Fabrice Soulier doubled up a short stack when his pocket fives didn't get there against the other player's pair of sevens. A few minutes later, it was Soulier who picked up 
. He raised to 9,600, and a player behind him moved all in for 85,000 total. Soulier made the call and was quite pleased to see that he was in a race with 
. But his smile faded with an ace in the door. The 
board didn't work out for Soulier, and he doubled up a second short stack to sink to 255,000.
Action folded to Hafiz Khan in the cutoff seat and he moved all in for 28,800. The button called and then Scotty Nguyen called from the small blind.
The three players saw a flop of 
and Nguyen fired 25,000. The button made the call. The turn brought the and Nguyen fired 65,000. The button tanked for around ten minutes. A massive crowd had gathered around the table along with three ESPN cameras to film all the action. Eventually, he folded the .
Nguyen held the 
and Khan the 
. Nguyen first scooped the side pot before the river was dealt.
The river completed the board with the 
and completed the tournament for Khan. Nguyen's up to 285,000 in chips.
Over on the main feature table, Jeff Fenech pushed all in for his last 45,100 from middle position, and Johnny Chan made the call from the button. The blinds got out, and the players tabled their cards:
Fenech
Chan 
The race was on. The flop came 
, and Fenech was still good. The 
turn then took away a couple of Chan's outs. And the river was the 
, giving Fenech a flush and doubling him to about 95,000.
Chan is still sporting a big stack -- over 700,000 it appears.
Peter Jetten led out on a board of 
, Hasan Habib moved all-in and Jetten snap-called.
Habib looked disgusted as he discovered his 
was up against Jetten's 
. He turned around and was about to leave when Brandon Cantu stopped him.
"Wait a minute. I feel a queen coming for you," Cantu insisted.
Cantu's instinct proved to be positively psychic as the 
fell on the river, giving Habib the double up.
"Oh my God! Can I kiss you!" said a relieved Habib, who took a trip around the table to plant one on Cantu's cheek.
In a hand that was recalled to us by a tablemate, Evelyn Ng has virtually doubled up and eliminated an opponent in the process.
It was Ng's up against as an exciting board ran out 
. Ng's flush was too good for her opponent's set as she is now up to 180,000.
When we arrived at the table the board spread 
and there were more than 100,000 chips in the pot. Patrik Antonius moved all in for about 87,000 chips and his opponent tanked.
After a minute or two, he announced call and tabled 
. Antonius tabled .
The river card was a and Antonius doubled up to 360,000 chips.
A quick update from the two feature tables…
At the secondary feature table, Gavin Smith returns from the break to a super short stack of 45,500. Meanwhile, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi had a good last half-hour over there, pushing up to 190,000.
Both are in the tall shadow of Max Casal's big stack, though. Like everyone else at the table. Casal has 861,000.
At the main feature table, Jeff Fenech has 92,000, while Johnny Chan returns to a stack of 753,000. And Brett Richey is back in business after scoring a double-up on the last hand before the break.
In that hand, Richey got all of his chips in on the turn with the board showing 
. Richey had and his opponent 
. The river was the 
, and Richey stacked up 262,000 right before the color-up.
It looks like they'll be switching out this group from the main table after the break. More to come.
Karina Jett was all in for 64,900 preflop with , and she found a call from Andrew Brown and his pocket deuces.
The board ran out 
, and Jett has doubled herself up to about 171,000.
From the middle of the Blue section, Barbara Martinez was heard having a shrieking crisis of some sort. We heard the commotion before we saw it, so we hustled over to see what drew the blood-curdling scream.
Martinez had gotten her chips in with against Gregory Chochon's 
in a blind-versus-blind debacle. The flop was not at all good news for Martinez's overcards, as the set of sevens had her drawing dead to two runners.
The turn 
was the first runner, and the river was the cause for the shrill scream. Martinez has loudly doubled up to 163,000 in the luckiest of ways, and Chochon had to endure that celebration as he stared down at his little lonely stack of just 15,000 remaining chips.
