Jon Friedberg stays alive after surviving an all-in encounter in Omaha-8. All in preflop, Freidberg held with a board of for aces up. His opponent mucked.
Hassan Habib adds yet more chips to his stack, his river bet with on a board being called in two spots, one of whom was Thor Hansen whose trips with weren't good enough against the straight of Hassan. The other player had to take half the pot.
Habib sitting pretty with 14,500, whilst Hansen drops to 4,200.
Violette is blue
Cyndy Violette has been eliminated from today's event, all in with K-K-7-8 versus A-A-6-10 in Omaha-8, an ace on the turn and river for quads rubbing salt into already open wounds.
Barry Greenstein must have picked up a few chips somewhere along the line, as even after losing a pretty big hand he's still on an almost twice the average 9,000.
The hand in question saw Greenstein's rather lovely-looking turn to nothing -- at the end of the hand, he flipped over for a sad pair of nines -- his opponent's had meanwhile turned into a rather nice, scoop-y sort of hand, with completing the winning effect.
Incidentally, some unusual antics from the Amazon Room.
Perry Friedman overheard a gentleman talking to someone on the phone saying, "You can't miss me, I'm a 6'8" Asian." The only one I can think of offhand is German pro Benjamin Kang, but the actual identity of the very tall gentleman is unconfirmed.
Meanwhile, Daniel Negreanu is busying his hands with a device that is designed for improving one's golf grip. He even claims that he's been sleeping with it. We'll ask no more questions concerning that one.
Also, we noticed that Mike Matusow was looking pretty trim, and there's a good reason for it. Our super-keen video reporters squeezed the truth out of him thus:
After never really finding his feet in this event, Londoner JJ Hazan has bitten the dust at the hands of Austrian high-roller Markus Golser. Whilst JJ missed his flush draw in Omaha-8, Markus Golser made a straight to the seven to eliminate his British foe.
Tony G, who is mounting a comeback that would put Rocky Balboa to shame, has doubled up with the wheel and is now emerging as a real dangerman with a menacing er... 250 in chips. They're all green 25 chips though, and we all know it's quantity not quality... isn't it?
It really hasn't been a good day for Tony, he even fell off his chair earlier.
A rather desperate-for-chips Noah Jefferson has doubled up to a slightly-less-desperate 3,000 through Markus Golser. Jefferson's up cards were the , up against Golser's -- Jefferson just flipped the and it was enough to make Golser muck. Golser is down to 8,000 or so.