Well there is now one less bracelet winner left in the field after Shannon Shorr eliminated Daniel Idema. The two players got all the chips in the middle preflop, with Shorr holding , and Idema having . The board ran down , and Idema stood up from the table and wished everyone good luck.
After collecting that knockout, Shorr's stack jumped up to 215,000.
"You just missed it man" said Charania as we approached table 445, "I just coolered someone!" Charania told us he had opened with pocket aces to 8,000 under the gun. Cy Watson had three bet right behind him to 20,000 and another player had made the cold four bet to 40,000. Charania made it 78,000 to go and Watson had pushed. The cold four better had folded his queens but Charania of course made the call. Watson tabled pocket kings but didn't get lucky. Charania now plays almost 450,000.
We missed the precise preflop action but according to Mohsin Charania someone limped under the gun. The player in the hijack position raised it up but that was just the beginning of it. Zimnan Ziyard on the button made it 15,500 to go and Robert Brewer in the small blind bumped it up to 35,000. The limper folded but the hijack shoved all in for 153,500. Ziyard also went all in, for 114,000, and the decision was back on Brewer. He thought for a while but eventually folded, pocket tens he said.
The hijack had while Ziyard was in the driver's seat with . The flop was a little scary with but the on the turn and on the river were harmless.
At the last break, Lanny Levine, who at the time just had 25,000, joked with us that he would soon have 100,000. Well we walked by his table, and saw that he had done well more then that, as he now had 250,000! According to him, he doubled through Shannon Shorr when he held on a flop. The money ended up getting in on the river, and Shorr had an inferior jack. Shorr is still in despite the hit, as he has 105,000.
Last night on the money bubble, there was one player who had blinded down to just 1,500 chips. He was going to be in the big blind on the next hand, but fortunately for him, a player busted, and he dodge the potentially crippling big blind. That man was Robert Hummel, and he had his work cut out for him today. With 198 players coming back, he was in 197th place, but amazingly, with just 39 players still alive, Hummel is one of them. He is still a short stack with 40,000 and the blinds at 3000-6000, but to get this far he clearly knows how to play the short stack. How much further can Hummel go?
On the first hand back from the dinner break, Travell Thomas secured a huge double up to catapult him towards the top of the leader board. We were only able to jot down the hands after the fact, but Thomas held on a flop of . Lanny Levine had , and was in dire straits going to the turn. He was drawing dead when the hit, and the meaningless river was the .
Levine dropped to 103,000 after that hand, while Thomas jumped up to 245,000.
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. The board ran down 
, and Idema stood up from the table and wished everyone good luck.
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