"Hennigan!" yelled out Jesse Martin from the table over to John Hennigan who was on the rail abut 25 feet away. Hennigan didn't hear him, though, so Martin tried again. "John!"
"What?" responded Hennigan with a turn of his head.
"Eat your heart out!" yelled Martin with a big smile on his face, pointing out that he was still alive in the event.
"He won the $50K," Phil Hellmuth tried to point out to Martin.
"It's a f***ing joke, Phil," said Martin with some laughter.
"If there was any justice in poker, I would be here as well," said Hennigan as he came closer to the rail.
"You're a pretty good H.O.R.S.E. player, but you gotta work on this game some more," commented Todd Brunson to Hennigan.
On fourth street James Obst bet and Henrik Hecklen called. On fifth Obst bet again and this time Hecklen folded to leave himself with just 60,000 chips.
"That's good for your reputation," commented Phil Hellmuth after Matt Grapenthien won a hand with a full house in which he raised Hellmuth on third street with a pair of threes and then beat out Steve Landfish in a big pot.
"Buddy, you better not show up light again or they'll barbecue you!" Hellmuth finished.
After Hellmuth completed the bet on third street and Orenstein called, Hellmuth fired bets on fourth street and fifth street. Orenstein only called on fourth, then folded on fifth to give Hellmuth the pot.
Hellmuth check-called a bet on fourth street, and then checked to Brunson on fifth. Brunson bet, and Hellmuth gave it up, but Brunson was kind enough to show him the from his down cards.
"I showed you respect, Phil," said Brunson. "I didn't three-bet you."
Picking up the action on fourth street, Yu and Hellmuth checked, then Brunson fired a bet. Yu and Hellmuth both called.
On fifth street, action checked around, and then on sixth street Yu led with a bet. Hellmuth called, and Brunson called.
On seventh, Yu and Hellmuth checked, and Brunson bet. Yu tanked for a little bit, then folded, and Hellmuth began to talk.
"Oh man, I hope you have trips," he said. "This is such a sick hand, I don't even want to pay it off."
"I guess you could have trips," said Hellmuth as he tossed in the call. Brunson showed the for a spade flush, and Hellmuth showed the table that he had made a straight.
"I can't f***ing believe it," commented Hellmuth, staying down at his losing straight. "Almost a straight flush."
Hellmuth went on a little more, talking about how it was a cooler of a hand. Brunson added that if it was a cooler, they both would've made a straight flush. Hellmuth fired back by saying something about later on when the chips really go in during a big pot, he'll really have it and Brunson will pay him off.
At any rate, Brunson climbed to over 1.1 million in chips as Hellmuth dipped back a bit to 320,000.
On fourth street Steve Landfish had a pair of fours showing and he bet, James Obst raised. Landfish three-bet and Obst called. On fifth Landfish bet and Obst called. On sixth and seventh the same process repeated itself.
Landfish: / /
Obst: / /
"Flush," Landfish announced and Obst sighed deeply when he saw being turned over.
"And you berate other players for how they play their hand?" Obst said.
The Australian, who's usually very quiet and to himself, referred to an earlier hand which Landfish did not recall.
"The hand with threes," Obst said, and both Phil Hellmuth and Matt Grapenthien remembered that one. Obst clearly wasn't happy with Landfish's play and the Aussie ends the day with a lot less than he had in mind.