Kevin "BeL0WaB0Ve" Saul
After a series of preflop raises, Brian Shapiro was all in from late position against Kevin "BeL0WaB0Ve" Saul from the small blind.
Saul:
Shapiro:
With ESPN recording the hand, Shapiro felt the need to ham it up for the camera's, standing from the table and screaming "Please don't put a king, please, please don't put a king"
Flop: giving Saul his set.
Shapiro got his backpack on and prepared to leave, however he got a glimmer of hope when the landed on the felt.
The river then brought the giving Shapiro runner-runner straight to stay alive.
Several "Whooo's" came screaming from the mouth of Shapiro. After the string of excessive celebratory exclamations, Shapiro stuck an index finger in Saul's direction and proclaimed "Do that to me one more time...double me up again! Whooo!"
Saul sat staring at Shapiro in silent disbelief of the act of unsportsmanlike conduct.
Tournament director Jack Effel came over to the table and offered Shapiro a stern warning and a one hand penalty.
Chip counts after the hand:
Brian Shapiro: 167,500
Kevin Saul: 685,000
Ladies and gentlemen, we have now dropped below the 700 runner mark.
Only 648 places pay, though, so there are going to be around 50 sad souls leaving the Amazon Room with nothing but bitter regret before the day is out...
Terry Ellingson came so close to cashing in the Main Event. But in the event, he was short-stacked and forced to make a stand preflop with . Kevin McCarthy woke up with pocket kings, . Ellingson didn't even come close to a board of and as a result has been retired from the tournament.
John Monnette raised to 10,500 and Ed Perry made the call before Michael Kinney put in the squeeze and made it 40,000 to go from the big blond.
The action was then back with Monnette who announced another raise to 150,000. Both opponents folded and Monnette rakes in another nice pot. He's not up to 490,000 chips.
Dana Karlson was all in for about 60,000 before the flop, and both Dan Harrington and Paren Arzoomanian came along to put Karlson at risk.
The flop rolled out . Arzoomanian checked, and he would fold to a bet of 60,000 from Harrington. Action Dan tabled , and Karlson was in a bad way with . The on the turn left Karlson drawing dead, and the meaningless filled out the board.
With that, Karlson is out, and Harrington has climbed to 460,000.