Vivek Rajkumar has been splashing around a lot lately, so it was natural that when he re-raised from the small blind following a late position raise, that the player in the big blind looked down at and decided it was the best hand.
The big blind moved all in for 28,000, the late position player folded, but Rajkumar snap-called with his .
However the board favored the brave, as it fell to give the BB player a pair of aces and the apologetic double up.
Stephen 'Delegator' Kjaestad has been knocked out after getting all in preflop with but ran into and diastrous flop was not followed by two aces, but by a and turn and river.
Donnie Peters
Upon rolling up to table 103 in the red section, Greg Raymer was hanging out chatting with Lou Diamond Phillips, Scott Seiver, and a few of the other players. Here's some of the quotes from the area.
Player - "Greg! Greg! You know what I wanna do? I wanna sit at the feature table with you, but have Hellmuth sandwiched between us. We can just jam it in and piss him off and then turn around and say things to his wife."
Raymer - "I'd just shove on Hellmuth because he doesn't want to get in with a flip."
Seiver - "Yeah, but there's the extra EV of sending Hellmuth on tilt."
Raymer - "I run so bad in the Main Event."
Joe Sebok - "Wow, this is where the party is. Even Raymer is here, this must be the jump off!"
Photographer - "I'm only shooting world champs, movie stars, and big boobs."
With the pot about 50,000, Andy "Little Big Chip" Fields pushed his entire stack all in -- about 68,000 -- on a board of , sending his opponent, Will Kassouf, into the tank.
Finally Kassouf emerged and folded, showing a queen as he did. Fields then showed his hand -- .
All good for Kirk
Three players saw a limped flop of ; including Kirk Morrison out of the small blind.
The action was checked round to see the fall on the turn and a bet of 1,500 from Morrison follow. The big blind passed, but the limper on the button made the call to see the river of the land.
Morrison checked to his opponent who opted with a bet of 3,100.
"Do you want me to call?" asked Morrison before continuing with, "do you have a Jack?"
"Can you beat a Jack?" asked his opponent.
"No" quipped Morrison before stating, "ahhh, allright I call"
Morrison turned over his for a lowly pair of sixes, but after his opponent mucked, Morrison raked in the pot to climb to over 145,000 in chips.
Donnie Peters
One player checked the flop of to Scott Seiver. Seiver bet out 5,200 before Lou Diamond Phillips called from the button. The first player then tank-folded.
The turn brought the and Seiver checked. Phillips bet out 15,000 and Seiver folded. Phillips showed only the and then turned to Greg Raymer and pounded fists while Raymer congratulated him on the pot.
Ylon Schwartz Eliminated
It's going to be very difficult for Ylon Schwartz to replicate his final table heroics from last year's WSOP Main Event, as he now finds himself headed to the rail after a clash with Bill Gazes.
Schwartz held pocket kings with all the chips in preflop against the ace-king of Gazes.
However, the board was spread and Gazes hit his ace to eliminate Schwartz from the tournament.