Nicholas Derke was in the hijack when he raised, prompting a re-raise from Williams. The button and blinds folded around to Derke, who made the call.
The flop came down with Derke checking, only to raise Williams' bet. When the fell on the turn, Derke led out with a bet, and called a raise from Williams. The river was and Derke opted to check, later calling one last bet from Williams.
We arrived just in time to see Team PokerStars Pro Chad Brown mucking to Frank Kassela's full house on a board. This left Brown with just 900 in chips, of which 300 went in as the small blind the next hand. He folded.
So it was that Brown, now reduced to 600, just called all in from the button with . The small blind folded, the big blind flipped , and the board was dealt.
Board:
Brown doubled to 1,500, but that went in before the flop of the next hand, and this time Brown would not be so fortunate.
Brown:
Craig Repoz:
Board:
With the exit of Brown, it looks as though Barry Greenstein is the one remaining hope for Team PokerStars in this event - he's on a roughly average 17,000 right now.
Shawn Buchanan raised from the button and both Steven Werdehoff and Edward Nassif called in the blinds. Three-way, they saw a flop.
Flop:
Werdehoff bet out and Nassif called. Buchanan flatt-called too, and they continued to the turn.
Turn:
Werdehoff and Nassif now both checked to Buchanan, who bet. Werdehoff called, Nassif gave it up, and they were heads up to the river.
River:
Werdehoff checked-called another bet from Buchanan, but couldn't beat the for two pair that Buchanan tabled. Werdehoff mucked, and Buchanan bumped his stack up to 30,000.
Phil Ivey raised from the hijack and found himself facing a reraise from the gentleman on the button. He called, and they saw a flop which both players checked.
Ivey turned up the aggression and bet out on the turn and river, but the button called both streets and turned over . Whatever Ivey had he couldn't beat it, and once he had mucked, Ivey was down to 19,000.
In the time it took us to report on Ted Forrest finding himself in a short-stacked position, he has been eliminated. We didn't catch all the action, but we do know that his was unable to improve against his opponent's .
Forrest has five WSOP bracelets, an NBC heads-up title, and a World Poker Tour win under his belt, but he'll have to wait a little while longer before winning his next bracelet.