Humberto Brenes was almost throwing his shark at the dealer but the damage was already done, the charismatic two-times WSOP bracelet winner is out. He left the table with a smile and shook hands with his opponents after losing the final flip with against the of Chris DeMaci. The board ran out and Brenes was covered by about 5,000 in chips.
After taking some hits, Dwyte Pilgrim found himself with just 3,000 in chips. He built that back up to 25,000 and got it all in with against his opponent's . The dealer started to put out the flop and the came out the window. It wasn't looking good for Pilgrim but the next card fanned was the to give Pilgrim a set. The rest of the board was and Pilgrim doubled up.
Here are some more chip counts from around the room:
Andrew Teng has chipped up consistently throughout the day and now also just knocked out a short stack, who got the remainder of his stack in with eight-nine suited. Teng held and the board ran out .
Alexander Kuzmin just doubled up after raising and calling the three-bet shove of the player one seat over with . He flipped for his tournament life and 87,000 chips against and the board ran out in his favor.
On our last scout around the tournament are we discovered a couple more stacks over 300,000.
David Fong has amassed 350,000 chips and is up there at the top of the leaderboard, although he'll need to add to his impressive stack if he is to best that of James Mackey.
Mackey, known as Mig.com in online poker circles, has 360,000 chips in front of him and is in great shape to go super deep in this event. Mackey already has a WSOP bracelet, having won the $5,000 N0-Limit Hold'em event in 2007 and has done his chances of winning another in this event no harm at all.
After a thorough scan of the room it looks like Jonathan Dimmig is the current chip leader with 550,000. Bart Lybaert appears to be in 2nd place with 400,000.
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