We found David Blatte betting out on fifth street. Alex Kravchenko dwelled up for a while and then made the call.
Blatte bet out again on sixth street, and this time Kravchenko called rather more quickly.
On seventh, though, Blatte just checked. Kravchenko thought about it for a while before checking behind, and then mucked to Blatte's mere pair of nines.
Erich Kollmann bet out on fifth street, as you do when you've got a pair of kings showing. Alex Kravchenko made the call.
On sixth street Kollmann checked and then called a bet from Kravchenko. They both checked seventh street before Kravchenko revealed a rolled-up set of sixes, eliciting a swift muck from Kollmann.
Pat Pezzin is up to 95,000 chips after eliminating Jean Gaspard in a big three-way pot that also included Chip Jett.
Catching the action on fifth street, Jett led out with a bet showing the best hand before Gaspard raised all in. Pezzin cold-called and Jett came along. The two live players checked sixth before Pezzin bet on seventh to force a fold from Jett.
Jett: (XXX) /
Gaspard: () /
Pezzin: () /
Gaspard showed a set of nines but Pezzin had made an ace-high flush on the river to take it down and eliminate Gaspard from the tournament.
Peter Klaus-Stohner and Richard Ashby have tangled in a pot with Ashby leading the betting on fourth and fifth streets, before check-calling on both sixth and seventh.
Ashby: (XXX) /
Klaus-Stohner: () /
Spades everywhere for Klaus-Stohner as Ashby's cards hit the muck. He's still amongst the leaders with 98,000 as Klaus-Stohner climbs to 57,000.
A fair few chips had found their way into the pot by fourth street, when Jon Turner bet out. Philip Collins made the call. However, when Turner bet again on sixth, Collins just folded, flashing at Turner.
Raymond Walter bet out on third and fourth streets and Sorel Mizzi called; on fifth street, with a pair of jacks up, Mizzi led the betting and Walter just called. On sixth Walter was again first to act with a pair of aces now showing, and Mizzi called; on seventh street Walter bet out again, actually before he'd looked at his last card, and once more Mizzi made the call.
The very confident Walter turned over two pair, aces and eights, to put him up to 88,000. Mizzi mucked and dropped to 40,000.
James Laird: (XXX) /
Jon Turner: (XXX) / - fold
Sorel Mizzi: (XXX) /
James Laird bet out on third and fourth streets and both Jon Turner and Sorel Mizzi called; on fifth street Sorel Mizzi was first to act and he bet out. Laird called and Turner gave it up.
Mizzi bet out again on sixth street and Laird called once more, but the seventh street bet from Mizzi was too much for Laird and he finally folded.
Richard Ashby: (X) /
Glenn Engelbert: (XX) where one of the unknown cards was also a club /
In what was a very small pot by this point, Richard Ashby bet out on sixth street and Glenn Engelbert raised; Ashby called. Then they both checked seventh street.
Engelbert turned over an ace-high flush. Ashby turned over a full house.
"I cannot believe that went check-check," said tablemate Scott Seiver.
"I have kings up and I catch the flush and I still lose," lamented Engelbert, who was presumably rather relieved they had both checked the river.
Current standings - Engelbert down to 9,000, Ashby now chip leader on 115,000.
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