In one of the few multi-way pots, four players see a flop. After everyone checks, Sean Brandow bets out 25,000 only for Geyer to repop for 25,000 total. Brandow pushes all in for a total of 27,000, and Geyer quickly calls the added 2,000 worth of shrapnel.
Although Brandow has flopped the set with , his check allowed Geyer to catch up on the turn, the latter's making a straight and looking good for the win.
However, it's a cruel cruel game, and with the on the river, Geyer takes an untimely hit and sees his stack drop to 22,000. Brandow, meanwhile, jumps up to 52,000.
Brad Helm's stack has been decimated by Orlando Romero and his pocket rockets. A raising war preflop saw the two of them on their backs and everyone else getting out of the way. Helm didn't have much of a hope with his pocket queens, and was drawing dead on the flop when Romero made astounding quads, doubling him up to 47,000 while Helm languishes on 11,000.
If he carries on at this pace, then Alexander Triner is destined to conquer more lands than his namesake could ever have dreamed of, his most recent victim being one Frank Micelli.
We joined the hand at the very end, Triner finishing off his opponent with which had made a flush on the turn. Micelli mucked.
Alexander now looking great with over 80,000 in chips, two and half times his original starting stack.
Andrey Zaichenko is down to a mere small-change 2,800. He and Robert Babyar got all their chips in on the flop. On their backs, Zaichenko had for the nut flush and Babyar had for a set, but the on the turn scuppered Zaichenko, and he's now down to just three or four big blinds.
Chris Clampitt couldn't keep his grip, and busted out holding on a flop against Alexander Veldhuis' pocket kings. No more queens, tens or diamonds, and Clampitt was gone.
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Also treading the long trail home is Chris Vaughn, trying it on with on a raggy seven-high flop and then getting all his chips in on a bluff on the turn. Unfortunately for him, his opponent, Pat O'Connor, had flopped a set of sevens and was disinclined to lay it down, so Chris Vaughn also makes his exit now.
Craig Brennan is now flying high with 55,000 after stumbling upon the pocket rockets. Reraised all in by his opponent's , Brennan called quicker than a hiccup and duly survived a board with relative ease.
The intriguingly named Lisa Teebagy was not, as was briefly feared, a no-show. Instead, she busted out on the second hand of this round, running jacks into Kyle Bowker's kings making her officially our 100th-place finisher.
Even from the privacy of your homes, you may have heard the celebratory whooping of a triumphant David Orvis. With a board of , Orvis made a rather splendid call for 7,500 with just . Ut Nguyen could only muster for a failed bluff.