Eli Elezra opened for a raise from late position and Kirk Morrison called from the big blind. Elezra drew one card while Morrison took tow. Morrison checked, Elezra bet and Morrison called. Elezra rapped pat on the second draw while Morrison again took one. Morrison checked, Elezra bet, Morrison raised, Elezra made it three bets to go and Morrison called. Both players stood pat on the third draw, Morrison check-calling one more bet.
Elezra showed 7-5-4-3-2 for the wheel and won the pot, increasing his stack to 320,000
Team PokerStars Pro Noah Boeken has been eliminated from the tournament. His demise came in a three-way Stud hand against Matt Glantz and Erik Seidel. Catching the action on the river, Seidel fired a bet into a side pot to force a fold from Glantz as Boeken was already all in.
Boeken: (X-X-X)
Seidel: ()
Glantz: (X-X-X)
A full house for Seidel was too good as he moved back up to 300,000, as Boeken was left to slow walk his way to the nearest Amazon Room exit, perhaps on his way to play the PokerStars Sunday majors?
Brett Richey completed with a 6 up, Justin Smith raised all-in showing a 9 and John Juanda reraised with a 7. Richey folded and the cards went on their backs.
Smith ended up with an 8-6 low, no match for Juanda's 7-5-3-2-A and hit the rail. Juanda is up to 680,000.
Nikolay Evdakov raised it up from early position before Robert Mizrachi put in the re-raise. Scott Seiver cold-called from the cutoff and Evdakov came along to see a flop of .
Evdakov checked and Mizrachi fired out a bet. Seiver announced a raise but Evdakov made it three bets to play. Both opponents made the call to see the hit the turn.
Check, check and Seiver fired out a bet. Again both Evdakov and Mizrachi made the call. The river was the and all three players checked it down.
Mizrachi opened for the rivered straight to scoop the nice pot. He's up to 755,000, Seiver is at 480,000 with Evdakov sinking to 210,000.
Vladimir Schmelev opened the action with a raise to 15,000 from middle position. Matt Glantz made the call and Erik Seidel joined in from the small blind.
The players checked through to the river on the board where Seidel decided to casually toss out another 15,000. Schmelev decided to pay to see as Glantz released his cards. Seidel revealed for a straight to pad his stack with some more chips.
After struggling on the short stack for the last level, Scott Clements committed the rest of his chips on third street against Robert Mizrachi. Mizrachi made a king-high straight on fifth street and Clements missed his flush draw. He hit the rail while Mizrachi is up to 810,000.