In a hand against Sorel Mizzi, Nam Le managed to flop a straight, holding on a board. Their chips got in the middle and his hand held up against Mizzi's for top pair. Le doubled to 700,000 while Mizzi slipped to 300,000.
Matusow makes his exit
Mike Matusow just walked away from the tables and spat a single F-bomb. That was a pretty good one-word sumamry of what happened on the river on the hand that spelled his elimination.
With the action folded to him in the small blind, Matusow made it 25,000 to go. Keith Lehr, in the big blind, slid out a tall stack of green 25,000-denomination chips, setting Matusow all in. He made the call.
It was for Matusow vs. for Lehr. The flop was a safe-looking . The on the turn gave Lehr a gutshot straight draw, but the that spiked on the river made him top pair, eliminating Matusow. Hence, the F-bomb.
So close, yet, so far
Humberto Brenes raised to 28,000 from under the gun; Nam Le and David Baker made the call from behind. A short stack Steve Weinstein moved all in from the small blind for just 66,000. Brenes then came over the top, shipping in his entire stack. Le and Baker got out of the way.
Weinstein -
Brenes -
The board came . Although Weinstein flopped a pair and turned a flush draw, he couldn't crack Humbero's aces on the river to stay alive.
Vanessa Rousso
Vanessa Rousso and Bruno Fitoussi, both short on chips, just tangled in a hand in which Rousso was all in with versus Fitoussi's . A four flopped, and no ace or queen came, meaning Rousso had doubled up to 165,000.
Soon afterwards, Fitoussi survived a three-way preflop all-in with his last 17,000 versus Andrew Robl and Brian Rast, and so tripled back to close to 60,000.
Mike Matusow
Brian Townsend opened the pot for a 28,000 raise from early position only to have Mike Matusow come over the top for a his chips. Action folded back around to Townsend who made the call for the additional 88,000 with . Matusow flipped over and was racing for his tournament life.
The board came giving Matusow a pair of jacks and the pot. He doubles up to 205,000 while Townsend takes a small hit leaving him with 1,470,000.
Auf Wiedersehen, Markus
Short-stacked and needing to make a move, Markus Lehmann moved all in from late position holding , but ran into Sorel Mizzi's pocket jacks. No love for Lehmann on the board and he hit the rail.
Iced latte good, A-K no good
Emil Patel opened for 43,000 from early position and the action was folded around to Brian Townsend in the big blind. He moved all in, and Patel made the call. Townsend had him significantly covered.
Patel
Townsend
The flop couldn't have been more perfect for Townsend, coming down to make him top set. The turn was the , the river was the and Townsend took down the massive pot, eliminating Patel.
Townsend currently holds the chip lead with 1,530,000.