With the board reading on the turn, Ronald Adams and Kevin Lang got it all in, Adams with and Lang with for straight and flush draws. The river came the and Lang hit the rail.
Tom Schaffer had only one move when he picked up . He immediately moved in his last 77,000 chips. Unfortunately for Schaffer, Mark Vos woke up with and made an easy call. His queens held up on a board of to send Schaffer to the cage.
Marc Fineman and Cristian Dragomir saw a flop of and moved all of their chips into the middle. Fineman was on the short stack with his but held the lead against the of Dragomir.
The turn was the and the river the , to give Fineman the double up with his king kicker. Fineman is up to 500,000 with Dragomir slipping to about 700,000.
David Saab got it all in preflop with and found himself up against Alan Jaffray's . The board came , and Saab moves up to 940,000. Jaffray is now down to 210,000.
"Mark Vos, watch out!" said Saab afterwards. "I'm coming for you." He's nearly there, as Vos (who's playing at another table on the other side of the room) is just over a million at the moment.
Robert Ford and Mike Blocksidge got into a preflop raising war, Ford ending up all in with vs. Blocksidge's . The flop was , the turn was the , but the spiked on the river to snap off Blocksidge's kings. He was crippled to only 25,000 while Ford raked in the 980,000 pot.
On a subsequent hand, Blocksidge open-shoved for the rest of his chips and Brandon Becker called. Blocksidge held to Becker's . It just wasn't Blocksidge's day, as the flop came down , Becker hitting two pair. The turn was the , the river was the and Blocksidge was eliminated. Becker is now up to 390,000.
Brian Lamanna opened with a preflop raise to 18,000 before Peter Neff reraised to 100,000 from the big blind. Lamanna made the call with his tournament on the line.
Lamanna:
Neff:
The board fell to give Neff a pair of aces and dash the hopes of Brian Lamanna.
After Ross Smith raised to 15,000 on the button Chris Barrile reraised to 61,000 from the small blind. Lanini Davor then reraised to 121,000 from the big blind. That's when Smith brought out the heavy artillery and moved all in for 310,000. Barrile folded, Davor folded, and Smith pulled in a big pot without ever seeing the flop. He's now up to 500,000.