After a flop of and with 23,000 in the pot, Chris Moneymaker bets 9,000 from the small blind and Humberto Brenes calls from the big blind. Chris "Jesus" Ferguson then moves all in from the high jack for 71,000. Moneymaker tanks for a moment before making the call. Brenes gets out of the way.
Chris Ferguson shows for a pair with a open ended straight draw. Moneymaker has him in bad shape with . Jesus can only hit one card to win and only has about a 30% chance to split the pot.
The turn and river are blanks and Ferguson is eliminated. Meanwhile, Moneymaker appears to be one of the current chip leaders with 415,000.
On a flop of , Jay Rosenkrantz checked, Philippe Rouas bet 10,000, and Rosenkrantz called. The turn brought the . Rosenkrantz checked, Rouas bet 50,000, Rosenkrantz check-raised all in for 86,200, and Rouas called with the rest of his stack.
Rouas showed for the turned full house, meaning Rosenkrantz was drawing dead with his . Rouas is now up to 210,000, while Rosenkrantz has fallen to 11,000.
Three players saw a flop of . Isaac Haxton led out for 13,000 from UTG, Brandon Adams called from middle position, and the third player dropped out. The turn brought the . This time Haxton bet 25,000, and Adams raised all in to 50,000. Haxton snap-called, turning over for top pair and the flush draw. Adams showed for two pair.
The river was the , bringing Haxton his flush and eliminating Adams. Haxton now has chipped all of the way up to 324,000.
Earlier in the day, PokerNews reported about the toughest table in the room at table 70. In the past few hours it has become even more stacked with the addition of Bertrand Grospellier and Steve Billirakis
Table 70:
Seat 1: Scott Seiver
Seat 2: Scotty Nguyen
Seat 3: Phil Ivey
Seat 4: Brett Richey
Seat 5: David "The Dragon" Pham
Seat 6: Alan Sass
Seat 7: Phil Hellmuth
Seat 8: Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (replaces Corwin Cole)
Seat 9: Steve Billirakis (replaces Unfortunate unknown player)
A short-stacked Mikael Thuritz shoved all in for 8,000 from late position, and Greg "Fossilman" Raymer made the call from the button. The blinds folded, Thuritz showed and Raymer .
The flop came , putting Raymer in front. The turn was the and the river . Thuritz is out, and Raymer now has 152,000.
On a board of and with 53,000 in the pot, Andy Bloch faces a 40,000 bet from Alec "traheho" Torelli. Bloch tanks for several minutes before making the call. Torelli shows for fours full of queens. Bloch tosses his cards into the muck and Torelli takes it down.