On a flop of Kurt Paseka moved all in for 90,000, Tommy Vu called from the cutoff, and Amir Vahedi re-raised all in for over 600,000. After moving all in, Vahedi got out of his chair and began pacing while Vu went into the tank for several minutes. Vu cringed and pulled his hair while trying to make a decision and eventually a clock was called on him.
As the floor counted down Vu's last seconds to make a decision, he pulled a coin out of his pocked and declared "heads, I call, tails I fold." Vu flipped the coin, it came up tails, and he folded.
Paseka showed the , behind to Vahedi's set of fives. The turn was the , but the river was the , which would have made Vu the nut flush. Needless to say, Vu wasn't too happy about that. Paseka was eliminated on the hand.
Vahedi is up to 1,020,000 and remains the chip leader.
Michael Binger moved all in from the small blind with J-8 and Dolph Arnold called with . There was no help to either player on the board and Arnold's queen-high was good enough to eliminate Binger.
Marcello Del Grosso was all in pre-flop with vs. Arnold Spee's . Del Grosso hit an ace on the flop and doubled up to 345,000, crippling Spee, who fell down to only 51,000.
Pre-flop, Amir Vahedi raised from the button, Jason Strasser moved all in, and Vahedi immediately called. Vahedi talbed the while Strasser was behind, holding .
"No bad beat today, baby. No bad beat!" implored Vahedi as the flop came out . The turn was the , the river was the , and Strasser was sent home.
Vahedi is on a serious roll and sits at 1,360,000.
The pace of play has slowed considerably as we approach the televised final table bubble. An ESPN crew has swarmed both of our remaining tables, hoping for some good sound bites and "b-roll" (secondary footage). Though there is a substantial ($10,000+) pay jump from 10th place to 11th place, what weighs even more on the minds of some of these players is the chance to play on TV and the opportunites such exposure may afford.
Michael Chu raised from the button, Todd "Dan Druff" Witteles moved all in from the small blind and Chu called. Chu showed the while Witteles flipped up the . The flop gave Witteles trips, Chu's hand did not improve on the turn or the river, and Witteles doubled up.
After the hand, Witteles was up to 190,000 and Chu was down to 470,000.