Last Break of the Night
Four levels in the books for today and only a half of one left to go. The players have made it this far and one can expect that many of the short stacks will be pushing in with greater frequency in order to double up or head home. Those with average stacks tend to tighter up and ride our the last little bit of time to make it to the next day causing play to slow down a little bit towards the end of a day. We fully expect that to happen here.
As for the action, we had plenty of that in the last level. John Hennigan crushed an opponent's dreams with his quad aces over the other player's full house and Ray Romano was eliminated by a player who rivered a straight flush.
Andrew Robl rode a roller coaster of a level, winning a nice pot with trip sevens, but dumping the chips back after an opponent hit a flush on his top pair.
As if that wasn't enough, there was some controversy involving Mel Judah where he got into an argument with both the dealer and floor staff over an ante. It made us think back to 2006 when Jeffrey Lisandro argued with Prahlad Friedman over an ante, but this one was squashed quickly.
Tyler Smith, was leading the way, but lost a big pot to Dwyen Ringbauer where he gave up the chip lead and slipped back below 100,000 in chips. Ringbauer has a field-leading 188,000 at last count.
This will be the last 20-minute break of the night and then the players will return to bang out only an hour of Level 5.