Kenneth Aldridge had the bring in and Daniel Makowsky called before Jeffrey Lisandro completed. Aldridge and Makowsky made the call.
Lisandro had the lead on fourth street. He bet, Aldridge folded and Makowsky made the call. On fifth street, Lisandro bet and Makowsky made the call. Makowsky and Lisandro both checked on sixth street. And on the final street, Makowsky had the lead and check-called Lisandro's bet.
Lisandro showed -X- () for a ninety-six. Makowsky was showing -X and mucked.
David Benyamine completed before Ryan Hughes raised. Benyamine made the call. On fourth street Hughes had the lead and bet and Benyamine followed along. Benyamine bet all in on fifth street and Hughes called, putting Benyamine at risk.
Back-to-back hands of stud ended badly for Chad Brown, pushing his stack down to less than 100,000 chips.
Hand No. 1
Brown: X-X / / X
Hahn: X-X / / X
Albert Hahn completed third street and was called only by Brown. Hahn bet the lead on fourth street, then had to call when Brown picked up the lead and bet it on fifth street. Brown slowed down by sixth street, checking and then calling a bet. Both players checked seventh street, where Hahn produced as his hole cards for two pairs, aces and tens. It was the winner.
Hand No. 2
Brown: X-X / / X
Baker: X-X / / X
The very next hand, David Baker completed third street and was called by Brown and by Dan Makowsky. Makowsky exited to Brown's fourth street bet. Baker called to fifth street, where he made open sixes. He bet, then called Brown's raise.
Baker checked and called sixth street, then checked and raised the river. That was very bad news for Brown, who made a crying call.
"I was rolled up," said Baker. he opened for tens full of sixes. Brown flashed the and mucked.
Two quick hands of stud hi/lo ended David Benyamine's tournament n a hurry. First, Benyamine had to fold sixth street, showing X-X / , after Phil Ivey fired a bet on fifth street and sixth street, showing X-X / .
Shortly thereafter, Benyamine completed third street with a after Brent Wheeler brought it in with the . Wheeler then raised and Benyamine called. When Benyamine made open fours on fourth street, a series of raises got the money all in. Wheeler was rolled up, bad news for Benyamine. The boards rolled out:
Benyamine: / /
Wheeler: / /
Benyamine made trip fours on sixth street, but Wheeler caught the case deuce to make quads. Benyamine had no low draw, leaving him one out to avoid elimination. It was Wheeler, however, who drew the case four on the river.
Ming Reslock's stack was on a roller-coaster ride today. It finally crashed out in the stud hi/lo round to Ryan Hughes. Reslock, who made 15th place in the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. event, does two spots better with her 13th-place finish today. Six days of H.O.R.S.E. are finally over for Reslock.
Phil Ivey completed with three kings showing. Ryan Hughes made the call. The two checked fourth street. Ivey had the lead on fifth street and bet. Hughs made the call and on sixth street, Hughes again called Ivey's bet. Ivey again had the lead on seventh and he bet and Hughes called.
Ivey: ()
Hughes: ()
Ivey won the pot with aces up.
Not too long after that, Ivey won another stud hand against Brent Wheeler and chipped up to 315,000.
Chad Brown got a brief reprieve before he started bleeding more chips, this time in stud hi/lo. On fourth street, Makowsky bet the best board and Brown called. Makowsky was all in by fifth street. He had three kings, while Brown was four to a wheel. Brown made a running two pair, aces and fours, but no low. Makowsky scooped the whole pot with his three kings to double up to 170,000.