The very next hand, Hellmuth doubled up Gregorich again, putting him up to around 50,000. Hellmuth to the TD: "Can you make the dealer release the deck every hand?"
Fifth street has just been dealt and Spencer Lawrence leads out for 3,000 with his board reading . Yuval Bronshtein is his opponent and he raises to 6,000 with a board.
Lawrence makes the call and then receives and Bronshtein get a . Lawrence leads out again and again get raised by his opponent. Once more he makes the call and the two players receive their last card face-down.
Lawrence check-calls this time but mucks when he sees Bronshtein's hole cards of .
That puts Bronshtein's stack up to 63,000 whereas Lawrence is down to 23,000.
Showing up, Hellmuth bet out. Mark Gregorich, showing , raised. Hellmuth, clearly furious, ripped out his iPod headphones and cursed most offensively and personally in a manner not reportable on Pokernews. "I might have to take you out for this," he warned, and threw his cards back to the dealer. Gregorich couldn't quite hide a little smirk as he raked the chips in.
TD's Steve and Charlie have had a word with the players about finishing early for the night. It's clear that we're not going to reach a final eight tonight, the question was just about when to stop play.
There were a few mixed feeling amongst the players but the end of this level seemed a good a time as any as that's the time agreed.
Disaster for Erik Albinsson as he is virtually felted by Sherkhan Farnood. Farnood bet all the way down to fifth street and called Albinsson's bet on sixth. Come seventh, which they both checked, Albinsson had just 3,800 behind when Farnood showed his hand, and Albinsson just mucked.
Farnood:
Albinsson: up
However, Albinsson had a lucky double up courtesy of Farnood the very next hand, and the hand after that he was was doubled up again by Phil Hellmuth. He's currently hanging in with around 24,000.
After a series of disastrous hands, during which he has become increasingly worked up, Phil Hellmuth is down to 50,000 and it looks as though it might be approaching his bedtime. He has once again demanded that the TD's instruct the dealers in how to do their job according to, "Correct procedure," and has now wandered across to the other table to share his woe with Howard Lederer. "Might not make it 19 minutes, bud," he laments.
One player who'll be happy we're finishing early is Isaac Haxton. He's already stated to table mates he's feeling tired and this maybe affecting his decisions as he's just lost another pot to Yuval Bronshtein.
Haxton's final board read and Bronshtein's read .
Bronshtein bet out once more at the end and Haxton shook his head several times and made a call but mucked upon seeing his opponent's hidden for three queens.
Haxton short on 32,000. Bronshtein's hovering around 120,000.