Raja Kattamuri opened for 16,000 from the cutoff, Phidias Georgio reraised to 50,500 from the big blind, Kattamuri three-bet to 150,000, Georgio moved all in and Kattamuri called all in for 492,000, creating a million-chip pot as the hole cards were turned over.
Georgio
Kattamuri
The board ran out and Kattamuri raked in the pot, increasing his stack to 1,065,000. Georgio was left with only 110,000.
"Four days of play for this!" cried a clearly disappointed Georgio.
"Nice hand" he added a few moments later as he composed himself.
"Sorry if I scared you!" he said to his massage therapist, who tried to coax the cooler out of his shoulders.
Kara Scott
Preflop, Kara Scott had made it 17,000 to go when a player on the button moved all in. Scott called and showed pocket kings and was up against her opponent's pocket jacks. Scott flopped a set and her opponent failed to improve, sending him to the rail and bumping Scott's count up to 280,000.
Big pairs seem to be holding today with a bit more frequency than we've seen on previous days of the Main Event. Tim Taylor's pocket queens prevailed over Mark Tschirch's pocket sixes on a board of after all the money went in preflop. That hand sent Tschirch to the rail and bumped Taylor up to the 500,000 mark.
After two limpers from late position, including Geert Jans from the button, Russ Silva pushed all in from the small blind for his last 13,500. Jans made the call and the players showed:
Silva:
Jans:
Silva led, but the roles were reversed when flop came . The turn and river were the and respectively and Silva was eliminated.
KOed by the Cowboy
A short-stacked Jason Lester was all in preflop holding vs. Hoyt Corkins' . A king landed on the flop, though, Lester could not improve his hand, and he hit the rail.
ElkY From Day 3
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier moved in for his last 95,000 before the flop with and Anthony Zinno called with . Zinno was looking for an ace and that's just what he found on the flop. The on the turn and brought ElkY no help and his Main Event came to an end.
Devin Porter
Devin Porter moved all in for 71,000 from middle position and Fredrik Halling made the call from the button. Porter's was dominated by Halling's and could not improve on the board.
Terry Stewart raised to 16,000 from late position, and Tomer Berda reraised to 46,000 from the big blind. Berda's bet only left him 34,000 behind, so it was clear he was going to be committed to going all of the way with this one. Stewart went ahead and reraised enough to put Berda all in, and Berda made the call.
Berda showed , and Stewart . The flop was ugly for Berda -- . No sevens or running straight cards came to save him, and Berda is out.