A player open-shoved from early position. Cherie Beasley reshoved on the button. The early position player, who was in seat one flipped over threes and almost mucked his cards. They were pretty much in the muck in fact, but his hand was still on them. The table stopped him making a mistake, and Beasley tabled .
The board rolled out giving Beasley a flush and sending her opponent to the pay out desk.
"I should have mucked them," her opponent said walking away.
The short-stacked player in mid position shoved, and it folded around to the big blind. The dealer thought the hand was over and pulled the all-in player's hand into the muck. At this point it became apparent that the big blind still had live cards, and the floor was called over. The all-in player's hand was retrieved from the muck, but he said that only one of the cards he got back had been his - he said he'd had offsuit. The floor retrieved another card that was near the top of the muck but that wasn't his either.
In the end it was ruled that the player who had gone all in could fold the two random cards he'd been given, but would have to give up 2,400 as a blind. That's a lot when you have just 13,000 behind. Nevertheless, that's what happened, and the hapless player was left even shorter than before.
There was a short delay in restarting owing to "technical difficulties." We're not sure what that's about, but we suspect it was a minor glitch with payouts. Cards are back in the air now. 140 players remain, and whether this stays a three day event or runs to four remains to be seen.
Christopher Kolla is up to 165,000 after knocking out a shortie who shoved for around 25,000 under the gun. Kolla made the cal with and was well ahead of the all-in player's . The board ran out a harmless and the unfortunate shortie became an unfortunate bustee.
There was a raise to 7,400 in late position which Gabe Costner called in the cutoff. The big blind shoved for 53,600 and the original raiser folded, but Costner made the call and they were on their backs.
We're having computer difficulties with the payout system. The clock is stopped with 44 minutes left in this level. The tournament director requested that we take a 20-minute break, but the request was denied - at first. While writing this however, it was announced that we are in fact taking a 20-minute break. Fault technology for this one folks.