Jim Geary: 
/ 
/ 
Pat Pezzin: 
/ 
/ 
Jim Geary bet out on third street and Pat Pezzin called; he bet out again on fourth and this time Pezzin raised. Geary made the call.
Geary bet out again on fifth street and Pezzin raised again. Geary called all in, and his two pair by the end was no good against the set of sevens that Pezzin was sitting on.
Geary - busto
Pezzin - huge chip leader on 155,000
Philip Collins had his last chips committed on fifth street in a three-way pot against Steven Albini and Raymond Walter.
Walter: (
) / 
Collins: (XXX) / 
Albini: (X) / 
Albini is hitting some cards as he made a full house to eliminate Collins from the tournament in 35th place.
Richard Ashby: (XX) / 
- fold
James Laird - 
flashed / 
Richard Ashby bet third street and called the raise from James Laird. Thereafter Laird led the action, and he bet out on every street. Ashby called him all the way down to sixth, when he folded instead.
Laird flashed him down for a full house.
Ashby - down to 83,000
Laird: up to 76,000
The following players have been recently eliminated and will each take home $2,985 for their efforts in this tournament:
33rd Chip Jett
34th James Geary
35th Philip Collins
36th Edward Nilosek
37th Rod Pardey
38th Rodeen Talebi
39th Alexander Dovzhenko
40th James Maguire
Erich Kollmann is on the rail after he was all in on third street against Alex Kravchenko and Said Elsanafiri. The two live players checked on the side until sixth street when Elsanafiri fired a bet and Kravchenko raised. Elsanafiri made the call and then again on the river.
Kollmann: (
X) / 
Elsanafiri: (
X) / 
Kravchenko: (
) / 
Kravchenko made a nine-high straight to take it down and move up to 77,000.
Since we went to four tables, the action has somewhat slowed - presumably our remaining runners will now have their eyes on the very real possibility of a WSOP final table.
Nevertheless, the limits are large and some of the stacks are very small, and the combination of these two factors means that we'll be seeing a few more eliminations before long.
Scott Seiver completed with the before Darren Shebell raised his 
. Steven Albini made the call with his and Seiver came along.
On fourth Albini led with both opponents calling, before Shebell paired up and led on fifth. Albini called and Seiver folded. On sixth and seventh Shebell check-called.
Seiver: (XX) / 
Shebell: (
) / 
/ (X)
Albini: (
) / /
Shebell made a reluctant call on the river with two pair but once again Albini had the goods as he takes it down to move up to 76,000. Shebell slips to 65,000.
It's time to spend another 20 minutes milling around in the Rio hallways.
Back shortly.
Level: 15
Blinds: /
Ante:
29 players remain, and we're not going to call it a night until we're down to eight. Or 3am. Whichever comes first.
Either way, cards are back in the air.
