Gary Chau took up against a short-stacked all in player holding . The flop was a monster for him as it came . The turn turned that monster into a gigantic T-Rex as it was the to give him quads. Chau clapped his hands together in celebration as the dealer put out the meaningless .
"What you didn't want a four out there for a sweat?" joked Tony Cousineau.
It was the classic cooler that saw Matt Woodward head to the rail with pocket kings for 100,000 in chips. Tony Cousineau had the only starting hand that beat him in and no king showed up on the board.
S Svedberg lost a lot of chips early on but just doubled up again for 38,500. He moved all in from early position and found a customer in the player in the big blind with . Svedberg held and stayed ahead as the board ran out .
Among the early eliminations we noticed Minho Choe after getting his stack in preflop with . It was table neighbor Arpad Balazs who looked him up with and Balazs won the flip on the board.
With 125,000 already in the pot and a board of , Xiao Peng announced that she was all in and tossed a T25,000 chip and two T500 chips into the middle. Her opponent, Joseph Liberta, sat quietly, playing the hand through his head.
"How much do you have," he finally said after about a minute in the tank. Peng, stacked her chips neatly so Liberta could eye it and he responded "that's good."
A few more seconds of thought and Liberta let it go.
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A total of $499,056 was raised for the One Drop charity in the $1,111 Little One for One Drop at the 2014 World Series Of Poker and the 102 hopefuls remaining chase an even bigger payout with the payday of $637,539 for a first-place finish.
Leading the field is Charbel Azzi (514,000) as only player above half a million in chips, but not too far behind are Alexander Ziskin (480,000), Julian Parmann (471,500) and Matthew Lapossie (458,000).
Other notables include Eric Baldwin (298,000), Sergio Castelluccio (291,500) and Salvatore Bonavena (255,000) from Italy, 2014 bracelet winner Asi Moshe (252,500), Joep van den Bijgaart (249,500), Maurice Hawkins (236,000), Sunday Million champion Jose Carlos Garcia (234,500), EPT champion Michael Tureniec (219,500), Brian Pinkus (215,000), Kevin Eyster (191,500) and Brett Shaffer (190,000).
Tony Cousineau has scored his ninth cash at the 2014 WSOP and will be among the short stacks when play resumes at 1 p.m. Las Vegas time in the Amazon Tan section. The blinds restart at 3,000-6,000 with a running ante of 500 and the PokerNews live reporting will deliver all the crucial action on our way to crown another golden bracelet winner.