Gavin Griffin raised from under the gun to 4,500. Eugene Katchalov was in the small blind and made the call. Erick Lindgren also called from the big blind.
The flop came down and Katchalov checked. Lindgren checked as well and then Griffin fired out 9,900. Katchalov folded before Lindgren put in a check-raise to 22,000. Griffin made the call.
The fell on fourth street and Lindgren bet 37,000 into his opponent. Griffin wasn't ready to go anywhere just yet and made the call.
After the river completed the board with the , Lindgren bet 58,000. Griffin called once again, but couldn't beat the bottom set Lindgren held when he revealed the .
Griffin lost the pot and dropped to 85,000 while Lindgren moved up to 360,000 in chips.
From the hi-jack, Phil Ivey entered the pot with a raise to 5,100.
Patrik Antonius was deep in thought before sliding into the pot a raise of 16,000 to force the blinds to fold.
As Ivey continued to shuffle ten purple 500-denomination chips, and Antonius' gaze lay fixed on Ivey's right hand, Ivey froze the shuffle and leant back in his chair.
Looking at his chip stack before making a few adjustments, Ivey eventually opted to toss his cards high and into the muck while slipping to 44,000.
As Antonius pushed his cards to the muck and started to stack his 170,000-chip stack that was methodically aligned and sorted, Ivey lent back over his stack and returned to shuffling his chips while fixing a gaze on Antonius that - to us humble PokerNews bloggers - read along the lines of stop owning me Patrik!
Randy Dorfman raised to 4,400 from the hijack seat. Michael Egan reraised from the next spot in the cutoff seat to 12,000. Dorfman folded and lost this one. Even so, he's still sitting on the chip lead with 380,000 in his stack.
A player in early position raised to 5,000 and Chris Moorman decided to three-bet to 12,500. The original raiser came back with a four-bet to 35,000 and Moorman couldn't stand the heat. He folded and lost the pot.
We've just located another big stack in the room and this one belongs to [Removed:248]. He's up to 352,000, which by our counts has him in third place currently.
Eric Assadourian raised to 4,500, but was forced to fold after the big blind three-bet to 9,500. "Of course I don't have anything," said Assadourian as he tossed his hand into the muck. "Please raise me next time I raise and put me out of my misery!"
Assadourian is always a playful one at the table, but he doesn't have much play left in his stack. Still, he's grinding away at 28,000.
After the button raised to 4,800, big stack Randy Dorfman called from the big blind and the flop came down . Dorfman checked and his opponent bet 6,400. Dorfman made the call.
The turn brought the and both players checked to see the fall on the turn. Dorfman checked and his opponent fired 9,500. Dorfman called, but mucked when his opponent tabled the .
Dorfman slipped to 355,000 and that looks like it puts him behind Erick Lindgren for the chip lead.
Ronnie Shabtay made it 15,000 to go on a flop of before Erick Lindgren moved all in.
Shabtay made the call for his tournament life and final 100,600 holding to be in the lead against the drawing of Lindgren.
Unfortunately for the Team Full Tilt Poker member, the turn and river landed the and to see him double Shabtay to 235,000 as Lindgren slips to the very same mark.
and Katchalov checked. Lindgren checked as well and then Griffin fired out 9,900. Katchalov folded before Lindgren put in a check-raise to 22,000. Griffin made the call.
fell on fourth street and Lindgren bet 37,000 into his opponent. Griffin wasn't ready to go anywhere just yet and made the call.
, Lindgren bet 58,000. Griffin called once again, but couldn't beat the bottom set Lindgren held when he revealed the 
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. Dorfman checked and his opponent bet 6,400. Dorfman made the call.
fall on the turn. Dorfman checked and his opponent fired 9,500. Dorfman called, but mucked when his opponent tabled the 
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flop.
to be in the lead against the drawing 
of Lindgren.
and 
to see him double Shabtay to 235,000 as Lindgren slips to the very same mark.
as Solomon moved to 160,000 and White dropped to 200,000.