Robert Mizrachi doesn't seem to have many fans at his table. At the start of a stud hand, he stopped the dealer and told her that the way she was holding the deck, he could see the bottom card. The rest of the table didn't believe him and told her to keep dealing. The floor was called over, and Mizrachi told them he'd seen an ace while everyone else said he was just trying to stall.
"I think he's just full of it," Nick Schulman said. "I'm the f*#^king bring in, and I'm fighting this."
In the end, the floor decided they had to kill the hand and start over, and asked the dealer to handle the deck more carefully. Still, they suggested Mizrachi "stop costing us time." The grumbling continued well into the next hand. "I see a nine of diamonds in the middle of the deck," Schulman said. "Better redeal."
Michael Chow: (X-X) / / (X)
Carlos Mortensen: (X-X) / / (X)
Brandon Adams: (X-X) / / (X)
There was already nearly 200,000 in the middle when Carlos Mortensen bet out on sixth street. Brandon Adams raised him, and after playing the previous streets passively, Michael Chow tanked, then three-bet. Both his opponents were visibly surprised, but paid for one more card. It checked around on seventh, and Show turned over for aces and sevens. "One time," he said quietly as the other two squeezed their cards. Mortensen mucked, and Adams let out a slow breath before following suit.
Chow scooped the massive pot, moving from fairly short to 530,000. Mortensen fell to 270,000 and was forced to dip into the top tiers of his chip sculpture. And Brandon Adams is down to 200,000.
Robert Mizrachi and Nick Schulman have been going after each other all day, both verbally and on the felt. Things came to a head on a flop, where they got three bets in. After the turn put a low on the board, Mizrachi fired again. Schulman raised him, and Mizrachi called all in.
Showdown
Mizrachi:
Schulman:
Mizrachi held a nine-high flush and an 8-5-4-3-A low. But he was drawing dead to Schulman's nut flush and nut low. Schulman took out his nemesis in 17th place and built his own stack to 610,000.
Down to 16, the rest of the field has paused to redraw to the final two tables.
Brandon Adams raised from middle position, and John Hennigan three-bet behind him. Adams called to see the . He check-called Hennigan's flop bet and did the same after the on the turn. The on the river bricked low draws but filled in just about every other draw. Hennigan put in one last bet, leaving himself 2k behind. He turned over for trip sixes. Adams couldn't beat it with . Hennigan doubled to 260k, leaving Adams with 230k.
On an flop, Steve Billirakis got his last chips in, and Michael Chow called him. Billirakis held for top pair with a gutshot. Chow showed for the full straight draw. But neither the turn nor the river brought a third Broadway card, and Billirakis doubled up to 220,000.
Roman Yitzhaki: (X-X) / / (X)
Nick Schulman: (X-X) / / (X)
Yitzhaki led with bets on fourth and fifth, and Schulman called. Both checked sixth, and after looking at his final card, Schulman bet out. Yitzhaki folded, flashing the (ax2x) he'd started with and the third he'd caught on seventh. He is down to 100,000 now and in need of help.
The same round, Marco Traniello lost a big razz pot to Scott Fischman to find himself in similar difficulty.
Traniello led on fifth, and when Fischman raised, Schulman folded. Marco called, then bet out on sixth. Scott flatted. Traniello checked seventh, and Fischman bet. Traniello called to see that Fischman had caught a wheel. Fischman is up to 560,000 while Traniello is down to 127,000.
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for aces and sevens. "One time," he said quietly as the other two squeezed their cards. Mortensen mucked, and Adams let out a slow breath before following suit.
turn before the 
landed on the river. Glantz checked, Yitzhaki fired a bet and Glantz made the call.
for top two pair and seven-low. Yitzhaki is up to 240,000 with Glantz slipping to 315,000.
turn put a low on the board, Mizrachi fired again. Schulman raised him, and Mizrachi called all in.
on the river bricked low draws but filled in just about every other draw. Hennigan put in one last bet, leaving himself 2k behind. He turned over 
for trip sixes. Adams couldn't beat it with 
. Hennigan doubled to 260k, leaving Adams with 230k.
flop, Steve Billirakis got his last chips in, and Michael Chow called him. Billirakis held 
for the full straight draw. But neither the 
turn nor the 
river brought a third Broadway card, and Billirakis doubled up to 220,000.
