A couple of interested onlookers are high stakes player Sergey Rybachenko and 2008 WSOP Main Event runner up Ivan Demidov. It appears the Russian contingent are out to rail home their buddy and fellow Russian Nikolay Losev.
Losev will need all of their support at the moment as he's currently one of our short stacks.
On a queen-high flop, Jim Buckley turned an ace against Matt Lichtie's to take the lead in the hand and upset Lichtie. "Of course, an ace on the turn," he said.
On the next hand, Lichtie raised and was called by Buckley and Chris Tryba. The flop came and Tryba checked as he was first. Lichtie bet and Buckley folded before Rryba made the call.
The turn brought the and both players checked. The river was the and Tryba fired a bet. Lichtie hesitated and then made the call.
"You're not gonna like it," said Tryba as he tabled . Lichtie looked to the sky and shook his head before mucking his hand.
Just prior to the break, Kevin Hong collected a nice pot when his held on a board of . Hong called down bets on the flop and turn, before checking the river against Shawn Buchanan who could only muster ace-high with his .
Meanwhile David Olson all but doubled up with his taking a nice pot when he fired barrels on all streets on a board of against Chris Tryba. Olson is back up to 78,000 chips.
Matt Lichtie was down to his last 16,000 chips and tossed them into the middle from the big blind after Daniel Negreanu had raised from the small blind.
Lichtie:
Negreanu:
"I got my favorite hand!" giggled Negreanu and the board fell - incredibly giving the pot to Negreanu with just ten-high.
Lichtie departs in 18th place, collecting $8,855 for his efforts, as Negreanu jumps to over 280,000 chips.
Lonnie Hemowitz's stack dwindled down in the past couple of levels and he recently busted at the hands of Nikolay Lesov. The table he was at, table #72, is full of big stacks all around and the power just seemed to overcome Hemowitz as his opponents gobbled him up.