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Hold'em
Catching the action on a flop of 
, Brian Townsend bet and Matt Glantz made the call. The turn was the 
and Townsend fired and with Glantz making the call.
The river brought the 
and Townsend released a third barrel, but Glantz responded with a raise. Townsend folded as Glantz took it down uncontested. Townsend slips to 150,000.
Hold'em
Scott Fischman raised from the cutoff, and on the button, Brian Townsend reraised. Matt Glantz folded the small blind, and Carlos Mortensen made it four-bets in the big blind. Fischman snap-folded, and Townsend called. The flop fell 
, and Mortensen bet out. Townsend put in his last chips, giving Mortensen a few more to call. Townsend turned up 
and was going to need to improve against Mortensen's 
. The 
on the turn didn't help, and the river was equally useless. Townsend shook hands with everyone and made his exit. At least his girlfriend, Kara Scott, was on the rail to give him a hug.
They're now redrawing to one nine-handed table.
Here are the seats for the final table. One player will leave us before it becomes official.
Seat 1: Richard Ashby - 300,000
Seat 2: Nick Schulman - 385,000
Seat 3: Matt Glantz - 1,400,000
Seat 4: Eugene Katchalov - 870,000
Seat 5: Carlos Mortensen - 780,000
Seat 6: Marco Johnson - 1,680,000
Seat 7: Marco Traniello - 90,000
Seat 8: Scott Fischman - 515,000
Seat 9: Ian Gordon - 1,050,000
As the players took their seats for the final table, the tournament director announced to the players that in order to prevent this final table from going until 8am (a realistic possibility), that they would play until we lost one more player, then we would stop, bag, tag and return to play it out tomorrow.
However, the players were not particularly thrilled by this with Carlos Mortensen and Richard Ashby particularly vocal. They insisted that the "blinds were huge" and that it was a three-day tournament, so it should be played out tonight.
Nick Shulman commented that he didn't sleep last night (we won't question his preparation for day three of a WSOP event!) and wouldn't mind going home and coming back tomorrow.
The decision was then put to the players, however if they couldn't agree to a unanimous decision, then play would stop for the night at eight players.
It appeared that no-one was game to speak up against the pack, and so they all agreed to play it out! Grab your sleeping bags folks!
After a quick pause, the players are now back at the table and the cards are back in the air. We'll be playing until we lose one more player, then taking a dinner break, before moving over to the ESPN feature table to play it out!
Level: 22
Blinds: 13,000/25,000
Ante: 0
Omaha-8
Marco Traniello raised it up before Ian Gordon put in a three-bet. Traniello made the call and they took a flop of 
. Traniello bet, Gordon raised before Traniello re-raised all in. Gordon made the call.
Traniello: 
Gordon: 
Gordon had the overpair but Traniello had straight, flush and low outs. The 
on the turn changed nothing but the on the river was the perfect card as Traniello made the nut flush to go with his nut low.
Scoop for Traniello doubled him up to 325,000 with Gordon back to 690,000.
Razz
Nick Schulman completed before Matt Glantz announced a raise. Schulman made the call and both players checked fourth. Schulman caught better on fifth and led out but Glantz made the call. Both players checked it down on sixth and seventh.
Schulman: (
) / 
Glantz: (
) / 
Double-paired board for both players but Schulman ended up with a jack which bettered Glantz's king.
Schulman is up to 525,000 with Glantz back down to 1.3 million.
Razz
Scott Fischman completed and then called the raise of Ian Gordon. On fourth and fifth, Gordon led the betting before Fischman took control on sixth and seventh. Gordon called him down.
Fischman: (X-X-X) /
Gordon: (
) / 
"Jack," said Fischman when his river bet was called as Gordon took it down with his eighty-seven. Gordon moves to 840,000 with Fischman down to 390,000.
Stud
An interesting situation has gone down where Marco Johnson's cards were accidentally mucked by the dealer.
Johnson had raised in stud with the 
showing and Marco Traniello, to his direct left folded. As the dealer reached over to sweep up Traniello's cards, he accidentally collected Johnson's cards as well.
"Woah!" exclaimed Johnson, "What you doing boss?!"
Johnson was obviously agitated and Nick Schulman tried to calm him down as Johnson started to get aggressive. Unfortunately Johnson's cards could not be retrieved but he was given his raise amount back.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
1,245,000
-435,000
|
-435,000 |
|
||
|
1,160,000
-140,000
|
-140,000 |
|
|
||
|
1,050,000
180,000
|
180,000 |
|
||
|
930,000
90,000
|
90,000 |
|
|
||
|
785,000
5,000
|
5,000 |
|
||
|
565,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
||
|
410,000
110,000
|
110,000 |
|
|
||
|
400,000
75,000
|
75,000 |
|
300,000
-90,000
|
-90,000 |
