Our chip leader at the start of the day Farzad Rouhani is racing ahead, increasing his stack to around 900,000 at the moment. The next biggest stack is John Cernuto, on around 400,000. Cernuto had more, but just lost a massive Omaha pot to Rouhani, who rivered a small flush to scoop.
Looking a bit deperate currently is Yueqi "Rich" Zhu, on just 70,000.
John Cernuto doubles up through Yueqi "Rich" Zhu. Zhu was originally the low card and Racener raised it up on third street -- Racener folded on fourth and left Zhu and Cernuto to take turns betting. All in on sixth street, Cernuto filled up on seventh and Zhu mucked his last card.
Last hand before the break, tensions were mounting between Rouhani and Zhu. Rouhani was incredibly aggressive on every street of the board, in every sense of the word -- he was slamming down his bets, raises, and reraises, and Zhu matched him in all but his expression of fury.
As they reached the river, Rouhani exclaimed, "Now I got you. aces," and flipped over his hand. "Ah, but I three-quarter you," said Zhu calmly. Rouhani is not happy at all.
Zhu raised utg, and Rouhani called from the big blind.
Rouhani bet out on the flop and Zhu called, and they both checked the turn, Rouhani looking Zhu up and down all the while, and Zhu cheerfully not visibly returning the suspicion. Rouhani bet the river and Zhu called; Rouhani sighed as he turned over his hand and declared, "I got a pair of fives."
Rouhani:
Zhu:
"Well, that was good," said Rouhani as Zhu scooped the pot. He didn't mean it.