A player under the gun raised to 600, the player next to act reraised to 2,200, and the button called. Then Thomas Keller made it 11,200 from the small blind.
The original raiser tanked a bit, then folded. His neighbor also considered the situation a while before letting his hand go, too. The player on the button then reraised all in for 17,675 total, and Keller made the call.
Keller showed and his opponent . The board came , and Keller won the hand.
Keller's opponent, having been eliminated, left the table. Meanwhile, discussion of the hand continued. The first raiser noted he'd had pocket jacks, too. The second player to have abandoned the hand said he'd folded pocket tens -- he would've flopped a set. Keller is now up to just over 80,000.
No Svet
2008 Ladies Event champion Svetlanan Gromenkova could not recover from her short stackage, and ducked out of the tournament a little while ago.
Donnie Peters
Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy
On a flop of , the first player bet 1,850 and then the next player raised to 7,000 from middle position. Cliff "JohnnyBax" Josephy called from the cutoff seat and the first player that made the first bet folded.
Heads up to the turn, the dealer added the to the board. Both the remaining players checked.
The river was the and action checked to Josephy. He fired a nice bet of 13,500 and his opponent called rather quickly. Josephy showed and his opponent angrily mucked two red kings.
Ivan Demidov - Eliminated
After a button raise of 1,200, small blind Ivan Demidov raised to 5,450 (only leaving 225 behind). ChipMeUp player Dwayne Stacey called from the big blind and the button folded.
The flop came . Demidov would put his last 225 into the pot and was called by Stacey.
Demidov showed but was in big trouble when Stacey tabled his . Ivan would need two running hearts or straight cards to win. The turn brought the leaving Demidov drawing dead. River was the .
Meanwhile, Dwayne Stacey is sitting on a healthy stack of 82,000.
Ryan Young opened the action with a raise from middle position to 750 and picked up four callers including Glen Chorny in the cutoff.
The flop was and the action checked around cautiously. The turn was a repeat and again action checked to Chorny who took a stab at the pot with a 2,400-chip bet. The table folded around and Chorny picks up a nice orphaned pot.
Chorny is in an elite group of players to have won more than $2 million in a live event, with his victory in the EPT grand final in 2007 where Chorny collected Euros worth over $2.6 million.
Since that time Chorny has struggled to replicate that success and surprisingly only has one WSOP cash to his credit. He's looking for the Main Event to be WSOP cash #2.
Donnie Peters
Craig Hartman just let us know about a recent big hand that went down on his table that he was involved in.
A player raised to 1,100 and Hartman made the call out of the big blind. The flop came down rainbow and Hartman fired 2,000. His opponent called.
The turn was a and Hartman checked. His opponent bet 3,000. Hartman check-raised to 8,000 and was called.
The river was the and Hartman fired 8,000. His opponent called, but mucked when Hartman showed him pocket tens for top set on the flop. Hartman now has 82,000.
A few hours ago Mads Wissing was all in holding to an opponent's on a board reading .
With Wissing at risk, he would see the case five fall on the river to see him take the lead with rivered quads.
Now into the second last level of the night, Wissing is the tournament chip leader with roughly 188,000 in chips.
It's a funny thing how just one lucky river can change a players path during the Main Event, and in this case, its obvious that Wissing is making the most of an opportunity that easily could have not been his!
both Shannon Elizabeth and her opponent checked to see the 
fall on the turn.
on the river.
, but it wouldn't be able to best her opponent's 
for a flopped set of trips.
and his opponent 
. The board came 
to the board. Both the remaining players checked.
and action checked to Josephy. He fired a nice bet of 13,500 and his opponent called rather quickly. Josephy showed 
, Duncan 'Pumper' Bell was facing a 20,000 bet on the river which represented most of his chips.
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but was in big trouble when Stacey tabled his 
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rainbow and Hartman fired 2,000. His opponent called.
and Hartman checked. His opponent bet 3,000. Hartman check-raised to 8,000 and was called.
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