After earlier knocking out Gus Hansen, Tommy Hang has now eliminated Phil Galfond from the tournament as well in a razz hand.
Galfond was sitting in Hansen's old seat, in fact, and down to just a few thousand when he saw Hang complete with an showing. Galfond raised all in with an , and when it got back around Hang called.
They tabled their cards — / for Hang, and / for Galfond.
Hang ended up drawing with his remaining cards for an 8-6-4-2-A. Meanwhile Galfond kept picking up eights — — to end with an 8-7-6-3-2 and hit the rail with about 83 players still left.
Still just hours removed from his runner-up in Event #52: $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em (Six-Handed), Galfond tweeted afterwards that last evening's finish may have been occupying his thoughts some today:
"I'm drawing completely dead," Matusow said aloud after fifth street was put out. Indeed he was. Sixth and seventh were run out for good measure as Matusow said goodbye and exited the tournament area.
Meanwhile, we also noticed that Daniel Negreanu is no longer with us, though his elimination came back in Level 9.
Todd Brunson was just all in and at risk following a flop for his last 80,000 or so. His opponent, Barry Greenstein, held . But Brunson's prospects were bright as he had and had flopped a set.
The turn was the and river the , and Brunson survived.
"It's Canada Day," we heard an excited Greg "FBT" Mueller at the start of Day 2.
Mueller, a former hockey player, hails from Canada and is proudly celebrating the national day of Canada, known in French as Fête du Canada, bu wearing a loud Canada shirt.
We'd have written about this earlier, but alas we had to wait for a decent picture to do Mueller's patriotism justice.
For those who don't know, Canada celebrates July 1, 1867, the day the Constitution Act (AKA British North America Act) was enacted. The act united three colonies into a single country (present day Canada).
So from all of us at PokerNews, and Mueller himself, HAPPY CANADA DAY!