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Omaha-8
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.
Omaha-8
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.
Razz
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.
Razz
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.
Juanda: (
) / 
/ (
)
Wheeler: () / 
/ ()
Both players made a nine but Wheeler took it down with his ninety-six. He doubles to about 140,000.
Stud
The stud rounds have been very good to Phil Ivey here today, and again he's used this round to make a surge up the chip count leaderboard with back-to-back pots.
After first taking a pot off John Juanda, Ivey was back in the thick of it against Ryan Hughes. Ivey check-called fourth, and led on fifth. Hughes was the aggressor on sixth before Ivey led again on the river.
Hughes: (X-X-X) / 
Ivey: (
) / 
Aces up for Ivey and suddenly he's back up to 660,000 with Hughes slipping back to 400,000.
Stud
Lisandro: X-X / 
/ X
Aldridge: X-X / 
/ X
Jeff Lisandro, who had been trending downwards since the dinner break, is almost flat-lining at this point. He went all the way to the river with Ken Aldridge. Aldridge completed third street and bet fourth street and fifth street. On fifth street, Lisandro check-raised and was called.
Both players checked sixth street. Down the river, Aldridge checked again, then called a bet from Lisandro. Aldridge showed for two pair, queens and fives, to drag the pot.
That hand crippled Lisandro. He folded one hand before being all in for 4,000 of the 5,000-chip ante. Lisandro won that hand without a sweat against Chad Brown, then was dealt split kings with an ace his next hand and won that hand too. He currently has about 60,000.
"I won a stud tournament once after being down to one chip," Lisandro told the table. Lisandro has some tough competition if he hopes to do that again.
Stud
Brent Wheeler's recent double-up was only able to stave off elimination a short while. He got all in on third street with split eights and was called by Bill Chen's split jacks. Chen made queens full of jacks by sixth street, which left Wheeler drawing dead. He leaves in 10th place, allowing the tournament to collapse to a "last" table of nine players before the next elimination sets the final table.
Here's how they lineup on this star-studded final table for the $3,000 H.O.R.S.E event:
Seat 1: Chad Brown - 634,000
Seat 2: David Baker - 406,000
Seat 3: Phil Ivey - 685,000
Seat 4: Bill Chen - 715,000
Seat 5: Albert Hahn - 345,000
Seat 6: Kenneth Aldridge - 470,000
Seat 7: Ryan Hughes - 380,000
Seat 8: John Juanda - 585,000
Seat 9: Jeff Lisandro - 50,000
We're not on the feature table of the Amazon Room for this event, as there's another event already scheduled over there, but there is a nice rail, three and four deep, as there's plenty of interest in this one! The cards are now back in the air!
Omaha 8
They redrew for the game and Omaha-8 was the winner at the start of this final table. Kenneth Aldridge took advantage with the first major pot.
He took a flop of with Albert Hahn and checked it over. Hahn made a bet and Aldridge called.
The turn was the and again the action went check, bet, call before the hit the river. Aldridge then led out with a bet and Hahn looked him up.
Aldridge tabled 
for a six-high straight and nut low to scoop. He moves up to 635,000 with Hahn down to 215,000.
Omaha-8
Chad Brown raised it up before John Juanda put in the three-bet. Brown made the call and they saw a flop of .
Juanda led out with a bet and Brown made the call. The turn was the 
and again Juanda's bet was met with a call from Brown. The river was the 
and Juanda fired a third barrel which was enough to force a fold from Brown.
