The Brasilia Room is just a few more table breaks away from tumble weed flying past the rail. These are three of the largest stacks in the room with just four tables remaining.
A.J. Jejelowo opened to 9,000 on the button and Derek Gregory three-bet to 26,000 from the big blind. Jejelowo came right back over the top to 66,000, Gregory called, and the flop fell .
Both checked to see the turn where Gregory fired 65,000. A call from Jejelowo landed the river. Gregory checked it to Jejelowo who promptly slid out about 340,000, putting Gregory to the test for his remaining 180,000-ish.
After about two minutes in the tank, Gregory gave it up.
There was about 45,000 in the middle and the board read when Sam Holden checked, his opponent bet 15,000, and Holden called. The turn brought the , Holden checked, and his opponent thought about 15 seconds before checking behind.
The river brought the , and both players checked somewhat quickly. Holden turned over , and nodded as he saw his opponent's .
On the last hand before Eric Buchman's table broke he got involved in decent pot. We picked up the action on the flop of and Buchman check-called 30,000.
The turn brought the and both players checked. The river brought the , Buchman bet 45,000 and his opponent called after a few short moments.
Buchman tabled and his opponent reluctantly showed .
The ESPN crews are filming throughout the Blue section of the Amazon room for the television broadcast, but we were able to obtain a few chip counts from players in that section.
Also, we were able to catch big stack A.J. Jejelowo raise to 9,000 from the button. The small blind called and the flop fell . Jejelowo's opponent checked and Jejelowo continued for a bet of 14,000. The continuation bet caused Jejelowo's opponent to fold and he was able to take down the pot. This win puts him at 1,000,000 in chips.
We saw a swarm of cameras and rail birds surrounding Daniel Negreanu's table, so we went over to check out what was going on. We saw that there was about 65,000 in the middle, and a board that read . Negreanu's opponent had bet out 36,000, and Negreanu was in the tank when we arrived.
He started to talk through the hand, and said that quads didn't make sense. He couldn't quite put his opponent on a hand, but he tossed in the call anyways. His opponent showed that he had all of the board, as he tabled . Negreanu mucked his hand, dropping him to 84,000.
On the very next hand, Negreanu squeezed by moving all in after an 8,000 raise and a call, but he got no action. That move got him back up to over 100,000.