Scotty - not running hotty
Oh dear, some dreadful luck for Scotty Nguyen. He got the last of his stack in with pocket queens, but Greg Mueller made a straight with in the big blind to knock him out.
Last Buchanan standing, Stephen, ain't standing no more.
He raised preflop and then four-bet to a reraise from Josh Arieh. He then proceeded to bet every street of the board, eventually getting his last 6,000 in on the river, and Arieh called him all the way down. What monstrous premium hands could these two have?
Annie Duke
After folding on the river on a board of in a 40,000-chip pot and leaving herself just 3,500 to fight with, Annie Duke moved her last chips into the middle preflop with but ran into the of Kenny Hsiung.
Josh Mountain raised and then four-bet to a reraise from Matt Hawrilenko on the button; Hawrilenko called and they saw a flop. Mountain bet out and Hawrilenko called, and Mountain bet out on the turn as well. Again Hawrilenko called, and they saw the river. This time Mountain check-called Hawrilenko's bet -- and then mucked in absolute disgust as Hawrilenko turned over .
Mountain: drops down to 85,000
Hawrilenko: our current chip leader on 272,000
I can count the number of outs he had on one finger...
Noah Boeken has been eliminated in dramatic fashion with his opponent reportedly hitting a one-outer on the river to take the pot.
We didn't see the betting action but we were told that Boeken held pocket aces with the and with three spades on board, and Lex Veldhuis with only had one card in the deck to catch. It arrived when the fell on the river to leave Boeken headed for the exit in the worst way possible.