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We arrived to see the cards on their backs, EPT Deauville champion Jake Cody slightly covering his opponent.
Cody: 
Even Shorter Stacked Opponent: 
Board: 
"Ai ai ai," complained tablemate Alexander Vecherkovski as the luckless short stack busted out and Cody improved to 50,000, "Yet again I fold the best hand of course."
We though pocket aces was a rather good one, but there's no pleasing some people.
There was about 12,000 in the pot and a flop of 
when both blinds checked to Joe Cada, who bet 7,000. Both blinds called and the 
appeared on the turn. All players checked to the 
on the river.
The small blind checked and the big blind bet 22,500. Cada seemed frustrated by the bet and tossed his cards into the muck. The small blind folded as well, giving the big blind the pot. Cada is sitting with around 110,000.
Fifth street had been dealt, and the board included three sixes -- 
. Phil Galfond, sitting in the small blind, had 37,500 sitting in front of him. That bet appeared to exceed the amount in the pot full of scrambled lavender, blue, yellow and orange chips that sat between him and his opponent in middle position.
His opponent tanked for a couple of minutes, then finally called. Galfond flipped over 
for quad sixes, and his opponent mucked.
"You're amazing, Phil!" said the player sitting to his left. Subsequent talk suggested the remark referred both to Galfond's good fortune and to his having gotten big value on his quads.
Galfond has moved up to 316,000 now.
David Williams was crippled with a small flush about 15 minutes ago, and we just watched him stand up and exit the room. His seat is empty, there are no chips on his slice of the felt, and one of the newest members of Team PokerStars is out.
There was 26,000 in the middle by the 
flop when the rest of the chips went in. It wasn't looking great for Michael Doumani - in fact it looked an awful lot like he'd just had his aces cracked.
Doumani: for aces
Big blind gentleman: 
for a set of jacks
Turn:
River: !
The aces-crackage was avoided at the last possible opportunity, and an extremely relieved Doumani was up to 272,000. The unlucky gent with the jacks had every right to feel sorry for himself as he hit the rail.
Kara Scott -- who finished 104th in the WSOP Main Event in 2008 and 238th in the ME in 2009 -- is doing what she can to make another deep run in this year's tournament.
With the board showing and about 12,000 in the middle, a player in middle position bet 3,000 and Scott made the call. Both then checked the 
river.
Scott showed , and her opponent mucked. She's sitting with about 108,000 at the moment.
We're not sure how it happened, but Patrik Antonius is sitting with a lot less chips. In a recent hand, he called a preflop raise from the big blind and saw a flop of 
.
He checked and his opponent in middle position bet 9,000. Antonius mucked and is sitting with about 85,000.
Johnny Chan was faced with a 5,500-chip bet from an opponent with the board reading 
. Chan called.
The turned and Chan's opponent led for 11,500. Rather than calling, Chan raised to 24,000 this time, inducing a fold from his opponent.
Chan is our chip leader once again with an astounding 580,000 chips.
Khamsy Nuanmanee opened to 2,600 from under the gun and Jon Kalmar three-bet the cutoff to 9,000.
With the action back on Nuanmanee, she moved all in and Kalmar made the call for his last 79,100.
Nuanmanee: 
Kalmar:
Unfortunately for Nuanmanee, the cooler hand saw Kalmar double through when the board was spread 
.
Nuanmanee is now down to 68,000 in chips.
Chad Batista was all in preflop for 19,000 with and was up against the 
of his opponent. The 
flop was no help and Batista was left looking for a jack. The 
on the turn was no help and neither was the on the river. Batista has been eliminated from the Main Event.
