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Jonathan Duhamel and Samuel Gerber went to war pre-flop, with Duhamel winding up all in. He showed down 
and ran smack into Gerber's 
. The tables were turned after a flop of 
made two pair for Duhamel. He improved to a full house with the 
turn, but the river fell one of the two remaining aces, 
, to give Gerber a bigger full house.
"That's too much," he said.
Duhamel probably agreed. He moved off to collect his payout while Gerber moved on in the tournament.
For many players at this stage of the tournament, all it takes is one pot that goes the wrong way to really de-rail things. David Sands and Kevin Iacofino played one of those pots, with Sands taking the worst of it. Iacofino was all in with 
; Sands barely had him covered with 
. Jacks held to boost Iacofino to 256,000. Sands has just 30,000. He'll need to make a move soon.
When you hold 
, your opponent holds 
, and the flop comes 
, you're probably going broke -- especially in a six-handed tournament. Tim Adams as the player with ace-deuce; Michael Meyers was the player with ace-nine. Nothing changed by the time the river card was on board.
That hand crippled Adams. Although he survived two more all-ins, he did bust a short time later. Meyers, meanwhile, is up to 385,000.
After a very rocky start, it's been a good stretch of post-dinner cards for Mark Seif. He first doubled up against Dash Dudley when his 
out-flipped Dudley's pocket nines by catching a queen on the turn. The pot gave Seif a closer-to-average stack with about 135,000.
"I guess we decided to play some big pots after dinner," remarked David Sands.
Sands won't have to worry about playing any of those pots. He became Seif's victim a short time later as Seif climbed back to 200,000.
The flop was 
and Dorlan Schick bet 10,000. Milad Jorshari, raised to 35,000 and Schick moved all in for 120,300. Jorshari called and looked confident until Schick showed . Jorshari flipped over 
for an inferior overpair. The turn and river brought no help for Jorshari and Schick doubled up.
Jorshari is left with 146,000 while Schick is up to 290,000.
Take a look at these.
Matthew Mercurio, Chris Bjorin and Jorge Arias have all recently been eliminated. Arias got his money in with flopped trips but his opponent made a running spade flush.
Level: 16
Blinds: 2,000/4,000
Ante: 500
It took a day and a half, by the pace of the tournament has finally started to slow down. In the 80 minutes since we came back from dinner we've only lost 11 players, or 20% of the remaining field. That may seem like a lot, but when you consider that this tournament burst the money bubble late last night on Day 1, it seems pokey by comparison. Part of it is no doubt a function of evenly spread chips; part of it is that as we get deeper into the money the stakes go up; and part of is (no doubt) that the six-handed players that have survived this long may be less prone to shove all the chips in pre-flop than the players who busted out already.
Whatever the reason, with 7 tables left we're definitely slowing down. Will we get down to a final table in the next four-and-a-half levels? Time will tell.
Dash Dudley shoved his short stack with 
. Darren Wong decided to take a flip and looked Dudley up with presto, pocket fives. Presto was good on a board of 
. That was all she wrote for Dudley. Wong, meanwhile, still has work to do with a stack of about 120,000.
