Tyron Krost's stack is up to 102,000 at the expense of neighbor Adam Fletcher who is down to 26,500 after making a bigger full-house than him. Fletcher raised to 3,600 from the button and was called by Krost in the SB to go to a 
flop. Fletcher c-bet for 6,000 and was called before both checked through the 
turn. The river came 
and Krost led for 6,000 and was called quickly. Krost tabled 
for a bigger house than Fletcher's 
.
Arnaud Mattern opened to 4,000 from early position, and Stephen Elias three-bet to 9,200 in position. Mattern took a long peek at his opponents's remaining stack (it looked like 37,100 to our eyes) and flicked the call into the pot.
The flop came 
, and Mattern check-shoved after Elias bet away 8,000 more of his chips. He took a long look at things, but he eventually surrendered, and the crafty Mattern is stacking more chips. We'll count him down in a minute, but we'll guess he's got about 180,000 now.
"Hey, Daniel!" shouted Freddy Deeb from the neighbouring table. "We've lost the only player better than you?"
"Who?" replied a confused Negreanu. "Hellmuth?"
"No, Barry [Shulman], you'll be OK now."
Nick Schulman opened to 3,700 from UTG and got one caller before McLean Karr reraised to 14,700 from late position. Schulman asked Karr how much he had behind, which was roughly 40,000 more.
Schulman made it 36,500 and the caller folded. Karr sighed and put his stack in, flipping 
against Schulman's 
The board came 
and Schulman now has 280,000, a stack to rival Ivey's.
Daniel Negreanu reached the river of a 
board where he led out of position for 6,000. JC Tran mulled over his options for a minute before raising to 21,000.
Clearly perplexed by the raise, Negreanu was visibily frustrated and fidgeted in his seat like a fish out of water as he tried to recall the hand.
"Why would you check the turn? I don't get it, JC," he mused. "I can't figure out a hand where you'd check the turn."
"I'm going to need a minute here," he warned. "I've changed my mind seven times."
In the end, he settled on a fold, but was unsure as to whether or not he'd made the right move. "I'm not gonna sleep," he concluded.
Negreanu drops a rung to 110,000.
First into the pot, Marius Torbergsen opened to 3,800, and JP Kelly called right next door. All the way around in the small blind, Anton Wigg stacked out a reraise, and he made it 14,300 total. Torbergsen took his pause before adding another seven red chips to his own bet to make it a reraise to 38,800 straight. That sent JP Kelly fairly deep into the think tank, though he reluctantly folded after some time. Wigg announced an all in for 61,700, and Torbergsen quickly called the remainder to put his man at risk. Cards up, gents:
Wigg:
Torbergsen: 
Phil Ivey asked JP Kelly, "Queens?" A nod of confirmation from Kelly satisfied Ivey's curiosity as Wigg stood up to sweat his fate.
The flop was clean, coming 
. The turn 
was an awfully out-y card as it gave Torbergsen another twelve outs to the knockout. The river 
was safe (and ugly for Kelly), though, and that's a big double up for the Swede. He's all the way up to about 130,000 now.
From the cutoff seat, Phil Ivey raised to 4,000. Matt Stout made the call from the big blind and the two were off to a flop. Don't get too excited though because after the flop of 
, Stout check-folded to a 6,000-chip continuation bet from Ivey, making him just another customer to the Ivey store.
Stephen Elias open-pushed from late position for around 25,000 and Mike Matusow called out of the blinds.
Elias: 
Matusow: 
Elias ran good enough that he flopped a flush when the board came 
and then made two pair as well on the turn and 
river. Elias is up to 50,000 while Matusow dropped to 41,000.
Jani Sointula raised to 3,600 from middle position and had about 24,000 behind. Nick Schulman made the call from the big blind and the flop came down . Both players checked to see the fall on the turn. Both checked again and the fell on the river. Schulman fired 5,200 and Sointula called. Schulman tabled the 
and Sointula mucked, dropping to about 19,000. He is still the tournament's short stack while Schulman moved to 290,000 and is one of the big stacks.
