Never in trouble chipwise all day, Steve Wong is now a length ahead of his nearest big stack with over 280k. He just scooped a threeway pot from Dustin Sitar and Loi Tran, probably the biggest of the tournament so far.
In a recent Stud-8 hand, Shirley Rosario led the betting on fourth street, before Mark Scott led on fifth. Raymond Davis raised, with both Rosario and Scott calling. On sixth, Scott led again, and again Davis raised. Rosario wanted to call but reluctantly let it go, as Scott reraised once again. Davis called and then called again on the river.
Rosario:
Scott: ()
Davis: ()
Scott tabled a monster with a flush and seven-low, but only collected half as Davis took took the high with a better flush.
Chau Giang Eliminated
Another WSOP event, and another cash for Chau Giang. However, he was recently eliminated in a hand of Omaha-8 when his short stack was in the middle holding . His opponent, Al Emerson, flopped a full house with when the board ran out .
He exits in 32nd place, just in time for the pay jump to $5,197.
We are now on four tables and the players are getting a reasonable amount of leg-stretching time as a bonus for the reshuffles as players bust out.
Latest casualty: Dao Bac, eliminated by Raymond Davis.
One table over and Javid Javani has been making this level work for him, having increased his stack to around 135k (he's a few-and-tall stacker so it's harder to estimate the dangerously swaying towers). His latest addition was at the cost of Ming Lee, who paid off his river raise on a board. "Wheel!" announced Javani, and that explained the sudden flurry of betting on the river when not too much had gone in on earlier streets.
Jan Sorensen has been left on the short stack after he raised preflop, and Dutch Boyd defended in the big blind. Boyd then fired bets on every street and Sorensen made two pair with aces up to call him down, but Boyd had made a king-high flush and the only low to scoop.
Next hand Boyd took a shot at knocking out the short-stacked Simon Zuo however they chopped the pot.
Boyd is remaining ultra-aggressive as he now moves up to 225,000 chips.
Sorensen, now a short stack, found a multiway hand to get it in with preflop in Omaha. After under-the-gun Stuart Spivack raised and picked up two callers by the time it got to Sorensen on the button, he couldn't resist getting it in. He reraised and everyone came along for the ride.
Flop:
Spivack bet out and Bo Toft called behind him into the side pot (third guy with option to call, Dutch Boyd, folded here).
Turn: Now Spivack checked, and Toft bet. Spivack called.
River: Check-check.
Spivack opened his hand to expressions of consternation from the all-in Dane as well as Toft: was his holding, and it scooped the whole 50k+ pot.
"That was supposed to by my pot!" said Carlos Mortensen, pretty much the only one not in it.
"I had ace-four-six of clubs..."
Colin Presby is the latest to head to the cashier after his last chips were taken from him in a hand of Stud. Presby found two pair, queens and sevens, but the flush of Raymond Davis was too much to overcome and he was eliminated from the tournament in 27th place for $5,197.
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and Mascio is eliminated in 30th place as Wong is back on top of the chip leaders with 320,000 chips.
Now Spivack checked, and Toft bet. Spivack called.
