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Josh Brikis is almost around the 100,000 mark after four-betting with 
and then calling off his stack against his opponent's pocket 
. There was a on the flop and Brikis was beginning to pack up and head out the door but then a appeared on the turn to save him.
One of the coolest stories coming into today was that Pratyush Buddiga, known more so for winning the 2002 Scripps Spelling Bee, was in the money after winning his table yesterday. Well Buddiga's chances of winning another championship just took a crippling blow when he lost a huge pot to Vitaly Lunkin. Lunkin opened under the gun for 1,800. He got one caller, then Buddiga raised to 5,000 on the button. Action folded to Lunkin, who made it 12,000. Buddiga then went all in for 46,500, and Lunkin called for his final 40,700. We had a feeling we knew what the hands would be, and sure enough, it was the dreaded aces vs kings.
Buddiga: 
Lunkin: 
The 
flop was innocent enough, but the turn brought a brutal 
. Buddiga couldn't catch up on the river, as it came the 
, and Buddiga was knocked down to 6,000, while Lunkin doubled up to over 82,000.
Roberto Romanello, EPT and WPT winner, will have to wait for another event to complete the Triple Crown. He has just been eliminated by Theo Tran's 
on a 
board. Romanello held 
and couldn't find another bullet to save himself.
It doesn't matter how good you get it in, sometimes it's just not going to be your day - as Michael Cardosa just found out.
He was all in with 
on the turn of a 
, looks pretty good right? Well it was against Andrew Youngblood's 
so the latter only had two outs but then....BOOM! the 
came on the river as Youngblood backdoored into a bigger full house to shatter Cardosa's dreams.
It's a cruel stupid game sometimes.
The way that the day has been going so far, we almost expect to see a suck out, as player after player has been overcoming coming the odds and percentages. We caught the hand as three players were all in holding pocket pairs.
Randall: 
Stammen: 
Carillo: 
David Randall was the short stack of the table and was looking to hold on to triple up. He survived the flop of 
, but the turn brough the 
, giving Keven Stammen a set. The river brought the , and Randall was eliminated. Stammen nearly tripled up to 58,000, and Peter Carillo dropped down to 28,000.
We didn't see the hand, but we heard the scream of payout on Table 287, and we saw Jennifer Tilly packing up her stuff and heading to the payout desk. She has been eliminated.
Dan O'Brien was all in for his last 25,000 on a 
flop with against Dan Kelly's 
, the 
turn and failing to provide the latter with the club he needed to complete the elimination.
O'Brien is up to 50,000 while Kelly remains with around 100,000.
In what has been the common theme of the day, we have just seen another brutal all in suckout. Although this hand turned out a bit differently. Amit Mahkija and his opponent Valdemar Kwaysser got all the chips in the middle, with Mahkija having him covered.
Mahkija:
Kwaysser:
The flop brought Mahkija his out when it came . But the turn flipped the script once again when it came the . The way the day has been, we were half expecting one of the two aces to come on the river, but it came the 
, and Kwaysser doubled up, knocking Mahkija back down to 15,000.
Eric Mizrachi and his opponent, Jean-Paul Pasqualini, got all the chips in preflop, with Mizrachi having the shorter stack.
Mizrachi:
Pasqualini: 
Both players hit the flop of 
, which unfortunately for Mizrachi, meant that he was drawing very slim. The turn brought a few outs when it came the , but the river was the , knocking him out and boosting Pasqualini's stack to 36,000.
Steven van Zadelhoff is out after he got into a blind on blind battle with Theo Tran. Tran made it 2,000 in the small blind and the Dutchman put in about 20,000 with very little behind. Tran set him in and van Zadelhoff quickly called.
Van Zadelhoff: 
Tran:
The board came 
- a rivered and unnecessary full house for Tran who further cements his chip lead over the table.
