Erick Lindgren limped in from under the gun and the action folded to Joseph Ressler who called from the button, as did Jesper Hougaard from the big blind before all three players checked the flop of .
Hougaard then led out for 6,000 on the turn of the ; Lindgren folded and Ressler called before Hougaard check-folded to Ressler's bet of 20,000 on the river of the . Ressler is now up to 121,000 while Hougaard slips to less than 102,000.
We stumbled upon a monster pot containing around 160,000 with a board reading . Greg Brooks had a bet of 85,000 laying in front of him from the small blind. Action was on Blaz Svara in the under-the-gun position and he hit the tank hard. It took a few minutes, but eventually Svara gave up the pot . . . and the chip lead.
Vanessa Selbst came into the pot for a raise to 7,000, and Gary Pollak called. Action folded to Chris Moorman in the big blind, who announced a pot size raise worth 29,500. Selbst quickly folded, and Pollak called, leaving himself just 11,500. Those chips went into the middle when the flop came . The two players flipped their cards over, and Pollak had outflopped Moorman.
Moorman:
Pollack:
The turn came the , and the river brought the , and Pollack survived the hand to up his stack to 92,000.
Tommy Le raised it up to 7,000 from the cutoff and Matthew Ezrol re-raised pot from the small blind. Le called to see a flop of and immediately put Ezrol all in for his last 3,000 or so with Ezrol calling.
Ezrol:
Le:
As we said above, the flop was and Ezrol was in the lead, the turn made no difference, but the river gave Le two-pair and he said, "Sorry man, hate to knock out the guy on the bubble." The two shook hands and Ezrol stormed off, understandably frustrated.
Now that we are in the money we should see play pick up and eliminations left and right.
Now that the remaining players are in the money, WSOP rules state that headphones must be removed. David "Devilfish" Ulliott and Erick Lindgren were just debating the merits of the rule with the former player serving as the advocate.
"It slows the games up," Devilfish said about headphones. "This isn't no limit where you can play in your sleep. People want to know what's going on in this game."
About 20 minutes ago, Blaz Svara had 400,000, and was the chip leader of the tournament. Now, he is out, and Gregory Brooks inherited most of his stack. We caught the big hand on the turn, with the board reading . Brooks put out a bet of 43,000, and Svara announced pot. There was a lengthy discussion at the table as to whether Svara was all in, and it was ultimately determined that he was. Once Brooks found out that Svara was all in, he made the call, and saw that he had Svara drawing dead.
Brooks:
Svara:
Svara had the ace of spades, but no other spade, and Brook's second nut flush was good enough to take the pot. The meaningless river was the , and now Brooks is the overwhelming chip leader with 750,000.
We're now down to 44 players as the action continues here in the Amazon Room and amongst the first four eliminations was Markus Ristola.
All the money was in the middle pre-flop; Ristola had committed the last of his stack in with , but Vanessa Selbst's improved to trips after the dealer spread the board of . As a result, Selbst is now up to 520,000.
We can also confirm that Joseph Cheong has been eliminated. While we weren't able to catch the action, we did see him being escorted out of the room by the tournament staff to collect his cash.
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; Lindgren folded and Ressler called before Hougaard check-folded to Ressler's bet of 20,000 on the river of the 
. Ressler is now up to 121,000 while Hougaard slips to less than 102,000.
. Greg Brooks had a bet of 85,000 laying in front of him from the small blind. Action was on Blaz Svara in the under-the-gun position and he hit the tank hard. It took a few minutes, but eventually Svara gave up the pot . . . and the chip lead.
. The two players flipped their cards over, and Pollak had outflopped Moorman.
, and the river brought the 
, and Pollack survived the hand to up his stack to 92,000.
. Brooks put out a bet of 43,000, and Svara announced pot. There was a lengthy discussion at the table as to whether Svara was all in, and it was ultimately determined that he was. Once Brooks found out that Svara was all in, he made the call, and saw that he had Svara drawing dead.
improved to trips after the dealer spread the board of 
