Just before the break, Raymond Rahme raises to 400,000 in middle position and Jerry Yang calls. On the flop, Yang checks. Rahme bets 400,000. Yang check-raises to a million and Rahme folds. Yang shows and is up to 4,800,000 while Rahme is down to 2,900,000.
Ryan Elson made it 450,000 to go from late position and the action folded around to Mikkel Madsen who reraised all in; Madsen had Elson covered.
Elson made the call and showed , while Madsen revealed pocket eights. The flop put Elson in the lead and he never looked back, doubling up to 1,900,000 in chips.
The hand left Madsen with a chip stack totaling just over 1,300,000.
Maria Ho raises to 150,000 in the small blind and Kevin Farry reraises to 225,000 in the big blind. Ho is all in for 575,000 more and Farry calls, showing to Ho's . The board comes and Ho is out. Farry has 3,700,000.
Roy Winston raises to 130,000 under the gun and Rep Porter goes all in for his last 15,000 in the cutoff. Tuan Lam calls in the small blind. They check the flop, and then Lam bets 225,000 on the turn. Winston folds and Lam shows to Porter's . The river comes and Porter is eliminated. Lam is up to 3,550,000.
Roy Winston moved all in for 575,000 from middle position. Rep Porter called on the button. The players turned up their hands. Winston showed which slightly trailed the of Rep Porter. Winston spiked the on the flop to win the hand. Winston now has 1,265,000 and has left Porter with 20,000 chips.
Scott Freeman raises to 130,000 in middle position and Bob Slezak calls from late position.
The flop comes and Freeman fires out 250,000. Slezak raises to 550,000 and Freeman moves all in for 1,030,000. Slezak calls, putting himself all in and opens . Freeman has .
The turn and river don't improve Freeman, and Slezak doubles through to just over 2,500,000.
Action folded to William Spadea in the cutoff seat who raised to 150,000. Kevin Kim, playing from the small blind, moved all in for 480,000 total. Spadea made the call and the players showed...
Spadea:
Kim:
The board filled out and Kim's pair of aces held up. Kim doubled to 1,050,000 on the hand, while Spadea fell to 4,800,000 chips.
2 1 Mikkel Madsen
2 2 (empty)
2 3 Ray Henson
2 4 Scott Freeman
2 5 Bob Slezak
2 6 Ryan Elson
2 7 Ayaz Mahmood
2 8 Scotty Nguyen
2 9 Jon Kalmar
3 1 Jason Welch
3 2 Paulo Loureiro
3 3 Stefan Mattsson
3 4 (empty)
3 5 William Spadea
3 6 Jeff Bryan
3 7 Kevin Kim
3 8 Christian Togsverd
3 9 Alex Kravchenko
4 1 Kenny Tran
4 2 Rep Porter
4 3 (empty)
4 4 Robin Bergren
4 5 Tuan Lam
4 6 Peter Darvill
4 7 Lee Watkinson
4 8 Roy Winston
4 9 John Armbrust
5 1 (empty)
5 2 Raymond Rahme
5 3 David Tran
5 4 Hevad "Rain" Khan
5 5 Philip Hilm
5 6 Jerry Yang
5 7 Ronald Kluber
5 8 Jason Koshi
5 9 Allan W. King
6 1 Hoa Nguyen
6 2 Steven Garfinkle
6 3 (empty)
6 4 Maria Ho
6 5 Kevin Farry
6 6 Lee Childs
6 7 (empty)
6 8 Daniel Alaei
6 9 Bill Edler
The action folded around to Philip Yeh in the small blind, who completed the bet. Billy Spadea then made it 200,000 to go from the big blind. Yeh responded with a raise of his own, shoving the rest of his chips into the pot; Spadea made the call.
Yeh showed , while Spadea had him on the ropes with .
The flop all but put an end to Yeh's 2007 Main Event, as he was left drawing to running fives or a running straight cards, but the on the turn sealed the deal, and Yeh was eliminated in 40th place.