat 9 - Mark Muchnik
and Lamb says he had it beat. "That's the secret to No Limit," Keating says. "Putting players to a decision for all their chips."
and Ben Lamb calls with 
. Lamb needs lots of help on the turn and river and doesn't get it. He is out and Zinna is at 1,500,000.
. Mr. Rain checked. Paul Spitzberg bet 500,000 and Mr. Rain check-raised all in for 1,720,000. Paul Spitzberg quickly called.
and Paul Spitzberg doubled through Mr. Rain. After that hand, Paul Spitzberg increased his stack to 2.8 million while Jeff "Mr. Rain" Banghart slipped to 600,000.
. Sehlstedt shows 
, and Peterson flops two pair to win the pot. 
set. Seed is up to 584,000. Zinna has 1,408,000.
for a set of threes and Moonves turned over 
for an overpair and a straight draw. The turn was the 
, David Names checks, David Levi bets 80,000, Markus Gonsalves folds, Names raises to 225,000, and Levi goes into the tank. After several minutes of thinking, Levi folds 
face up, leaving himself with just 140,000. 
