Gavin Smith opened the betting with a raise to 450 from under the gun, a raise that folded out the active players one-by-one until the action was on Olivier Busquet on the button.
Busquet peeked at his cards then moved all-in for 3,150 in total. The blinds ducked out of the way, but Smith shrugged his shoulders and called.
Smith:
Busquet:
Smith looked on course for a timely double-up, but the flipped the hand on its head and put the ball firmly in Busquet's court. The left Smith drawing dead and he was already out of his seat when the completed the board.
As Smith left the table, the waiter arrived with a tray of drink. Smith darted back to his to collect his beverage, and Busquet gave the waiter a couple of dollars to pay for it.
"Well that was worth it," said Smith as he headed out of the tournament area sipping on his free cocktail.
Online superstar Griffin "Flush_Entity" Benger is no longer competing for Event #4's bracelet after busting from the tournament on the last hand before the antes.
Earlier this afternoon Chino Rheem was attempting to book a $500 last longer bet with Shawn Sheikhan. If he managed to do so, he could be $500 lighter as his tournament has come to an abrupt end and his quest for a WSOP bracelet over for the time being.
Kevin Sherrill has had his emotions put through the wringer thanks to a suckout-resuckout a few moments ago.
Sherrill found himself all-in with versus . His opponent flopped a trey, but Sherrill spiked a nine on the river. Reports of a fist-pump celebration are so far unfounded.
Maria Ho hasn't been at her new table long, but that has not stopped her from getting her chips into the middle of the felt.
Ho was down to 900 chips and she committed all of these with an all-in raise when first to act in the cutoff. The button quickly folded, as did the small blind. The big blind took a few second to do some math before sending his cards back to the dealer as well, allowing Ho to add the blinds to her dwindling stack.
Ho has two dangerous opponents at her new table in the shape of Todd Terry and Faraz Jaka, the latter finding himself among the chip leaders courtesy of his 18,000 chips.
Ari Engel is the owner of six WSOP circuit rings, 16 cashes at the WSOP, but has no bracelet as yet. He's playing a 6,900-chip stack at the moment, which is slightly more than the current average. He looks comfortable in his surroundings and is definitely a player to look out for as the field thins out.
More than half of the 2,208 starters have busted so far, with 1,030 players still in the hunt for the title.
We saw Ryan Laplante and Jesse Sylvia both standing on the rail, and they confirmed that they had both been eliminated.
"We were actually eliminated at the same time," Laplante said, though it happened at different tables. Laplante then explained his final hand came when he got his short stack all in holding only to run it into pocket kings.
Scotland's Niall Farrell is thousands of miles from home, but that fact doesn't seem to be fazing him judging by the stack of chips he currently has in his arsenal.
Moments ago, Farrell opened the preflop betting round with a raise to 450 from late position, a bet that looked set to collect the blinds. That was until the big blind moved all-in for 3,500 chips. Farrell wasn't prepared to gamble for that amount of chips and let his hand go.
"Welcome to the table," joked Farrell as the big blind, the newcomer to the table, added an extra 650 chips to his stack.
flipped the hand on its head and put the ball firmly in Busquet's court. The 
left Smith drawing dead and he was already out of his seat when the 
completed the board.
only to run it into pocket kings.
