Dragan Galic's day continues to go well. Just now we came upon another big hand involving Galic.
In this one the board showed and there was about 35,000 already in the middle. Galic pushed all in, and his opponent called with his remaining 20,000.
Galic flipeed over for aces full, crushing his opponent's . Another player hits the rail as we near the end of Level 5. Meanwhile, Galic has pushed up over 310,000 -- the biggest stack around at the moment.
Fatima Moreira De Melo opened with a raise to 1,250 from early position before the player in the big blind moved all in for 14,600. De Melo made the call.
De Melo:
Opponent:
The flop was to pair up De Melo to take the lead and the turn bricked the . However the river was a brutal to give her opponent the two-outer for the double up. She's back down to 37,500.
Carter Phillips just picked off a bluff from Greg Mueller to move up to 196,000 chips. Phillips called Mueller's 3,800-chip river bet with just bottom pair and Mueller held only queen high. Mueller dropped to about 30,000 in chips.
Level 6 is in the books and out of the 2,412 players who started today, 1,908 still have chips in front of them. Robert Mizrachi vaulted up to 230,000 while his brother Michael fell on harder times. "The Grinder" hasn't been able to get anything going today and has fallen to 50,000 in chips. Stacking up the largest tower at the break was Dragan Galic, who is the first player to crack the 300k mark-- he's up to about 310,000.
Also departing this level were "Hollywood" Dave Stann, Luca Pagano, Abe Mosseri, Liz Lieu, Terrence Chan, Julian Thew, Marcel Luske, and Veronica Dabul.
Players are off on their second break of the day. We'll see you in 20 minutes.
We just caught Erik Seidel eliminating a short-stacked player who was all in preflop. The at-risk player put just less than 10,000 into the pot with , and Seidel was right there with , dominating and with a chance at a knockout.
The board ran , and that's that. Seidel claims his victim, stacking his chips to move up to 51,000.
We overheard Jennifer "Jennicide" Leigh say, "I wanna see it, so I call," as she stuck in the chips to call her opponent's all-in bet. Leigh held the and her opponent the .
The flop was big for Leigh, coming down . The turn was the and the river the . Leigh won the hand with her trip kings and eliminated the player. She's now on 95,000 in chips.