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Matt Jarvis and Jonathan Duhamel were just eliminated nearly simultaneously from the field. Now's a good time to mention that the only member of the November Nine to skip this event was Michael Mizrachi, but he most certainly had a good excuse. Mizrachi is busy crushing souls with four left in Event #47.
Under the gun, a player threw his last, lonely, yellow T1,000 chip into the pot. That's a call, and the simple mistake drew a pretty good chuckle from the rest of the table. Nick Maimone called as well, and Lex Veldhuis announced, "Protection," as he raised to 2,800. The under-the-gun player verbally called the extra 200 chips to put himself at risk, and Maimone called the raise as well.
The board ran out 
, and the two live players checked to the river. On the final street, Veldhuis made a motion to bet, and Maimone mucked. Veldhuis tabled 
, and it earned him the pot, the knockout, and a chip increase to about 79,000.
Level: 10
Blinds: 400/800
Ante: 100
With one level left in the day, we need to take a break to color up and race off those pesky green T25 chips.
We'll be back in 20 minutes.
A player in early position opened to 1,700, and Daniel Alaei three-bet to 4,200. On the button, another player cold four-bet to 9,500, folding the initial raiser without incident. Alaei was undeterred though, shoving in for the 19,600 chips his opponent had left. The call came, and Alaei was in good shape.
Showdown
Alaei: 
Opponent: 
The flop came 
to put Mr. Opponent in a big hole, but he did have four outs to the gutterball to try and chase down. The turn 
was a blank though, and the 
on the river was not the six he was looking for. Alaei sends one to the rail, upping his count to about 87,000 in the process.
Carlos Mortensen raised from middle position to 1,700 and a woman sitting to his left three-bet him to 4,500. It folded back around to Mortensen and he made the call.
The flop was and Mortensen checked. His opponent bet 5,400 and Mortensen called. The turn was the 
and again Mortensen checked before she led for 12,200. The river was the 
, completing a four flush, and Mortensen led out this time for 17,000. Mortensen's opponent thought for a bit before moving all in for 63,000. Mortensen had the chips counted out and ready to slide in but eventually opted to muck his hand. He slips to 70,000.
Lee Watkinson opened the button to 1,500, and Jonathan Duhamel three-bet to 4,275 from the small blind. Watkinson flatted, and off they went heads-up.
The dealer spread out a 
flop, and Duhamel continued out with a bet of 4,700. Watkinson considered, then shoved all in with his covering stack. The two cards Duhamel was holding couldn't have hit the muck any faster, and he's chosen to save 11,250 chips for a better spot.
Like, one where he hits the flop, for example.
We just caught the tail end of this put, but it did get us back in touch with the early-day chip leader, Nick Maimone.
The board showed 
, and there was about 9,000 in the pot when a player we don't recognize bet 7,500. Maimone had his full stack of about 35,000 out there as the covering stack, and his opponent was considering the call for his last ~10,000 or so. He spent a long while soaking in the tank, and he eventually grabbed his cards and lifted the corner of them as if he were about to muck them. He paused to gauge the reaction, though, then dropped his chips into the pot to call all in.
Maimone couldn't table his 
quickly enough, and that knockout has pushed him back up to about 68,000.
Jake Cody had 
had the chance to eliminate his opponent all in preflop against his 
. His opponent had 52,350 preflop, resulting in one the largest pots of the tournament so far, if not the largest. Lucky for him, the window card was the . Unlucky for him, the flop also came with the 
.
Receiving no more help, the large pot was shipped away from Cody. Not to worry though, he still has a very healthy 46,500 left.
Which do you want first? We'll go with the bad, but feel free to read this post backwards if you want it the other way around.
Dwyte Pilgrim has just been eliminated.
We lost track of T.K. Miles and assumed he was busto. He's just reappeared on our radar with 33,500 chips.
The tournament giveth one, and the tournament taketh one away.
