Jason Curran shoved all in from middle position for 14,600 and right behind him, Brett Halladay also announced that he was all in; Everyone else got out of the way and they were heads up. Curran was the player at risk and his needed to improve against the of Halladay.
The flop of provided a sweat, but the board ran out , Halladay took the pot and Curran busted.
Halladay did mention that he's related to retired Major Leaguer Roy Halladay. "Some sort of super-distant blood cousin," he said.
She sent Ty Stewart to the rail and now she is heading to the same direction, albeit $977 richer. Danielle Barille got the remainder of her stack in with and was looked up by pocket queens. There was no help on a dry board and we are down to less than 75 players. An updated list of all participants in the money will be available in the next break.
We have lost six players in the money and one of those eliminations was Lee Davy. He open shoved from late position for 17,000 with the . On the button, Cameron Tullis made the call with and the flop immediately delivered an ace.
Nicholas Nadeau is the first casualty in the money. He moved all in with and got isolated one seat further by . The on the turn proved to be deadly for Nadeau as it completed the nut flush for his opponent.
Mike Connors opened for 2,400 and was called by big stack Jay Graunstadt. The two players saw a flop of . Connors checked and when Graunstadt bet 6,000 Connors moved all in.
Graunstadt quickly called and when the tournament director arrived he instructed them to turn over their hands.
Connors
Graunstadt
Graunstadt had flopped the straight. The turn and river saw all the remaining players make the money.
Commiserations to Connors who was disappointed but extremely gracious in defeat, informing PokerNews that he was a dealer at Harrah’s and when he wasn’t dealing he liked to play a ton of MTTs on WSOP.com under the username “ValueTown” where he's had an account since Jan 19th.
Charompol CJ Hongthong was leading the flop for 5,000 and both Mo Nuwwarah as well as David "Four Racks" Luttbeg made the call to see the on the turn. CJ fired 15,000 and Nuwwarah moved all in, Luttbeg did so as well for his last 29,600. CJ ended up folding a straight and flush draw as per table chat.
Luttbeg:
Nuwwarah:
The river didn't let the bubble burst, it was also the very last hand prior to hand for hand mode came into effect.