Marla Schwartz has hit the rail, her pocket no good at all against Pat O'Malley's . A jack on the turn gave Schwartz straight outs, but she rivered only dust and is busto.
The remaining players are, of course, all in the money, and they owe their upcoming paychecks to one man in particular. In the middle of the day yesterday, the money bubble arrived and lingered for quite while. Kia Hamadani decided he'd put a stop to it, getting all in for his ante of 500 chips and bursting the bubble for the rest of the field. Melissa Castello caught up with everyone's hero shortly thereafter:
David Levi was all in for 29,000. Michael Cassela called in a later position, but folded after Clayton Newman reraised all in. Levi had and was racing against with Newman. This time Newman held .
The flop ran out and things got grimmer for Levi. he did pick up a gutshot though. The turn brought the , nailing Levi's gutshot straight and giving him the best hand. It looked as if he was going to double, but just as the dealer giveth, the dealer taketh away with the on the river. Newman's boat was good enough to bust Levi from the tournament and put him up to 380,000.
Ludovic Lacay just had a slice of luck to knock out Dave Whalen. Lacay held against Whalen's but the board came and Lacay made two pair to Whalen's one.
The Frenchman has the chip lead in his sights once more.
With heads-up action, the board ran down . Jarrod Holmes was all in on the turn with , and Mark Fisher called him down, tabling . When Holmes got it in, he was already drawing dead, and he's been sent to the exit here early in Day 5.
Abraham Mourshaki raised to 23,000 from middle position before John Martin reraised to 60,000 from the cutoff seat. Dan Shak then four-bet to 260,000. Both his opponents folded and Shak showed pocket aces, moving up to 445,000.