Layne Flack is certainly in a gregarious mood after the dinner break. He got his chips in the middle again a few minutes later with against his opponent's . The board came , and Flack hit an ace to double up to 12,000.
"When I drink, two things happen," Flack told anyone who cared to listen. "Either I get it in with the best hand, or I make the best hand."
The player sitting next to him took out headphones.
Jason Gray got it all in pre with against an opponent with . Gray just had the man's 12,000 covered. The made things interesting. The turn was a , and Gray had to dodge one more card. He called for the safest thing he could think of - a black deuce. The dealer burned and peeled the for Gray. With the elimination, Jason is up to 24,000.
Martin Kabrhel put 13,000 chips across the line with , and his nemesis, Arnaud Mattern, looked him up with . Little slick held, and Mattern eliminated Kabrhel. Arnaud is now sitting behind 58,000, which looks to be the second biggest stack in the room. Somehow, Darren Spurlock has amassed 80,000.
Team PokerStars Pro: Brazil member Gualter Salles was heads up on a board. When his opponent checked, Salles bet 1,600. The other player paid to see the on the turn and acted like he really, really liked the scare card, moving all in. Salles liked it too, however, and looked up his opponent with for a rivered two pair. The other man showed on his way to the door. Salles is up to 17,000.
Will Failla told us that his pocket queens held against Chris Bell's pocket tens to eliminate Mr. Bell. Having accumulated Bell's stack, Failla is up to 13,000.
After his opponent raised to 975, the current chip leader, Darren Spurlock, reraised to 3,000. The other player moved all in for a total of 10,000, and Spurlock called with . He looked likely to drop some of his big stack to his opponent with , but the flop had something to say about that. The turn and river kept him in the lead, busting the short stack. Spurlock is even further out in front now with 95,000.
One player opened to 1,050, and the small blind called. Humberto Brenes bumped it up to 8,000, and the original raiser moved all in. The small blind got out of the way, and Brenes called with to race the other player's . The board came , and Brenes took out his opponent. He was up to 51,000 then, and a few hands later had 60,000. "The shark is hungry," he told us.
David Chicotsky's held up against his opponent's through the flop and the turn. But as the Maven will teach you, you've got to dodge five cards in this game. The on the river was all it took to take down the mighty Maven.
Layne Flack was confident he was going to stick around for awhile, but it turns out his predictive powers were a little off. He was heads up on a board. Flack shipped in his last 7,400, and his opponent played sheriff with . Flack was caught in the act with and sent to the rail as punishment.