Alan Goehring, who was fortunate to treble through his shortstack earlier on, is now finally out. He made his move for 2,350 after Irfan Hassan had re-raised Johnny Lodden's 1,400 pre-flop raise to 4,000.
Johnny called, and the two players, with Goehring fighting for his tournament life, saw a flop.
Both players checked, and out came the turn.
This time Hassan bet 4k, but Lodden was having none of it and quickly stepped out of the way.
THE FIFTY-- Australia's Tino Lechich has been our chip leader over here at the Fifty for most of the day, with a high point of 78,000 that slipped to about 56K around the dinner break. No worries for this one-man wrecking ball, though, as he just claimed another victim, taking out a short-stacked opponent with a set of queens and sending his stack back up to 65,000.
THE FIFTY-- With the flurry of post-dinner bustouts here at the Fifty, the floor has finally broken the second table of the day. After the re-shuffle, Table 22 ended up with a virtual Murderer's Row with Johnny Chan, Lee Nelson and Mads Anderson all seated next to one another.
Jamie Gold has just eliminated Chris Bruce from the feature table. As retold by Bruce himself, "I raised it up to 1.6k, Jamie made it 4k and I pushed for 30k. He called with Aces, I had Ace King, flop came rags."
Chris was so dejected that he decided to leave without undertaking interviews. His parting words were, "I'd only invested 1.6k, I didn't need to get involved."
Sportswriter Martin Johnson moved all in for his last 6,000 with against an opponent with . The flop was and Johnson took the lead. The turn was the and the river was the . Johnson increased his stack to 12,000 and avoided elimination.
Never quite managing to top the starting stack, Jeff Madsen is proving knockout-proof today. This time it was Simon Taylor calling his 7,400 all-in with , finding Madsen with .
Flop:
Turn: - no, wait, in all the confusion surrounding the swarming of the cameras, the dealer had already burned, and this Ace was meant to be the burn for the river, while the second burn was the turn. Confused? We were.
Real Turn: "New chop outs," murmured pessimistic Madsen...
River: