With 12,400 chips, Roy Winston had only one move. When action folded to his button, he open-raised all in. The big blind called with , two live cards against Winston's . He hit both of his live cards on a board of to send Winston to the rail.
Paul Testud raised to 8,500 before Antonio Esfandiari reraised to 25,000. Testud then moved all in for about 40,000 total and Esfandiari made the call.
Testud held , but was dominated by Antonio's .
The board ran out to eliminate Testud from the tournament. Esfandiari moved up to 196,000 chips on the hand. This was also his second elimination of an opponent since returning from the dinner break.
The action on the hand was unknown as we arrived with only the final board and Peter Feldman's cards displayed on the table while the dealer was counting down Feldman's chips to give the other player a count. Feldman held on a board of to make a flush.
Two players were all in against Karga Holt with the final board reading . Holt held pocket deuces, , Tony "Bond18" Dunst held , and the third player held .
The player with pocket sevens was able to triple up, while Dunst was eliminated on the hand.
We've been sweating Mike Caro on and off throughout the day, trying to get a hand on the Mad Genius. His chip count has remained mostly the same throughout the day.
While sweating Caro we did overhear an interesting conversation between Kathy Liebert and Peter "Nordberg" Feldman. Feldman asked Liebert if she remembered when he called the clock on her at the Borgata.
"I knew I didn't like you," said Liebert, "but I couldn't remember why."
"Nice of you to remind her," added Joe McGowan.
A few hands later, Mike Caro and Praz Bansi got in a staring contest. Caro remarked that he would get a lot more out of the staring contest than Bansi would.
No, it's not another episode of everyone's favorite game, Lodden Thinks. But it is a hand that involves Lodden. Isaac Baron opened for 7,500 in front of Lodden, who reraised all in for 45,000 from the cutoff. The big blind called all in for 27,000, folding Baron. It was a race, for Lodden against the big blind's pocket sevens. An ace on the flop held up for Lodden to increase his count to 85,000.
Karga Holt raised and Michael Katz reraised before David Bornstein called and was all in. Holt also made the call. The flop came down . and Holt checked. Katz checked behind.
The turn brought the with both Holt and Katz checking again. The river was the and Holt check-folded to a bet of 16,000 from Katz. After Holt folded, Katz looked up and said "I have an ace."
Bornstein looked dejected and flung over his cracked pocket queens before exiting to the rail.
Karga Holt fired a raise to 7,600. Two players made the call, including Michael Katz. The flop came down . The first player checked, then Holt fired 11,000. Katz scurried off while the other player called.
The turn brought the and the first player checked again to Holt. Holt fired a bet, but this time he was met with a check-raise all in by his opponent. Holt made the call with . His opponent held . The river blanked off, allowing Holt's opponent to double up. Holt is now down to 150,000 chips.