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There had already been a bring in, a call, and a completion by the time perma-short stack Marco Traniello raised with a queen up. The whole table gave him the respect of a fold, and he stays in for the moment on an extremely precarious 6,000.
Latest casualties out on the floor:
Jerry Brakel and Zachary Sheline.
Pat Pezzin has taken a bit of a hit, bumping up David Shapiro's stack in the process.
Shapiro with an ace up bet out on every street. James Kadlec and Mark Dickstein gave it up on fifth and fourth streets respectively; Pezzin lasted until sixth before folding. Just before Shapiro raked in the chunky pot, the cards looked like so:
Shapiro: (XX)/ 
Kadlec: (XX) / 
- fold
Dickstein: (XX) / 
- fold
Pezzin: (XX) / 
- fold
After that little encounter, Shapiro was up to 44,000 while Pezzin was down to 47,000.
The short-stacked Rod Pardey has found a double up to stay alive in this tournament. Pardey was all in on third street with Peter Klaus-Stohner making the call.
Pardey: (
) / 
/ ()
Klaus-Stohner: (
) / 
/ (
)
Pardey made aces up to better the two pair of Klaus-Stohner and double up to 3,000. It's merely a scratch on the surface for Klaus-Stohner who is still well placed with 54,000.
James Laird: 
/ 
Jon Turner: (XXX) / 
We picked up the action on fifth street with Jon Turner check-calling a bet from James Laird; he check-called again on sixth, and, indeed on seventh.
They went to showdown and Laird turned over the tiniest flush with the . It was presumably good enough, as Turner mucked and dipped to 60,000, still good enough for top three in the chip counts at this time. Laird meanwhile is heading into serious big stack territory on 71,000 - only our chip leader Dan Heimiller has more.
Christine Pietsch and Scott Seiver have been exchanging some words since earlier in the day when there was some confusion as to whether Pietsch had completed or simply called the bring-in when she threw out a single chip.
Seiver wasn't happy and his mood hasn't improved after there was some more confusion at showdown in the following hand.
Catching it on fifth street, Seiver bet out with aces showing and Pietsch made the call, and then called again on sixth. Both players checked it down on the river.
Seiver: (XX) / 
/ (X)
Pietsch: (
) / 
/ ()
The confusion arose when Pietsch thought she only had a pair of queens, which would've left Seiver's aces in front, but when she flipped he cards she didn't realize that the five on the river improved her to two pair for the winning hand.
"F**king perfect..." grunted Seiver who is now clearly steaming. He's down to 27,000 with Pietsch up to 34,000.
Level: 12
Blinds: 0/0
Ante: 0
Our eagle-eyed reporter on the floor just noticed that we had yet to lose a player today from table 316 which is one of the feature tables here in the Amazon Room. No sooner than he had spoken and Christopher Barnes was sent packing by Marco Traniello.
Barnes was all in by fifth street and his chips never returned as Traniello has fought back well from the short stack to now sit with around 15,000 chips.
There was some dissent on the floor, but it was quickly beaten down.
Pretty much a whole table - David Blatte, Said Elsanafiri, Erich Kollmann, Barbara Lewis, Hani Awad and Alex Kravchenko - all attempted to boycott the tournament owing to how incredibly cold it was at their table. Everyone except Lewis Lipsey refused to put their antes in, until the TD came over and told them they had to. It's a freezeout, after all.
BREAKING NEWS
Power to the people! The whole table has now been moved to somewhere a little further away from the air con vents. It was a brave TD who messed with Alex Kravchenko anyway, in our opinion.
Over at the next table, which is equally cold, players started to grumble.
Player 1: "Apparently we're not complaining enough."
Player 2, wearing an enormous parka jacket: "I'm fine."
Player 1: "Well you would be, you look like you're about to climb Everest. Hey can I buy that off you?"
Mark Dickstein and Jim Geary started off on a similar note with both holding kings in the hole but it was Geary's kicker that was enough to scoop the pot as neither could make it to two pair.
Geary: () / 
/ ()
Dickstein: (
) / 
/ ()
Geary led the betting and took it down to move up to 24,000 with Dickstein back down to 5,000.
