The board is out and reads as . Sylvain Coeur and Christopher Olson are heads up.
Olson moves the last of his chips into the middle with but Coeur makes the call after hitting two pair with . Olson was so close to the money but will go home empty-handed.
Jack Effel comes over to Green 1 to settle a table dispute. A player accused David Dao of flashing cards to his neighbor, but it appeared that Dao was just peeking at them kind of high.
"Please do not flash cards to anyone, especially at this point in the tournament," says Effel. "We'd have to give you a warning, then a penalty. We're close to the money. This is serious business."
"This is serious. This is serious!" Effel repeats, this time laughing.
Paul Lieu's stack has just jumped up to 430,000 after he eliminated a player with pocket jacks. The other player's pocket tens failed to find a match on the board.
Fernando Gordo is one of our players who has failed to arrive yet. He currently has 32,000 from his starting stack of 137,000. Will his tight, solid game be enough to make it to the money?
Preflop, James Maltz raised to 9,000 and a middle-position player reraised to 24,500. Tommy Brown called all in from the button. He had only 15,700 behind. Maltz also called the raise.
On the flop of , Maltz check-folded to a bet from the middle-position player. Brown was all in for his tournament life with and his opponent held .
The turn fell the and river the and Brown tripled up to around 60,000 in chips.
After the hand, another player said, "The last time I saw Tommy play a hand, he had aces."
Karle Wilson, known far and wide for coming back from 60,300 to start the day, raises to 9,000 to start the hand, under the gun. Stefan Mattsson reraises to 32,300 in middle position. Wilson calls.
The flop is and Wilson checks. Mattsson bets 25,000 and Wilson raises to 75,000. Wilson calls.
They check the turn and river of -x. Wilson turns over and Mattsson turns over .
Wilson's hand wins and he climbs to 715,000 -- good for third in chips and not far from the chip lead. Mattsson falls to 201,000.