Jeff Madsen
Jeff Madsen was just all in for about 330,000 against Andrew Teng, who had him covered. Teng had , and Madsen .
When the "all in and call" was announced, Mark Vos wandered over to have a looksee. The board ran out , and Madsen's aces held up.
"Boring," joked Vos, wanting to see a more interesting board that would make the players sweat. Madsen liked it just fine, though, and is now up to 690,000.
Andy Schultz - Eliminated
After a flop, the last of Andy Schultz's 320,000 ended up in the middle as he'd flopped top pair with . But Greg Byard had all sorts of outs holding , and, after picking up even more outs when the hit on the turn, Greg caught the on the river to make his flush and knock Schultz out of the tournament.
Greg "FBT" Mueller has just arrived to the ESPN feature table area to observe the action, with Mike Matusow and Chino Rheem leaving their seats to go over and say hello. The three of them stood together offstage to have a conversation for a few minutes during a recent hand, and although we couldn't decipher anything that was being said it was rather humorous to observe that all three were constantly moving their mouths at the same time!
I’m sure there was some sparkling conversation, but I wonder who was actually doing the listening in that threesome?
Victor Ramdin opened the pot with a raise to 42,000. He was called by Nikolay Losev and Sylvain Coeur before recently crippled Deng Dong raised all in for a total of 50,000 from the big blind.
All three players made the call for a four-way flop that came . The action checked through to the turn. Ramdin and Losev again checked to Coeur, who shoved all in for about 300,000. Ramdin went into the tank for several minutes before finally, reluctantly, folding his hand. Losev also got out of the way, allowing Coeur to take his 300,000 back and battle Dong for the main pot.
Dong:
Coeur:
Dong showed a made flush against Coeur's turned two pair. The river made Dong the winner and brought an exasperated groan from Victor Ramdin, who said he folded and would have made a royal flush.
Albert Kim recently took a hit when he ran kings into aces. He got involved again in a three-way pot with Joe Bishop and James McManus. Bishop opened the pot for 55,000, a raise which Kim called. From the small blind, McManus made it 180,000. Bishop called that raise, only to see Kim reraise behind him for a total of 680,000. McManus and Bishop both folded.
Without taking a flop, Kim increased his stack by over 360,000 chips.
Mikael Johansson - Eliminated
Action folded around to Jason Glass in late position and he raised to 44,000. Mikael Johansson moved all in for 220,000 from the cutoff seat and when action folded back to Glass, he made the call. The players showed:
Glass:
Johansson:
Despite flopping an inside straight draw, and turning a "double gutter," Johansson got no help from the board and was eliminated in 141st place. Glass took down the pot and now works with a stack of just over 700,000 chips.
If you followed our coverage of last year's Main Event, you might remember we brought you the occasional update on what a chop would be worth to the remaining players at various stages of the tournament.
The feedback we got was positive, so we figured we'd try it again. Keep in mind that no deals have been discussed and that these scenarios are purely hypothetical and are reported mainly for entertainment purposes to give you a rough idea of how the prize pool would look if it were spread evenly. The results will often surprise you.
So with just 140 players remaining, if all of them were to agree to call it a day and split the remaining prize pool evenly, they'd each walk away with $348,735. That is just slightly more than 16th-place money.
From early position, Mark Owens raised it up to 50,000. Alex Tinsley shoved behind him for 157,000 total. Action folded back to Owens, who made the call with . Tinsley opened for the preflop lead. He took the post-flop lead as well on a board of . Owens caught a pair when the turn came , but the river settled the score in Tinsley's favor. He doubled up to 330,000 on the hand courtesy of Owens, who is down to 770,000.
Chris Zapf picked up aces at the same time Jason Glass held and when the board ran out Zapf's aces held up and he doubled to 640,000. Glass is now down to 440,000.
Jeremy Joseph just shipped 275,000 chips to David Saab without taking a flop. Joseph raised to 40,000 from the cutoff before Saab reraised from the button to 120,000. Action folded back to an undeterred Joseph, who put in the third raise to 275,000. That didn't faze Saab in the slightest -- he moved all in for about 830,000. Joseph was finally the player to blink first when he mucked his hand.
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, and Madsen's aces held up.
. But Greg Byard had all sorts of outs holding 
, and, after picking up even more outs when the 
hit on the turn, Greg caught the 
on the river to make his flush and knock Schultz out of the tournament.
. The action checked through to the 
turn. Ramdin and Losev again checked to Coeur, who shoved all in for about 300,000. Ramdin went into the tank for several minutes before finally, reluctantly, folding his hand. Losev also got out of the way, allowing Coeur to take his 300,000 back and battle Dong for the main pot.
and would have made a royal flush.
for the preflop lead. He took the post-flop lead as well on a board of 
. Owens caught a pair when the turn came 
