Allen Cunningham raises, and Hellmuth makes the call from the button. Josh Arieh also calls before Donnacha O'Dea reraises the pot from the big blind. Cunningham and Hellmuth pass but Arieh makes the call.
Arieh sets O'Dea in for his last 6,250 and the Irishman readily calls flipping , while Arieh needs to hit with his straight flush draw since he's holding . But bricks come on the turn and river as O'Dea makes deuces full to put him on around 25,000.
Nick Gibson has just been eliminated from the tournament by fellow pro Roy Brindley.
David Benyamine and Gibson both limped into the pot from early position and when the action got around to Brindley, he made it 2,200 to go. Both blinds folded and both Benyamine and Gibson called.
The flop came and Benyamine stuck a 1,500 feeler-bet out there. Gibson called and Brindley kicked it up to 5,000. The Frenchman folded and Gibson made the call.
The fell on the turn and Gibson passed the first action to Brindley who asked how much Gibson had left (about 10,000). Brindley then fired a 5,500 bet and Gibson called once more.
The last card off the deck was the and Gibson checked again, only to watch Brindley put him all in with a 5,900 bet. Gibson made the call for less and Brindley announced, "Queen high (clubs)," as he turned over . Gibson took one last look at his cards and nodded his head, conceding defeat.
Karl 'Mantis' Mahrenholz is another casualty after check-raising all-in for 6,400 on a after Chris Bjorin had bet 2,000. Bjorin made the call and flipped and Mahrenholz needed to hit some clubs, nine or a king as he turned . The turn was the giving Bjorin the other nut flush draw and giving Mahrenholz a gutshot, but the river was the . Two pair for both, but Bjorin's was the better to give him the pot.
The pace, when you've been used to HORSE for a couple of days, is quite frantic. You look up, and someone who was sitting somewhere has been replaced by someone completely different. Here are a few you won't be seeing more of after the current dinner break:
Mike Matusow
Marc Zaicik
Alan Stadler
Sylvester Geoghegan
Jorian Engelbrektsson
Irish legend Padraig Parkinson has eliminated a player suspected to be Sandro Mescola almost as soon as players returned from the break.
Mescola made it 6,500 from the button on a flop. David Williams in the small blind gave it up, but Padraig Parkinson, in the under the gun position, raised all in to cover Mescola. Mescola called, and he was woefully behind.
Josh "JJ Prodigy" Field is no longer in our field for today's event, after running into Roy "The Boy" Brindley; it looks as though the chips found their way in preflop. "Oops," commented Brindley as Field made his exit.