The flop read when we found Layne Flack lead out for 16,300 into Andy Hwang. Hwang sat thinking for a moment before announcing that he was all in over the top. Flack stacked the rest of his chips and moved them into the middle, calling for his tournament life.
Flack showed for top pair and was well ahead of Hwang's . The turn was the and the river the , ensuring that Flack would score a double with his pair of nines. The six-time bracelet winner is now sitting on about 120,000 in chips.
Players are now on an unscheduled 10-minute break. Across the Amazon room, a tribute to the late Jerry Buss is occurring with a video introduction by Kobe Bryant.
Action started with Ryan Olisar who raised to 4,000 from under the gun. On the button Allen Cunningham called. In the small blind, Paul Tedeschi counted out a reraise to 10,500. Both Olisar and Cunningham called.
The dealer spread out the flop of and Tedeschi continued his agression with a bet of 13,800. Olisar folded but Cunningham reraised to just over 30,000, leaving himself with only a few chips behind.
Tedeschi believed that Cunningham was all in and only threw in three chips, then exposed his hand. He quickly covered it when the table informed him of his mistake.
Tedeschi kept his hand over his cards as the dealer put out the on the turn. Cunningham moved all in and Tedeschi called and was finally able to remove his hand from his cards.
Cunningham:
Tedeschi:
The river was a blank and Cunningham was eliminated and sent to the rail while Tedeschi raked in the chips.
We missed Scott Seiver's bustout, but Maurice Hawkins was kind enough to inform us of what happened.
According to Hawkins, Seiver opened to 4,000. Hawkins and Justin Smith called before Chanracy Khun made a reraise to 14,500. Action folded back to Seiver who moved all in for roughly 55,000. Only Khun called and the two players showed down their hands.
Seiver:
Khun:
Hawkins told us that the board rolled out and Seiver shipped his last chips over to Khun.
We caught up with the action to see Goran Mandic and Matt Stout looking down at a completed board of . Stout cut out a bet of what looked to bet 30,000 and slid it into the center of the table. Mandic tanked for a bit of time before counting out and pushing in a call. Mandic mucked, however, after Stout showed for a winning pair of jacks.
"Slow down!" remarked Jonathan Little to Stout from across the table. "This is a three-day tournament. You can't win today".
Stout just smiled as he stacked his new chips and assumed the position as one of the biggest stacks in the room.
The flop read when we found Erik Seidel all in and at risk for his last 38,400. His opponent, Jean Gaspard, pondered a call for a moment and eventually decided to go with it.
Gaspard:
Seidel:
Seidel was ahead with his pair of queens and stayed that way as the hit fourth street. Seidel needed to dodge a jack or a nine heading to fifth street and did exactly that as the finished off the board. Seidel was abel to score a double up and now has about 95,000 in chips.
Action began with Antonio Esfandiari raising to 4,300. The player to his immediate right reraised to 10,600. The player to that players right made a reraise to 21,500.
All nonsense stopped when Antonio Esfandiari moved all in for the remainder of his chips. Both players folded in quick succession and Antonio took down the huge preflop pot.
With that Antonio moved over the 100,000 chip mark.
, while Baumstein showed 
. The board came 
, giving Gonzalez a pair of jacks that was good enough to take the 25,000 pot.
when we found Layne Flack lead out for 16,300 into Andy Hwang. Hwang sat thinking for a moment before announcing that he was all in over the top. Flack stacked the rest of his chips and moved them into the middle, calling for his tournament life.
for top pair and was well ahead of Hwang's 
. The turn was the 
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and Tedeschi continued his agression with a bet of 13,800. Olisar folded but Cunningham reraised to just over 30,000, leaving himself with only a few chips behind.
on the turn. Cunningham moved all in and Tedeschi called and was finally able to remove his hand from his cards.
when we found Erik Seidel all in and at risk for his last 38,400. His opponent, Jean Gaspard, pondered a call for a moment and eventually decided to go with it.
hit fourth street. Seidel needed to dodge a jack or a nine heading to fifth street and did exactly that as the 
finished off the board. Seidel was abel to score a double up and now has about 95,000 in chips.
