Donnie Peters
Tommy Vedes raised to 58,000 from the cutoff. Bernhard Perner called from the button and then Nichoel Peppe called from the small blind.
The flop came down . Peppe checked and Vedes fired 230,000. Perner folded and then Peppe exercised her muscle with a check-raise to 759,000. She was all in with this bet. Vedes took his time and then mucked his hand.
Peppe moved herself up to 1.2 million on the hand. The other woman at the table, Leo Margets, is sitting with 580,000.
We're not sure what the preflop action was in a hand between Ian Tavelli and Warren Zackey. What we do know is that on a flop of , Tavelli managed to get his last 950,000 in the middle. Zackey, the chip leader at the time with more than 5 million chips, had chips to burn and called with an overpair and gutshot draw, . Tavelli also had an overpair -- the biggest overpair, . Tavelli's aces held up when the turn paired sixes, and the river blanked .
With that loss, Zackey fell out of the number one chip spot. He now has 3.95 million chips. Tavelli is up to 2.4 million.
Donnie Peters
There were a few raises and reraises over at table 22 between Blair Hinkle and Ryan Fair to get all of the money in preflop. Hinkle had Fair covered by 33,000 chips.
Hinkle held and Fair held .
The board ran out and Hinkle was left with just 33,000 chips. Fair moved up to 2.2 million.
Donnie Peters
Just moments after being crippled down to 33,000, Blair Hinkle was all in holding . Hac "Trex313" Dang made the call with . The board ran out , busting Hinkle from the tournament.
Anh Van Nguyen opened the pot with a raise to 45,000 from early position. Both Steven Begleiter and Bradley Craig came along to a three-handed flop that brought . Craig checked first to act, and Nguyen continued out with another 75,000 chips. This time, Begleiter was the only caller as Craig ducked out of the way.
The turn card came the , and Nguyen checked this time. Begleiter slid 175,000 into the middle, and Nguyen came right along. The last card off the deck was the . Begleiter loaded 500,000 chips into his cannon and fired away. Nguyen again made the call, and Begleiter tabled . The other hand went into the muck and the pot goes to the set of deuces.
Hieu Luu has been very, very active at his table. It seemed like it was only a matter of time before someone else at the table decided to look him up.
It turns out that other player was Craig Boyd. With 300,000 chips in the pot, Boyd bet 95,000 on the turn of a board that showed . Luu made a large raise of that bet to 420,000. Boyd called to see the river pair queens, . He checked, prompting Luu to shove all in.
The effective bet back to Boyd was his whole stack, 993,000. He thought it over for a moment, then called with , queens and sevens.
"Good call," said Luu. His was nothing but a stone bluff. That pot gave Boyd 3 million chips while knocking Luu back to 1.3 million.
Donnie Peters
Owen Crowe and Theo Tran found all of the money in the middle preflop. Crowe held two jacks, , against Tran's . Tran was all in for 250,000 chips.
. Peppe checked and Vedes fired 230,000. Perner folded and then Peppe exercised her muscle with a check-raise to 759,000. She was all in with this bet. Vedes took his time and then mucked his hand.
, Mark Abrantes decided it was time to commit the last of his stack with 
. Unfortunately he was up against Nick Maimone's 
.
and the river the 
, and Abrantes is out. Maimone is up to 1.84 million.
, Tavelli managed to get his last 950,000 in the middle. Zackey, the chip leader at the time with more than 5 million chips, had chips to burn and called with an overpair and gutshot draw, 
. Tavelli also had an overpair -- the biggest overpair, 
and the river blanked 
and Hinkle was left with just 33,000 chips. Fair moved up to 2.2 million.
, Coulthard flopping a set to double up to 1.32 million. Brecard was left with 815,000.
, busting Hinkle from the tournament.
. Craig checked first to act, and Nguyen continued out with another 75,000 chips. This time, Begleiter was the only caller as Craig ducked out of the way.
, and Nguyen checked this time. Begleiter slid 175,000 into the middle, and Nguyen came right along. The last card off the deck was the 
. The other hand went into the muck and the pot goes to the set of deuces.
. Routos had 
-- a flush draw and the open-ender. His opponent, Tian Shou, had 
, against Tran's 
. Tran was all in for 250,000 chips.
