Kara Scott has slipped back under 100,000 to a below average stack when she just now found herself all in on the turn with the board showing . Scott held for top pair and a double-gutter, but her opponent had for a set of jacks.
The river brought the , and Scott has been eliminated.
Jesper Hougaard is now becoming a major threat in this year's Main Event. He just eliminated a player with versus on a board. His pyramid of chips is now up to 397,000.
Josh Brikis is now sitting with 360,000 chips after a double up through Johnny Chan. We missed the hand, but Brikis was kind enough to let us in on the action.
According to Brikis, Chan opened to 4,000 and Brikis called in the cutoff. The flop fell and Chan led for 7,700. Brikis raised to 17,500, Chan re-raised to 33,200 and Brikis called.
The turn was a and Chan led for 50,000. Brikis called.
Chan fired yet another bullet after the rivered, putting Brikis all in and Brikis called with for a set of sevens.
There are still four Mizrachi brothers left in this event. Robert is leading the charge for the family. He's up to 414,000 after dragging yet another pot. He opened to 4,400 from the cutoff and was called by the button. Mizrachi continued for 5,500 on a queen-high flop, . The button player called.
Both players checked when the turn paired the board, . A river of brought a bet of 14,600 from Mizrachi. His opponent called again and saw that he had been rivered by Mizrachi's , which made a full house.
There was about 12,000 in the pot and a flop of when Patrik Antonius checked and the button bet 7,000. Antonius made the call as the fell on the turn.
Both players checked and the a small card appeared on the river. Antonius checked and the button bet 10,000. Antonius thought about it for a minute or so before making the call, only to muck when he saw the of the button.
Jesper Hougaard has bumped his stack up high as a kite - to 420,000 in fact.
The latest bit of bumpage came when a short stack moved in with and found Hougaard holding . The board ran out a five-free and the shortie busted out. The Hougaard stack got even bigger than before.
With the board reading , Robert Varkonyi's opponent checked and Varkonyi fired a bet of 25,000 into a pot of about 35,000. His opponent thought a while, then let it go.
Varkonyi has bounced back a bit and now has 156,000.
With 100,000 already in the pot, Gabe Costner bet 56,500 into a board of . His opponent made the call before mucking upon seeing Costner's . Costner up to 260,000.
Kelly Kim was in the hijack and raised to 3,800 only to have Phil Galfond re-raise to 10,700 from the button. Kim went all in for 22,600 more and Galfond snap-called.
Kim:
Galfond:
Kim couldn't have liked his chances, but the flop brought giving him a little hope. The on the turn didn't change anything, but the came on the river and doubled Kim up