Facing a raise to 2,200 and a re-raise from the hi-jack to 5,400, Sammy Farha made the call from the big blind along with the initial raiser.
The flop fell down and it was checked to the hi-jack who fired out 7,000. Farha called as the original raiser passed to see the land on the turn.
Farha checked and the hi-jack moved all in for 18,100 with Farha making the call.
Farha:
Opponent:
With Farha being outdrawn on the turn, he would need one of the four remaining jacks to stay alive, but when the river landed the , he slipped to 175,000 in chips.
There was a massive pot cooked up between Lex Veldhuis and one other player on the board of . Veldhuis' opponent was all in for 34,900 and action was on Veldhuis.
"I have a lot of outs," said Veldhuis to the player. He then made the call just as the ESPN cameras got there. Veldhuis tabled the and his opponent the . Veldhuis had a pair of eights and a flush draw to his opponent's pair of tens. The all-in player did have one spade to take that away from Veldhuis.
As the cameras were setting up the shot, the all-in player looked into the camera and said, "If I bust, I want you to be sure to get it on TV."
Veldhuis then said, "If I lose, I don't want to be on TV."
The dealer than ran the river card and placed the on the board, missing Veldhuis and doubling up his opponent. Veldhuis slipped to 78,000 in chips.
Three players, including Brian Hastings, saw a flop of . It checked to Hastings who bet 5,700, and one of his opponents called.
The turn was the . Hastings' opponent checked, and Hastings bet 15,000, enough to put his opponent all in. He got the call, and Hastings tabled for a full house. His opponent had . The river was the , and another player has been eliminated.
Between Josef Monro (147k), Shannon Shorr (135k), and Stefan Huber (145k), there are a lot of chips on Table 36, meaning there is potential there for some explosive chip-lead-changing pots. And fortunately for us (and you), the table is directly in front of the bloggers table in Pavilion.
In one recent hand that wasn't as damaging as it could have been, Monro raised to 2,000 from the cutoff, and Huber defended his big blind. The flop fell , and Huber check-called 3,300. After the turn put a third club on the board, Huber checked again, and Monro checked behind. The river was the , and Huber bet out a small 2,100. Monro called with to discover that he was just out-pipped by Huber's .
Preflop, Tiffany Michelle limped in from middle position and only the blinds came along to see a flop of . Action checked around and the fell on the turn. Again it was check, check to Michelle who this time fired 2,500. Her opponent in the small blind then check-raised the minimum to 5,000 with Michelle the only caller.
The river was the and the small blind checked to Michelle who fired 8,000. Her opponent made a quick call, and Michelle showed for a busted straight and flush draw, as her opponent opened for top pair. Michelle slips down to 50,000.
Steve O'Dwyer was all in preflop with pocket sixes and racing for his tournament life againt the from his opponent. O'Dwyer was all in for 22,000. The board ran through to end O'Dwyer's tournament.
"Good luck everybody," he said as he departed the room.
Two more hours of poker are in the books at the WSOP Main Event and 729 of today's 2,412 starters have already seen their Main Event dreams come to an end. Two former world champions--Berry Johnston and Tom McEvoy--exited this level along with Andre Akkari, Liz Lieu, Amnon Filippi, David "The Dragon" Pham, and Haralabos Voulgaris.
On the other end of the spectrum, Dragan Galic and Robert Mizrachi are still one-two in the chip counts. This level saw the rise of Yevgeniy Timoshenko, who won a series of pots to take him up to 220,000 as well as Cole South, who doubled up with a set of aces over a set of nines to take his stack up to 223,000. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi was also able to reclaim some lost chips, taking his stack from 50,000 to 97,000 in this level.
This break will be a bit longer than the usual 20 minutes, as there is a massive color-up scheduled. All of the green 25-denomination chips will be removed from play, so expect action to pick back up in about half an hour.
Daniel Alaei was all in preflop with , and that's not a very good thing when your opponent calls with .
There was an ace on the flop! But, unfortunately, also an eight. The board ran , and Alaei's day is done.
Daniel won another bracelet this year, his third overall, and that puts him in some fairly elite company. He won't be adding a fourth this year, though, not unless he plans on making the trip to London for the WSOPE in the fall.
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and it was checked to the hi-jack who fired out 7,000. Farha called as the original raiser passed to see the 
land on the turn.
, he slipped to 175,000 in chips.
. Veldhuis' opponent was all in for 34,900 and action was on Veldhuis.
. Veldhuis had a pair of eights and a flush draw to his opponent's pair of tens. The all-in player did have one spade to take that away from Veldhuis.
on the board, missing Veldhuis and doubling up his opponent. Veldhuis slipped to 78,000 in chips.
. It checked to Hastings who bet 5,700, and one of his opponents called.
. Hastings' opponent checked, and Hastings bet 15,000, enough to put his opponent all in. He got the call, and Hastings tabled 
for a full house. His opponent had 
. The river was the 
, and Huber check-called 3,300. After the 
turn put a third club on the board, Huber checked again, and Monro checked behind. The river was the 
and the small blind checked to Michelle who fired 8,000. Her opponent made a quick call, and Michelle showed 
to end O'Dwyer's tournament.
, and Alaei's day is done.