It folded around to Jeff Cohen in the small blind, who announced all in for just about 10 big blinds. In the big blind, Alexander Queen tanked up for some time. We rather feel for Queen - he seems to have spent an awful lot of the day with one short stack or another to his right, attempting to steal his blinds. After a while he made the call.
It was a good call.
Queen:
Cohen: dominated with
Board: bink!
Cohen's pair of fours was good enough to double him up to 540,000. Queen was left with 450,000.
From middle position, Billy Griner opened the pot with a 80,000-chip raise. William Kakon re-popped it to 250,000 in the big blind. Griner moved all in and Kakon tanked.
The clock was called and in the last second, Kakon folded pocket tens face up.
Griner tabled and took the pot. Kakon slipped to 600,000 chips and Griner moved up to 1,100,000.
Jason Hallee opened for around 60,000 under the gun and the action moved on to Neil Channing, who asked Hallee how much he was playing (answer - 460,000 behind). He thought about it for a while and then re-popped to 167,000. It folded right back around to Hallee, and he quickly folded too, leaving himself the shortest stack at the chipped-up feature table.
When we arrived at the table the board read . William Kakon and Jeff Cohen were head's-up and they both checked.
The turn card was a and once more, both players checked. The river brought a to the table, and Kakon fired a 130,000-chip bet. Cohen snapped and tabled .
Kakon punched the table and slipped to 400,000 chips. Cohen is now up to 800,000.
William Kakon raised and it folded around to Jeff Cohen who took his time but eventually made the call.
They saw a flop, which Cohen checked. Back to Kakon, who announced all in for 310,00 - although seeing as it was largely in yellow 1,000-denomination chips, it looked like a lot more to the untrained eye. Either way, Cohen insta-folded, and both players were at 600,000 after the hand - although they were moving in opposite directions.
Curiousness at the outer table and it folded around to David Wilkinson in the small blind, who limped. Billy Griner in the big blind raised to 175,000 and, thinking that Wilkinson had folded as he couldn't see any cards, turned his hand over - .
Problem with this was, Wilkinson still had cards - they were just under his hand.
The floor was called, and it was ruled that rather than the 175,000 that Griner had actually raised, the bet would only be a minimum raise to 60,000. Wilkinson was permitted to act, and Griner would be issued with a one round penalty at the end of the hand.
Wilkinson called, and they checked down the board. Wilkinson mucked at the end of the hand, and once Griner had raked in the pot he headed off to spend a round at the rail. Most unusual.
There has been some discussion of perhaps turning this into a four day tournament - it's 9pm and we still have 11 players, meaning that we could be in for a really long night. If we make our final in the next hour or so, we'll play on; if it looks like it's going to take much longer than that then players and TDs will reassess.
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bink! 
. William Kakon and Jeff Cohen were head's-up and they both checked.
and once more, both players checked. The river brought a 
to the table, and Kakon fired a 130,000-chip bet. Cohen snapped and tabled 
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board. Wilkinson mucked at the end of the hand, and once Griner had raked in the pot he headed off to spend a round at the rail. Most unusual.