Anthony Gargiulo raised from middle position, and Habib Khanis shoved for 35,000. Garguilo called with and was less than excited to see that Khanis had . The board came , and Khanis doubled to 72,000 while Gargiulo slipped to 30,000.
Matthew Stern raised to 6,000 and Brent Schierbon pushed all in for a total of 30,000. Roberto Romanello came over the top for around 75,000, which forced Stern out. The card were then turned over:
Schierbon:
Romanello:
The board ran out and Schierbon doubled to around 70,000.
Three players over at Table 373, including Jean-Robert Bellande, saw a flop of .
After all players checked, the turn came . Darin Utley checked and an unknown player bet 8,500. Bellande called only to have Utley shove all in for 55,200. The unknown player folded and Bellande made the call.
Bellande:
Utley:
The river was the , giving Utley a full house, and dropping Bellande to 127,000.
After nearly three hours, there is still one empty chair in the field. Just over 75,000 in chips were taken out of Bruce Stern's bag for him today, but he still hasn't shown up yet. He's made a few pay jumps in his absence, but he has blinded down to 45,000.
Blake Kelso raised to 5,200 in middle position, only to have Tim West shove all in for 31,500. Action folded back around to Kelso who made the call with .
West was ahead with and was looking good to double when the flop came . That all changed when the appeared on the turn. Suddenly West needed an eight to stay alive.
Alas, it was not meant to be as the came on the river. West was eliminated while Kelso increased his stack to 132,000.
We caught up with the action on the river of a big hand between Cliff Josephy and Samuel Dickson. There was already about 50,000 in the middle and the board read when JohnnyBax bet 30,000. Dickson snap-shoved, and Bax didn't have to do much thinking before he folded. Dickson showed for a seven-high straight as he scooped the pot and jumped to 170,000. "Good fold," Dickson said. "Well, I had nine-high." He tweeted a few minutes later that he'd had and had bricked just about every draw in the book.
Josephy was down to 20,900 after the failed bluff, and he moved all in from early position the next hand with . Jesse Yaginuma called with . Bax took the lead on the flop, but Yaginuma picked up a straight draw. He didn't hit though, and after the turn and river, Josephy doubled up to 47,000.
Habib Khanis raised under the gun to 5,200 and Anthony Gargiulo pushed all in for 24,000. Khanis called and flipped over the . Gargiulo was looking for help with his .
The flop made things interesting when it came , giving Gargiulo a flush draw. The turn was no help, so it was down to one card. The came on the river and Gargiulo was sent packing.