Frank Gary moved all in for about 10,000, and Greg Debora looked him up from the small blind, putting in the call. The hands were turned over:
Debora:
Gary:
The two were off to the races, and Frank Gary came out on top in the most unconventional manner. The board astoundingly ran out . The quad sixes on the board counterfeited Debora's overpair, and let Gary's play as the winning kicker.
Frank Gary raked in a survival pot worth 22,000 chips, and after the hand, even he was amazed. "I thought this only happened online," he said with a half-chuckle. Debora isn't in much of a laughing mood now, though, as he lost a sizable chunk of his chips on that race.
The board read when Alex Jalali checked to Nam Le. Le decided to move all in for 39,700. Jalali asked for a count and then realized he had Le barely covered.
After some thought, Jalali made the call and showed . Le was running a bluff and held . Le was picked off and sent home.
Todd "Dan Druff" Witteles was all in on the money bubble with just 600 chips. As we speak, he is now sitting with an impressive 68,000, less than an hour later!
In his latest confrontation, he took on Chris Hughes. Witteles raised the action to 4,000, and Hughes re-popped it from the small blind. Witteles called. The flop brought . Hughes bet, Witteles raised, Hughes three bet, and Witteles capped the action. Chris Hughes called the fourth bet, putting himself all in. Good news for him as he tabled and watched Witteles roll over .
The turn was a useless . The river, however, spelled the end for Hughes. The came, making Witteles trip jacks and cracking the overpair. Hughes will head to the rail while Witteles chips up, now closing in on the top of the leader board after being dangerously low a short time ago.
Rolf Slotboom and Michael Guzzardi have been chatting it up a lot since being moved right next to one another. Both players are sponsored by T6 and enjoying their grind through the tournament.
Mitch Schock is also at the table and has only been playing with Guzzardi for a little while now. "He's a card rack. I've only known him for 20 minutes and he's a card rack," said Schock in reference to Guzzardi. All Guzzardi did was look up, eyes spread wide open in amazement that he was called a card rack.
Brandon Lee has slid down and out of the chip counts in a matter of just two hands. Lee had 38,000 chips at the break, but he got involved with Jan von Halle moments ago and lost most of it.
After a series of raises and reraises, von Halle was all in with against Lee's . The board ran to knock Lee down to 13,000.
On the very next hand, he and Quyen Nguyen got in a similar preflop raising battle, this time resulting in Lee being all in. He showed down and was in bad shape versus Nguyen's . The board again missed Lee, and he is busto.