Al Rapoport has been knocked out after the one card in the deck that would see him scooped came on the turn.
He was all in on a board with against Michael Solomon's but then the appeared on the turn and Solomon had made the nut flush and his A-6 now played. Rapoport was left drawing for a just to get a quarter but it didn't come on the river and he was eliminated.
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow is living up to his nickname as he always does. Over at his table, he's been talking constantly with Eli Elezra. Matusow stated that he'd love to play pot-limit Omaha-8 "over there", meaning in Bobby's Room at the Bellagio. Elezra asked what limits and Matusow told him $2,000-4,000.
"There'd have to be a cap." said Elezra.
"That's fine, the game would play fine with a cap of $100,000. That's like $100,000 of dead money out there every hand." Matusow commented.
Matusow then talked about how Elezra should try and get the game up and running so Matusow can play. "You can put me in." he said to Elezra. "And I'll even put up half. I won't lose in that game."
After a quick breeze around the room, here are some chip counts.
Amnon Filippi - 125,000
Stewart Yancik - 95,000
Chris Bell - 67,300
Scott Clements - 62,500
Eli Elezra - 45,000
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow - 45,000
Jason Mercier - 40,000
Andy Bloch - 27,000
Mike Sexton - 25,800
Chris Reslock - 23,100
Mike Binger - 14,000
George Danzer is over 80,000 after a couple of key pots.
First he 3/4-ed Brett Richey holding on a board with all the money going in on the turn. Richey held so Danzer was freerolling the high and only had to avoid an ace on the river to scoop the low.
Also he limp/called from the small blind against the big blind's raise.
Both checked the flop, Danzer admitted, "I was giving up at this point," but the big blind checked behind him.
On the turn, Danzer checked again and his opponent potted for 7,200. Danzer repotted, and got called.
The river was the , "A great card for me," said Danzer, "since it counterfeits A-2." He checked and his opponent checked behind. Danzer showed his hand, a pair of tens and A-7 scooping the whole pot.
Michael Binger has been knocked out by Kirill Rabatov, after all the money went in on a flop. Binger held but was in hot water against . The turn and river came and and Binger found himself scooped and out of the tournament.
Brett Richey just doubled on a board of holding . All of the money went in on the flop and George Danzer was the caller. Danzer's hand was unknown. Richey now has 28,000 chips.
Mickey Appleman started the day as a short stack with only 14,000 chips. He soon tripled up and then busted two players shortly after to build his stack even more. Taking a gander at his stack now, Appleman is sitting on only 6,000 chips.
Jason Mercier has been knocked down to a short stack after getting it in with against Andy Bloch's on a board. Mercier's hand was in OK shape: put paid to his hopes and left him with just 6,000 left.
However he managed to double up soon after, scooping Roland De Wolfe with against De Wolfe's on a board.
Phil Ivey came over while being on a break in the other event. He began playing uber-aggressive and potting a few hands back to back. On the first hand, Ivey potted the action to 5,600 and then Matt Lefkowitz went all in for 7,400 total. Ivey made the call with . Lefkowitz held .
The board ran out and Lefkowitz scooped the pot to move over 16,000. Ivey dropped to 26,200.
On the next hand, Ivey potted the action again. Kirill Rabtsov re-potted the action and then Ivey moved all in. Rabtsov called.
Ivey held and Rabtsov had .
The board ran out to give Mr. Ivey a full house and doubled him back up to 54,800. From there, Ivey was up out of his seat and heading back over to the other event. Lefkowtiz was glad Ivey showed up while Rabtsov didn't enjoy his presence too much.