Barry Greenstein opened with a raise and then Stefan Rapp reraised. Greenstein made the call. The flop came down and Barry checked. Rapp bet and then Greenstein raised. Rapp made the call.
The turn was the and Barry led out. Rapp raised and Greenstein folded, dropping to roughly 13,500.
Jeff Madsen - 19,000
Scotty Nguyen - 14,200
Annie Duke - 12,400
Chris "Jesus" Ferguson - 10,000
Shannon Elizabeth - 7,900
Daniel Negreanu - 7,400
Anna Wroblewski - 5,000
The 452 entrants for today's Event #21 created a prizepool worth over $1.2 million. First place will be almost $312,000 and a min-cash will return you $5,277. Good luck to all the competitors.
Last year's champion of the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event looks like he is our current chip leader. James Shaaf is up to 40,000 and change. He's sitting at a table with Fabrice Soulier, Nikolay Evdakov, and Vanessa Rousso.
Picking up the action on fifth street, here's how the boards looked:
Billy "The Croc" Argyros: (X-X)
Opponent: (X-X)
Argyros bet and his opponent called. Argyros picked up the and his opponent picked up the . Both players checked. After receiving their seventh cards, Billy The Croc fired a bet. His opponent made the call.
Argyros said, "You probably got me." and turned up ( ). His opponent showed ( ) for two pair and scooped the pot. Billy is down to 5,500 chips.
With the field so stacked as it is today, it's inevitable that some of the bigger names in the field be sent home early. Robert Williamson III, Ivan Demidov, and Linda Johnson have all been sent to the rail much earlier than they would have liked.
Dutch Boyd also busted recently. Dutch was all in after third street in stud and his opponent ran out to make a straight and eliminated Boyd from the tournament.
Christopher Amaral just had to bring in the action four times in a row during his table's round of stud. After the fourth time he brought in showing the lowest card on the table, Amaral stood up and pulled out a $100 bill from his pocket. He told the dealer that if she dealt him one more low card so that he had to bring in he'd give her the money. Amaral was dealt a three and it looked as if the dealer was going to get a nice tip. As she dealt each card, Amaral cheered for him to stay the lowest on the table, but the final card she flipped over was a deuce and kept her from the nice C-note.