We reached the table on fourth street, where Benson check-called a bet from Friedman. He check-called another on fifth, both players knuckled on sixth, and Benson led out on seventh. Friedman called, then showed the and a when Benson tabled for kings-up.
We reached the action on sixth street, where Zintel led out for a bet. Seiver raised, and Zintel tank-called. Zintel check-called a bet on seventh, and Seiver ripped over for an ace-high flush. Zintel shook his head, then showed for a lesser flush.
"Wow," Seiver said, thoroughly surprised to see the contents of Zintel's hand.
The remaining 28 players are now on a 60-minute dinner break. We'll see you then.
The cards are back in the air here in the Stud Championship, and the players have been moved across to Amazon Blue where every table has an automatic shuffler.
Rudolf Zintel: / /
Freddie Ellis: / (FOLD)
Scott Seiver: / /
Ashton Griffin was late from dinner, yet he still brought it in with the . Ellis completed, Seiver and Zintel both called, and Griffin's hand was mucked. All three players checked on fourth street, and on fifth the action checked to Zintel. He bet, and only Seiver called.
The pair checked on sixth, then Seiver folded to a bet on seventh.
While this hand was going down, both Calvin Anderson and Konstantin Puchkov were eliminated with unknown action.
Daniel Negreanu has been eliminated in 25th place by Frank Kassela, and we are now redrawing to three tables. When we arrived at the table, the hands looked like this:
Negreanu:
Kassela:
On seventh, Negreanu was dealt paint - a queen would've given him a full house - but it was a meaningless , and Kid Poker was eliminated just short of the redraw.
Mike Sexton: / /
Michael Mizrachi: / /
Adam Friedman: / /
We reached the table on sixth street, where Friedman checked, Sexton bet, and both Mizrachi and Friedman called. The same action occurred on seventh, but before calling, Friedman called Sexton's hand.
"OK, Mike," he sighed. "Show the eight-nine."
Sexton obliged, flipping over to scoop the pot with a straight.
Mike Leah: / /
Kenn Wittock: / (FOLD)
Scott Seiver: / /
Freddie Ellis: / (FOLD)
We caught the action on fourth street, where Leah was all in for 1,700 (less than a bet). Ellis was the only player to fold. On fifth, Seiver bet out and Wittock folded.
"You have a pair?" Leah asked.
"No," Seiver answered.
"Me neither," Leah said, showing .
Seiver tabled , and the on the turn gave him an unbeatable hand. Leah received an unknown card on sixth and a meaningless on seventh before exiting.
On adjacent tables, Stephen Weiss and Ben Cohen have also been eliminated.