Jared Bleznick is approaching 200,000 and just won two hands in a row, before Phil Hui outdrew him to stop the winning streak.
Bleznick opened to 5,500 from the cutoff and Adam Crawford reraised to 16,500. Bleznick took a moment to decice.
"You got a lot of chips," said Bleznick eyeing Crawford's remaining 61,000 stack.
Bleznick four-bet all in and Crawford folded.
In the next hand, Bleznick opened again to 5,500 and everyone folded.
On the third hand, Bleznick opened to 5,500 from middle position and Hui called from the big blind. Both players drew one and then checked. Hui won the hand with .
Below are the current counts for the other players at the table.
A monster pile of chips had accumulated in the middle of a pot between Rep Porter and Tom Schneider. We missed the initial action but Porter drew one card and Schneider stood pat.
Porter was forced to check-fold after Schneider fired a bet of 20,000.
James Woods and Max Kruse have been eliminated in consecutive hands and will take home $2,568 each. Woods is heading to the $1,500 H.O.R.S.E. tournament that started earlier today, and Kruse will likely be playing more events as the WSOP rolls on.
Here are the hands:
Woods was all in against Jeff Lisandro and both players were drawing one. Woods had a draw to an eight and drew a ten to make . Lisandro had a draw to a ten and drew a five to win the hand with , beating Woods' ten-eight with a ten-seven.
In the next hand, Kruse opened to 4,000 and Jared Bleznick went all in from the small blind. He had Kruse well-covered. Kruse thought for a little and then called. Bleznick had the better draw, drawing to a seven, but paired, making . Kruse couldn't dodge a pair and pulled a six, leaving him with .
Jeff Lisandro opened to 5,500 and called an all-in shove from Xavier Kyablue. Kyablue stood pat, tabling and Lisandro drew one.
The dealer gave Lisandro his final card and, after peeling it slowly, turned over a with the ten being the last card to have the best hand and eliminate Kyablue.
Rep Porter opened on the button to 4,500 and Phil Hellmuth reraised to 15,000. Adam Crawford was in the big blind.
He was tapping one finger on the back of his cards while he debated his decision. Porter and Hellmuth were both turned toward Crawford, awaiting his next move. Crawford shoved all in for 32,000.
Porter took about 30 seconds to fold and Hellmuth folded as well once he got a count of how much more the bet was.