Jeff Madsen has just knocked out Danny Wong in very fortunate circumstances to move 194,000 in chips. The flop was out as 
before all the chips went in. Wong floppped a monster with 
for a full-house and Madsen revealed 
.
The turn came 
and river 
for running nines making Madsen a very unlikely bigger full-house. Wong sat stunned for a while and then staggered off.
At the the same time on table one Samuel Stein was taking care of Dan Shak. Shak was very short stacked.
Jeff Madsen fired away as Justin Smtih refused to budge until the river of a 
board, when his final 12,300 bet got a long pause and a reluctant-looking fold from Smith, upping his already second-place stack even further. But moments later and short-stacked Steve Jelinek was stacking a double up worth almost 40,000 chips, showing down 
on a 
board and undoing all his relentless work of the last half hour. Still, no real dent.
The chips went in preflop, and Rory Mathews went out shortly thereafter.
Mathews: 
Erik Friberg: 
Board: 
Friberg made a flush, and Mathews' tournament life was roasted.
We caught up with Chris Bjorin on the river of the 
board. He was betting out 10,000 from the small blind position.
A few seats to his left, Stuart Rutter thought about it for a little while, before raising pot - 29,000, with less than 2,000 in small denomination chips behind. He pushed the two stacks of chips confidently across the line - although the effect was rather spoiled when the chips collapsed into a small pile as he did so.
Regardless, Bjorin had to take the raise very seriously, and after a few minutes he opted to fold.
Current counts - Bjorin 200,000, Rutter 60,000.
Table 1
Seat 1: Andrew Miles - 32000
Seat 2: Yasuhiro Waki - 142600
Seat 3: Dan Shak - 21000
Seat 4: Willie Tann - 133000
Seat 5: Karl Mahrenholz - 74000
Seat 6: Michael Schwartz - 54000
Seat 7: Robin Keston - 55000
Seat 8: Samuel Stein - 73000
Seat 9: Jeff Lisandro- 51000
Table 2
Seat 1: Jeff Kimber - 43000
Seat 2: Barry Greenstein - 18000
Seat 3: Justin Smith - 62000
Seat 4: Rory Mathews - 30000
Seat 5: Erik Friberg - 40000
Seat 6: Jeff Madsen - 160500
Seat 7: Danny Wong - 52000
Seat 8: Steve Jelinek - 20000
Seat 9: Filipe Ramos - 40000
Table 3
Seat 1: Joe Serok - 45000
Seat 2: Scott Fishman - 60000
Seat 3: Paul Gardener - 34000
Seat 4: Chris Bjorin - 215000
Seat 5: John Racener - 42500
Seat 6: John Kabbaj - 115000
Seat 7: Stuart Rutter - 44000
Seat 8: Christopher Chau - 55500
Seat 9: Sean Dempsey - 18300
A threeway pot of substantial proportions boosted Christopher Chau back into the running: with the board standing 
Yasuhiro Waki bet 12k at which point Chau moved in for 3,800 more, called by Erik Friberg and Waki himself. The river was the and it took less than two seconds for Chau to show his 
and scoop the lot.
A double through to just shy of 100k now for John Kabbaj courtesy of Paul Gardner, who had in the last level performed an extraordinary feat of Comebackship getting over 120k in the process. Many a hand saw him pushing off opponents with timely raises or just winning at showdown and it looked like his earlier shaky period was over. But now a 
flop appears to have spelled disaster (I actually caught this hand once they were on their backs and the river was about to be dealt):
Kabbaj: 
Gardner: 
Turn and river: ... and a full new stack replenishes Kabbaj's chip meter.
The flop read 
when a brief potting war between Jeff Lisandro and Javed Abrahams broke out; it culminated with Abrahams all in.
Lisandro: 
Abrahams:
"That's so bad," said Lisandro, his myriad straight draws up against Abrahams' two pair.
Turn: bringing in the straight
River:
Abrahams quietly left the table.
"It wasn't so bad," mused Lisandro as he went; Lisandro is now up to around 100,000.
Down to 27 players, TD Jack Effel announced a redraw for the last three tables.
"What just happened?" asked an alarmed Justin Smith, seeing everyone standing up and removing his earphones for a moment.
Redraw shortly.
Brian Powell didn't quite make it to the three-table stage, calling a suspicious looking limp-reraise (or possibly min-raise-reraise) from Willie Tann before calling all in with on a potential-filled flop of . Tann sort of waved his hand around on the flop to indicate that he was setting his short-stacked opponent in, and when called revealed which held over the turn and river to bust Powell, who said something like, "Good luck gents," quietly as he left.
Now, amazingly, 6-max finalist Willie Tann has over 140k himself now, and the table of Previous Finalists keeps on bringing the action, unwilling to let a new batch of players have a go on a WSOPE final table, it appears.
Phil Laak's dreams of back-to-back bracelets has come to an end at the hands of Danny Wong. Wong opened to 3,800 to face a three-bet to 13,800 from Laak. Wong moved all-in and Laak made the call all-in. Showdown:
Wong:
Laak: 
The board ran to make a flush on the river for Laak but a full-house for Wong.
