Matt Glantz: (X-X) / / (X)
Carlos Mortensen: (X-X) / / (X)
Carlos Mortensen completed, and Glantz called. He called again when Mortensen bet on fourth and fifth. The Matador checked sixth, then called a bet from Glantz. Both players checked on the end. Mortensen tabled , saying "Eight." He did indeed have an eight-low. Too bad the game had switched from razz to stud. Glantz held and won the pot with a pair of fives. He's up to 700k while Mortensen's mistake dropped him to 400k.
After the hand, Carlos asked the dealer to move the placard that displays the game so that he could see it.
Steve Billirakis had just folded on sixth in a razz hand, leaving himself only 35,000. When the game switched to stud, he was all in on third with / against Brandon Adams' / . The boards fell:
Billirakis: / / (X)
Adams: / / (X)
Billirakis was ahead until Adams peeled the on seventh to make top pair. Billirakis squeezed his last card and turned over the , giving him a straight to stay alive. Billirakis is still short with 85,000, and now Adams is short as well with 95,000.
Brandon Adams got his last chips in on third when he completed, Richard Ashby raised, he three-bet, Ashby four-bet, and he called all in.
Adams: / /
Ashby: / /
Adams split aces held and he doubled to 210,000. Ashby dipped to 470,000 after paying him.
In another stud hand, Steve Billirakis was all in by fifth against John Hennigan.
Billirakis: /
Hennigan: /
Hennigan picked up the next, giving him a heart draw to go with his pair of sixes. Billirakis caught the on sixth, meaning he'd need any ace, queen, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, or diamond to double. And the fit the bill, giving him 140,000 and the chance to see another hand. Hennigan was left with 210,000.
Steve Billirakis: (X-X) / / (X)
Marco Johnson: (X-X) / / (X)
John Hennigan: (X-X) / / (X)
We caught up with the action on fourth, when Johnson led with a bet, and Hennigan and Billirakis both called. Johnson bet again on fifth, and Hennigan raised. Billirakis three-bet, and the other two called. Billirakis moved all in with his last few thousand on the next street, and Johnson called. Hennigan raised it to a full bet, and Johnson called that as well. He check-called one last bet on the side, and it was time for a complicated showdown. Billirakis showed , and queens full of tens was good for the high half of the main pot. Hennigan's gave him the low of the main and side pots, and Johnson had made a straight to take half of the side pot.
The end result left Billirakis with 200,000, Hennigan with 200,000, and Johnson with 560,000.
Roman Yitzhaki was all in on fourth, and Townsend got is last chips in on seventh in another complicated three-way stud-8 pot. Here's how things worked out:
Roman Yitzhaki: / / - jacks and tens for the high half of the main pot
Brian Townsend: / / - aces for the high half of the side pot
Carlos Mortensen: / / - six-four low for the low half of both pots
Mortensen profited to move up to 520,000, Yitzhaki improved to 140,000, and Townsend was left with the short end of the stick and 100,000.
Scott Fischman limped in middle position, and Brian Townsend raised. Roman Yitzhaki three-bet from the small blind, and Fischman called. Then Townsend four-bet, and Yitzhaki called all in. Fishcman called as well with chips behind. The flop fell . Fischman bet, and Townsend called. Fischman checked the turn, then called Townsend's all in bet. The action was complete before the completed the board.
Showdown
Townsend: - pair of queens good for the high half of the main pot and all of the side pot
Yitzhaki: - eight-six low good for half of the main pot
Fischman: - good for absolutely nothing
Yitzhaki survived with 145,000, Townsend got back 150,000, and Fischman fell to 400,000 and failed to eliminate anybody.
Just prior to the break we lost Brandon Adams in 16th place. He was short and got his last chips in on a flop against Marco Johnson.
Adams held for aces but Johnson had flopped two pair and a low with his . The turn was a and river a and Adams departs in 16th place as Johnson jumps into the lead.
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/ (X)
/ (X)
, saying "Eight." He did indeed have an eight-low. Too bad the game had switched from razz to stud. Glantz held 
and won the pot with a pair of fives. He's up to 700k while Mortensen's mistake dropped him to 400k.
/ 
/ 
. The boards fell:
/ (X)
/ (X)
on seventh to make top pair. Billirakis squeezed his last card and turned over the 
, giving him a straight to stay alive. Billirakis is still short with 85,000, and now Adams is short as well with 95,000.
/ 
on sixth, meaning he'd need any ace, queen, jack, ten, nine, eight, seven, or diamond to double. And the 
fit the bill, giving him 140,000 and the chance to see another hand. Hennigan was left with 210,000.
/ (X)
/ (X)
, and queens full of tens was good for the high half of the main pot. Hennigan's 
/ 
/ 
/ 
/ 
/ 
flop against Marco Johnson.
for aces but Johnson had flopped two pair and a low with his 
and river a 
and Adams departs in 16th place as Johnson jumps into the lead.