John Juanda completed before Brent Wheeler raised. Juanda deliberated for some time before re-raising to put his opponent all in, and he made the call.
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Both players made a nine but Wheeler took it down with his ninety-six. He doubles to about 140,000.
The hand itself was not that exciting. Jeff Lisandro completed third street with a trey and was called by David Baker with a four. Baker caught a baby on fourth street to Lisandro's brick, bet it, and took down the pot. But the hand was emblematic of how things are going for Lisandro. He's down to about 100,000 chips after losing the omaha hand against Chad Brown and then losing a series of small pots after that.
During the Omaha-8 round Phil Ivey has been very active, raising up most pots preflop. Ivey twice chopped with the short-stacked Brent Wheeler, before losing a chunk of change to John Juanda.
Juanda raised the button and Ivey three-bet the small blind. Juanda called and they saw a flop of . Ivey led out and Juanda raised. Ivey gave it up to slip back to 200,000. Meanwhile Juanda is looking strong with around 800,000.
The first blow after dinner on the feature table belongs to Chad Brown. He bet every street of a board. Jeff Lisandro, sitting in position, called each bet. At showdown, Brown tabled the nuts -- , a Broadway straight. Lisandro flashed , a king-high straight, before mucking.
Bill Chen raised it up from the button and Phil Ivey defended with a call in the big blind.
The flop landed and Ivey check-called the bet from Chen. The hit the turn and Ivey decided to lead out. Chen made the call and the hit the river.
Ivey checked and Chen quickly checked behind tabling for a busted straight-flush draw, that ended with a lonely pair of nines. It was enough as Ivey tossed his cards into the muck.
Ivey is down to 180,000 with Chen approaching 700,000.
The end for Dan Makowsky was just as brutal as some of the hands that made him short to begin with. He raised pre-flop before David Baker three-bet from the small blind. Makowsky made it four bets and Baker called.
On a flop of , Baker led into Makowsky, then called Makowsky's all-in raise. Baker showed unimproved and was drawing thin against Makowsky's pocket queens, . An promptly spiked on the turn, causing an anguished Makowsky to immediately put his hands on top of his head, turn around, and took a few paces away from the table. The on the river did not improve Makowsky. He's been eliminated in 11th place.