Andre Johnstone - Eliminated
On a flop of , Andre Johnstone stacked off against Clint Schafer and with his tournament life on the line, the players showed:
Johnstone:
Schafer:
It was a classic "set over set" cooler for Johnstone who failed to improve. He hit the rail. After Johnstone's chips were passed over to Schafer, the latter sits on a stack of about 1,075,000.
Aleksandar Rasic left the Amazon Room at the last break along with all of the other players in the field. It is standard operating procedure here at the WSOP; players are not allowed to be in the tournament room until roughly five minutes are left on break. When he came back from smoking, he was just a bit tardy. He found that his table, Orange #40, had been broken immediately after play resumed. The only problem was, Rasic's stack was gone.
A search was immediately commenced by the floor staff. They went from table to table looking for dead stacks; announcements were made over the P.A. system; and members of the media were consulted to see if they know where Rasic was supposed to be seated. All of those efforts proved fruitless.
Harrah's surveillance staff reviewed the footage of the incident and was able to determine that the player seated immediately beside Rasic at Orange #40, Peter Traply, had accidentally scooped up Rasic's tiny stack (approximately 60,000 chips) when he transferred his own massive stack (over 800,000) to his new table. This appeared to be completely unintentional on Traply's part; the two stacks were very close to each other on Orange #40, and Traply inadvertently swept Rasic's chips up with his own.
Once that determination was made, the floor staff approached Traply, explained the situation, and took 60,000 chips out of his stack to give back to Rasic. Thirty-five minutes into the level, Rasic was finally seated at Blue #36, Seat 3 -- the seat formerly occupied by Maya Antonius, who was one of several players to bust in the interim.
After Ross Smith raised to 15,000 on the button Chris Barrile reraised to 61,000 from the small blind. Lanini Davor then reraised to 121,000 from the big blind. That's when Smith brought out the heavy artillery and moved all in for 310,000. Barrile folded, Davor folded, and Smith pulled in a big pot without ever seeing the flop. He's now up to 500,000.
Brian Lamanna opened with a preflop raise to 18,000 before Peter Neff reraised to 100,000 from the big blind. Lamanna made the call with his tournament on the line.
Lamanna:
Neff:
The board fell to give Neff a pair of aces and dash the hopes of Brian Lamanna.
Mike Blocksidge
Robert Ford and Mike Blocksidge got into a preflop raising war, Ford ending up all in with vs. Blocksidge's . The flop was , the turn was the , but the spiked on the river to snap off Blocksidge's kings. He was crippled to only 25,000 while Ford raked in the 980,000 pot.
On a subsequent hand, Blocksidge open-shoved for the rest of his chips and Brandon Becker called. Blocksidge held to Becker's . It just wasn't Blocksidge's day, as the flop came down , Becker hitting two pair. The turn was the , the river was the and Blocksidge was eliminated. Becker is now up to 390,000.
Alan Jaffray, David Saab
David Saab got it all in preflop with and found himself up against Alan Jaffray's . The board came , and Saab moves up to 940,000. Jaffray is now down to 210,000.
"Mark Vos, watch out!" said Saab afterwards. "I'm coming for you." He's nearly there, as Vos (who's playing at another table on the other side of the room) is just over a million at the moment.
Marc Fineman and Cristian Dragomir saw a flop of and moved all of their chips into the middle. Fineman was on the short stack with his but held the lead against the of Dragomir.
The turn was the and the river the , to give Fineman the double up with his king kicker. Fineman is up to 500,000 with Dragomir slipping to about 700,000.
Mark Vos
Tom Schaffer had only one move when he picked up . He immediately moved in his last 77,000 chips. Unfortunately for Schaffer, Mark Vos woke up with and made an easy call. His queens held up on a board of to send Schaffer to the cage.
, Andre Johnstone stacked off against Clint Schafer and with his tournament life on the line, the players showed:
to give Neff a pair of aces and dash the hopes of Brian Lamanna.
, and Poels is out.
vs. Blocksidge's 
. The flop was 
spiked on the river to snap off Blocksidge's kings. He was crippled to only 25,000 while Ford raked in the 980,000 pot.
to Becker's 
. It just wasn't Blocksidge's day, as the flop came down 
, Becker hitting two pair. The turn was the 
, the river was the 
and Blocksidge was eliminated. Becker is now up to 390,000.
. The board came 
of Dragomir.
and the river the 
, to give Fineman the double up with his king kicker. Fineman is up to 500,000 with Dragomir slipping to about 700,000.
. He immediately moved in his last 77,000 chips. Unfortunately for Schaffer, Mark Vos woke up with 
and David's queens held up. He's now up to 240,000 while Rastegari was crippled, left with only 45,000.
