With a raise to 2,600 from middle position, Carter Gill decided to flat call in the cutoff to see a flop of .
Both players checked and the turn brought the . Again it was checked to Gill who this time took a stab with a bet of 3,000. His opponent made the call the the river was the . Action checked to Gill who fired a healthy 12,000 with his opponent looking him up.
Gill tabled an ambitious for trip treys to scoop the pot. He's up to 175,000.
Vanessa Rousso had somehow got all the way to the river of the board by the time we caught up with her going all in for 37,000 into a 22,000 pot. Giovanni Rizzo made the call in the big blind, but mucked when Rousso turned over for a rivered gutshot.
A raising war between JP Kelly (button) and a gentleman we think was Guy Longworth (big blind) resulted in Kelly four-betting enough to put Longworth all in. Longworth thought about it long and hard, and eventually made what was a very good call.
Longworth:
Kelly:
The poker gods do not always respect good calls, though, and Longworth announced, "F***," with considerable feeling as Kelly paired up on the flop.
Board:
Longworth hit the rail, and tablemates and fellow Brits Barny Boatman and Dan Carter gave Kelly slightly funny looks as he innocently stacked up the chips.
Lacey Jones has just been eliminated from the tournament. She was all in preflop with the for her last 13,300 and up against the from her opponent. After the board ran out , it was time for Jones to say her goodbyes and head to the rail.
Captain Tom Franklin was just all in for his last 14,000 before the flop with and up against an opponent's .
The community cards came , and Franklin survived. Franklin -- who once finished seventh in the WSOP Main Event (in 1995) -- now sits with about 30,000.
Mike Mercaldo just shattered a dream for one unfortunate victim, his spiking a third snowman against on an teasing board. "That's never happened to me in my life," he claimed as he began reconstructing his now 135,000 stack.
Eric Mizrachi returned to an above-average stack of 140,400 today. That would probably seem more special if not for the fact that three of his brothers also returned to today. And in fact all three of his brothers -- Michael, Robert, and Daniel -- came back to stacks of more than 200,000!
We just saw a small hand with Eric in which he and opponent checked down all three streets, with the final board showing . Mizrachi showed and his queen was good enough to give him the 8,000-chip pot.
Mizrachi has 148,000 now, very good relative to the rest of the field, but still trailing his brothers.
Paul Magriel and an opponent got all the chips in the middle when a flop came down . Magriel had bet the flop and called his opponent's all-in raise.
Magriel:
Opponent:
Magriel has flopped a set, which put him well ahead of the all-in player's kings. The turn was the , folowed by the on the river. With the elimination, Magriel is now up to 200,000 chips.
Darryll Fish had rebuilt his stack to 30,000 when he got it in with . Irv "Gotti" Lorenzo, played the enforcer with . The flop gave Fish a straight draw, but Gotti picked up a dangerous flush draw. And the on the turn gave Gotti the nuts and had Fish drawing dead. He made his exit after the on the river, and Gotti, founder of the record label Murder, Inc., stacked up 115,000.
Brandon Cantu just enjoyed a well-timed double-up.
We only saw the aftermath, with a board showing , Cantu having tabled , and a table full of players laughing about something. Well, all but one were laughing.