Hand #58: JC Tran opened to 375,000 in the hijack and Anton Morgenstern called from the big blind. Both players checked to the turn of a board where Morgenstern bet 450,000, resulting in a fold from Tran.
Hand #59: Sylvain Loosli raised to 325,000 on the button and took down the blinds and antes.
Hand #60: Sylvain Loosli raised to 325,000 in the cutoff, Jay Farber called from the small blind, and Mark Newhouse three-bet shoved for 3.2 million from the big blind. Loosli folded, Farber called after a few moments, and the hands were revealed.
Farber:
Newhouse:
The flop came down giving both players a straight draw, though Newhouse's was superior. The turn changed nothing, but the landed on the river to give Newhouse a winning ace-high straight to double up.
Hand #56: Jan Nakladal raised to 325,000 from the cutoff, and Matthew Reed called from the big blind. On the flop, Reed check-folded to a bet of 400,000.
Hand #57: David Benefield got a walk in the big blind.
Hand #58: Amir Lehavot opened to 320,000 from the cutoff. Matthew Reed responded with a three-bet to 725,000 from the button. The blinds released, and Lehavot also tossed his hand into the muck.
Hand #59: Reed continued to apply pressure by raising to 325,00 from late position. He picked up the blinds and antes.
Hand #60: Amir Lehavot moved all in from middle position, and the rest of the table folded.
Hand #61: Amir Lehavot raised to 320,000 from early position and Jan Nakladal called from the big blind to see a flop of . Nakladal checked, Lehavot bet 275,000, and Nakladal check-raised to 625,000. Lehavot folded.
Hand #62: Maxx Coleman bumped it up to 320,000 from late position and Rep Porter came along from the big blind. The flop came down and both players knuckled the table. On the turn, Porter check-folded to a bet of 275,000 from Coleman.
Hand #35: Marc McLaughlin had the button. Ryan Riess raised all in from under the gun for 2.755 million. Everyone folded, and Riess won the pot.
Hand #36: Bruno Kawauti had the button. From under the gun, Sergio Castelluccio raised to 320,000. Everyone folded, and Castelluccio won the pot.
Hand #37: Chris Lindh had the button. Action folded to him, and he raised to 450,000. Ryan Riess folded from the small blind, and Serigo Castelluccio folded from the big blind, giving Lindh the pot.
Hand #38: The button was on Ryan Riess to start this hand. From the cutoff seat, Chris Lindh raised to 360,000 and took down the blinds and antes for the second hand in a row.
Hand #54: Fabian Ortiz raised to 330,000 from middle position, Anton Morgenstern called in the cutoff, and JC Tran defended his big blind. The dealer fanned , Tran and Ortiz checked, Morgenstern fired out 550,000, and only Ortiz called. The turn brought the , both players checked, and the completed the board. The pair checked again, and Ortiz won with for trip aces.
Hand #55: Tran raised to 380,000 out of the small blind, Michiel Brummelhuis defended his big blind, and the flop came . Brummelhuis called a bet of 410,000, the turn brought the , and Tran checked. Brummelhuis fired out 525,000, and Tran folded.
Hand #56: The action folded to Tran, who raised to 375,000 on the button. Both blinds released, and the two-time WSOP bracelet winner took down the blinds and antes.
Hand #57: Morgenstern was first to act, and he raised to 325,000. Jay Farber three-bet to 775,000 on his direct left, and the action folded back to the German, who called. The dealer spread , Morgenstern quickly checked, and Farber bet 925,000. Morgenstern tank-folded.
Hand #33: Chris Lindh raised to 340,000 from middle position, then Sergio Castelluccio reraised to 720,000 from the cutoff. It folded back around to Lindh who decided to step aside, conceding the pot to Castelluccio.
Hand #34: Carlos Mortensen raised to 360,000 from the cutoff seat and got one caller in Marc McLaughlin playing from the small blind.
The first three community cards came . McLaughlin checked, Mortensen bet 500,000, and McLaughlin called. The turn brought the and another check from McLaughlin. This time Mortensen bet 1,075,000, and McLaughlin flicked his cards away to the dealer.
Hand #32: Sergio Castelluccio had the button. Chris Lindh raised to 360,000 from the hijack seat, and Carlos Mortensen took a moment before he reraised to 1 million from the small blind. Lindh paused, then called.
The flop came down , and Mortensen checked his option. Lindh checked behind.
The turn was the to pair the board. Mortensen checked, and Lindh bet 905,000. Mortensen called.
The put three sixes on the board on the river. Mortensen checked, and Lindh checked behind.
Mortensen showed the for sixes full of deuces, but his full house was beaten by Lindh's bigger full house with the .
Hand #49: Anton Morgenstern raised to 350,000 in early position and took down the pot.
Hand #50: Mark Newhouse raised to 320,000 in middle position and collected the pot.
Hand #51: Mark Newhouse raised to 330,000 in early position and Michiel Brummelhuis three-bet all in for 3.49 million from cutoff. Action folded back around to Newhouse who folded.
Hand #52: Sylvain Loosli raised to 325,000 on the button and won the blinds and antes.
Hand #53: Sylvain Loosli raised to 325,000 from the cutoff and Jay Farber called from the small blind. The flop fell and Farber check-called 325,000 from Loosli to see the turn, which both checked. The river completed the board and Farber bet 575,000. Loosli called, but mucked when Farber tabled .
Hand #31: Alexander Livingston raised to 340,000 from under the gun, Bruno Kawauti called from middle position, then after a lengthy pause Clement Tripodi pushed all in from the hijack seat.
It folded back around to Livingston who asked for a count of Tripodi's stack — 2.3 million — and he folded, but Kawauti called right away.
Tripodi showed , while Kawauti had picked up another big pair with . The flop came , then the on the turn provided Tripodi a couple of additional outs to make a straight. But the river was the , and Tripodi is out in 23rd place.
We've reached the first 20-minute break of Day 7 of the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event. The day began with 27 players hoping to reach poker's most coveted final table, which will take place here in Las Vegas in November. After two hours of action, start-of-day chip leader Anton Morgenstern is still on top, and four players have been eliminated.
The first player out the door was Benjamin Pollack, who had his pocket nines cracked by Maxx Coleman's ace-three when Coleman made a wheel. A short while later, Dutch player Jorn Walthaus moved all in for 1.66 million on the button with ace-nine and 2012 November Niner Steve Gee re-shoved for nearly 3 million with ace-king. Gee flopped a pair of kings, and Walthaus exited in 26th place.
Out in 25th place was Jason Mann, who got his last chips in the middle with pocket tens on a flop against Chris Lindh's queen-nine. The board bricked out, and Mann collected $285,408.
Then it was Gee who made his exit from the ESPN stage. Gee four-bet shoved for about 2.9 million with ten-seven of diamonds and Morgenstern called instantly with pocket eights. Gee was unable to improve, and his hopes of making a second straight WSOP Main Event final table were dashed.
The play has been diverse at the three remaining tables. The outer table saw 55 hands completed during the first level of the day, and the main feature table played 48, while the secondary feature table had only 30.
Lindh, one of the players seated at the secondary table, made up a little ground on Morgenstern when he flopped quad aces against Carlos Mortensen. Mortensen, the only former Main Event champ still in the field, lost more than a million in that pot, but he still sits in the top 10 at the break.
Morgenstern stepped on the gas late in the level, winning several pots and eliminating Gee to climb to nearly 30 million.
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