Now that we have reached the money, players are no longer permitted to wear headphones or listen to their iPods at the table per WSOP rules. Bose headphone aficionado Chad Brown was none too happy about this rule, and complained about it to the Tournament Director.
"It's not a televised tournament. The rule doesn't make sense at the Circuit Events," Brown said.
Boulos Estafanous raised to 6500 pre-flop and James Hoeppner called. The flop was , Estafanous checked, Hoeppner bet 10,000 and Estafanous folded K-K face up. Hoeppner showed his opponent his cards in return... J-T for a complete bluff.
Eugene Todd raced past the 200K mark and is sitting on a stack worth over 240K. He took a big chunk of Cory Carroll's stack. Carroll has slipped out of the Top 5 in chips.