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Dana Kellstrom is up to 60,000 after finding himself in a nice spot with pocket kings against pocket eights preflop. The board ran out a bunch of blanks to propel Kellstrom up the leader board.
Mr. Kellstrom would also like to pass on a proverbial shout out to the Cigar Store, wherever its denizens may be.
Joe Sebok, now officially in short stack territory, has pushed preflop no fewer than three times, but has yet to get a caller. Each time he picked up the blinds and antes, but he's still woefully short on just 14,000.
An unfortunate player got his whole 40,000 stack in preflop with pocket queens, and so we imagine that he was horrified to find himself up against Jordan Morgan's pocket kings.
The board ran out a completely unhelpful 
, and Mr. Queens became the latest casualty in the Amazon Room.
Morgan, on the other hand, is now one of our big stacks on around 120,000.
From what we can see Nancy Todd Tyner is leading the pack right now after eliminating an opponent at her table.
The two got all the money in the middle preflop and the Todd Tyner was slightly ahead:
Todd Tyner: 
Opponent: 
The ace on the 
flop pushed Todd Tyner ahead and the 
turn and 
river sealed the deal. With that knockout she is now sporting a 170,000 chip stack.
The Hypothesis
Justin Young busted.
The Evidence
Justin Young was seen standing behind his former chair, looking down at no chips.
The Conclusion
It's a trip to the payout desk and a $2,150 payday for Young.
Just moments after hitting a big flop, Cyriel Dohmen was forced to fold a big hand on the flop.
With the board reading 
, Dohmen was faced with an all-in bet of 50,000 chips. After sitting in the tank for quite some time he finally folded two queens.
Whether or not it was a good fold we don't know, but we do know that his stack slipped to 80,000 chips.
We only the very tail end of this three-way showdown, but by the timbre of the "Oooh!"s on the river, our guess would be that the chips all went in preflop.
Lisa Parsons: 
Player 2: 
Allan Faure: 
Board: 
Parsons busted out, Player 2 was left with mere shrapnel, and Faure picked up a chunky pot to put him up to a shade under 40,000.
Cyriel "supa4real" Dohmen is now above 100,000 chips thanks to fortuitous flop.
An opponent at his table moved all-in from middle position and Dohmen called in the big blind with 
. His opponent had him dominated with 
, but the 
flop changed that quickly.
The 
on the turn made it a good sweat, but the 
on the river was a brick sending Dohmen's opponent to the rail.
You remember our big stacks at the start of the day? We have not forgotten them.
They've had a mixed sort of day, but none of them are in any particular trouble so far.
On the Up
Nancy Todd Tyner - over 150,00
Terry Fleischer - 130,000
A Little Down
Braxton Dunaway - 80,000
TJ Boytor - 75,000
Thomas Joanides - 70,000
Joe Elpayaa - 70,000
Minneapolis Jim Meehan was all-in preflop holding against an opponent's .
The flop gave his opponent a pair and after a blank (
) on the turn, the river brought another jack, the , crippling Meehan to just 700 chips.
The next hand Minneapolis Jim tossed his last 700 in from under the gun, a player in middle position isolated to 2,400 and the big blind called. The two checked every street and the board ran 
.
Meehan showed 
for top pair, but the player in middle position tabled 
for a rivered four flush eliminating Minneapolis Jim from the tournament.
