John Spadavecchia limped in, Tyson Marks completed from the small blind, and Michael Cooper checked his option in the big blind. The dealer fanned , and all three players checked.
The turn was a repeat , Marks and Cooper both checked, and Spadavecchia fired out a bet. Marks check-raised, Cooper folded, and Spadavecchia called.
The river was a blank, Marks bet enough to put Spadavecchia all in, and he called. Marks showed for a full house, and we unfortunately missed Spadavecchia's hand. He is eliminated in 21st place.
Ron Fast raised pre-flop, the Owais Ahmed three-bet. Dan Heimiller called and Fast also called. The flop was , and Heimiller led out. Fast raised, and Ahmed re-raised. Heimiller called and Fast called for the last of his chips.
The turn was the . Ahmed bet, Heimiller raised, and Ahmed called. Then both players checked the river card. Heimiller turned over a winning low, and Ahmed turned over for a two-pair and a winning high hand.
Heimiller and Ahmed split the pot, and Fast was eliminated in 19th place for$6,900.
We caught the action on the turn of a board. Jeff Tims was all in with against the of David Bach. Bach scooped when the completed the board, and Tims was eliminated in 18th place.
In wave of wild pre-flop action, Mark Klecan raised showing the , Frankie O'Dell () three-bet, Dan Kelly () 4-bet, Klecan called the four bets, and O'Dell raised to five bets. Dan Kelly called all-in for 43,000, and Klecan called the fifth bet as well.
Klecan paired his six on fourth street and bet out, and O'Dell quickly raised after receiving the . O'Dell bet out each street the rest of the hand, with Klecan calling him down, and setting up the following showdown.
Kelly: /
O'Dell: /
Klecan: /
No player had a qualifying low, and O'Dell won the high with three aces. After the hand, Frankie O'Dell was up to 360,000, and Dan Kelly was eliminated in 16th place for $8,378.
Tyson Marks: / /
David Bach: / /
David Singer: / /
Owais Ahmed: / (FOLD)
Singer brought it in, Ahmed completed, Marks called, Bach raised, and only Singer and Marks called. Bach led out on fourth and fifth street, and after just calling on fourth, Singer moved all in on fifth for less . Marks moved all in as well for less then three bets, and Bach called both.
Marks:
Bach:
Singer:
Marks had a pair of sevens, Bach a pair of aces and a low draw, and Singer had ace-high and a low draw. Singer picked up a gut-shot straight draw on sixth and ripped the off on seventh to give him a straight and a sixty-five low. Marks picked up a meaningless queen on sixth and the on seventh, while Bach picked up a flush draw on sixth. The on seventh gave him a meaningless two pair though, and Singer scooped a monster pot.
James Mackey got the last of his chips in the middle with wired queens, but unfortunately for him, he was up against Scott Bohlman's wired Aces. When the boards were out, Mackey was unable to catch Bohlman's higher wired pair, and he has been eliminated from the tournament. He receives $10,345 for his 14th place finish.
Michael Cooper completed with a , and Owais Ahmed and Tom Schneider came along. Cooper kept the lead on fourth, and again both players called. Fifth brought a pair on board for Ahmed, and he fired out. Schneider folded, and Cooper raised all in.
Ahmed: /
Cooper: /
Cooper had two pair on fourth, but he had an awful lot of cards to fade since Ahmed had four to a flush and a pair. Also, Ahmed held two of the cards that would fill Cooper up. Sixth street brought a for Ahmed, completing his heart flush. Cooper got out of his seat. He never even got a chance to fill up, as Ahmed turned over a on seventh, making him a straight flush.
Before the break, David Bach's stack had been dwindling of late, and he was now all-in on third street against three players, Rep Porter, Tom Schneider, and George Rechnitzer.
On fifth street, Schneider bet out, Rechnitzer called, and Porter raised. Both other players called, then all checked sixth street. Schneider bet again on the river, prompting a fold from Rechnitzer and a call from Porter. The players revealed their hands:
Schneider: /
Porter: /
Bach: /
Schneider won the high with his tens-full, Porter won the low with his seventy-five, and Bach was the odd man out. He has been eliminated in 12th place, earning $12,998.
After the hand, both Schneider and Porter sit with 705,000 in chips.
David Singer completed with an , and Tom Schneider was the only caller with . Schneider took the lead after catching an , while Singer had a . Singer called, then they got the last of Singer's chips in on fifth after both caught good. In the end, Schneider made a six-low, which bested Singer's eight-six low and eliminated him from contention.