Steve Levy's aces were no match for Steve Cho's after Cho turned the nut flush. Derek Snyder, short-stacked with only 32,000 remaining chips, got caught in the crossfire after all the money went in preflop. Snyder and Levy were both eliminated on the hand after Cho scooped a pot worth almost 240,000.
Shaniac Gone
"Never go broke in an unraised pot," Texas Dolly once said. Shane "Shaniac" Schleger may have wished he remembered that lesson. With one player limping in preflop, Schleger limped on the button. The small blind folded and Jeff Wiedenhoeft checked his option from the big blind for a three-way flop of .
Action checked to Schleger, who bet 8,000. Wiedenhoeft raised the minimum to 16,000. After the third player folded, Schleger fired back with a raise to 56,000. Wiedenhoeft instantly raised a third time to 135,000 and Schleger, with only 34,000 chips behind, called all in.
Schleger:
Wiedenhoeft:
The board bricked out, bouncing Schleger from the tournamnt. Wiedenhoeft's stack increased to about 225,000.
Clayton Kalisek has jumped up the leaderboard. He got all his chips in preflop, holding pocket kings, against the of Sean Porter. The board came , with Kalisek's kings holding. He climbs to 190,000 in chips. Porter remains alive but crippled with just 52,000 remaining.
Michael Ium, sitting in the hijack seat for this hand, opens the pot for a raise to 16,000. The cutoff folds, but the button, Ryan Roeder, makes a reraise all in for 103,500. Ium goes into the think tank for several minutes before finally announcing, "I call."
The cards are turned over, Roeder with , and Ium with a modest . Roeder's pocket pair holds up as the board runs out . Roeder doubles up to 210,000, while Ium takes a big step back and has only 81,000 left.
Aaron Coulthard got all in preflop holding pocket rockets against the Big Slick of Paul Fehlig. The board came , sending Fehlig to the rail for a payday of $6,972.
After the hand, Coulthard had approximately 230,000 chips.
As the witching hour approaches here in the Amazon Room, nerves are starting to fray. On a three-way flop of , Ginikachukwu Izuogu moved all in for his tournament life. He was called by James Akenhead. The third player in the hand, Mike Ngo, contemplated a call for three minutes before folding. With Ngo out of the way, the remaining players opened their hands:
Izuogu:
Akenhead:
The turn helped neither player. As the dealer burned and turned the river, Ngo, who had folded the flop, called out, "Spade, one time!" The river was indeed the , making a nut flush for Izuogu.
Akenhead immediately turned on Ngo. "Why the f*ck are you calling for a spade?" he yelled. "You're not even in the hand!" A spectator on the rail who appeared to know Akenhead then jostled Ngo. Ngo immediately called a floor over to the table, who escorted the spectator out of the Amazon Room.
Akenhead remains in the tournament with approximately 39,000 in chips. Izuogu jumped to about 360,000.
James Akenhead, the victim of Ginikachukwu Izuogu's rivered flush just a few minutes ago, has doubled up twice to rebuild a stack of about 180,000. His Big Slick out-flopped Aaron Kanter's pocket tens, and then his pocket fives survived a race against Jon Heneghan's Big Slick. Kanter is down to 62,500; Heneghan is on life support at 17,000.