Still virtually down to the felt while everyone else was having a marvellous time flinging millions of chips around with kings and aces and whatnot, it was a pretty clinical affair for overnight chip leader Kenny Hsiung.
Matt Hawrilenko raised, and Pat Pezzin reraised from the cutoff. Daniel Alaei four-bet from the button, and over to Soheil Shamseddin in the big blind, who capped it. Hawrilenko got out of the way, and Pezzin and Alaei both called. Pretty monstrous already.
Flop:
Shamseddin bet out only for Pezzin to raise. Alaei called, and Shamseddin reraised. Pezzin four-bet, Alaei flatted again, Shamseddin capped it and and both players called. This is getting, as they say in my country, ma-hoosive.
Turn:
Shamseddin fired out again and Pezzin raised again; Alaei tanked this time but still called, and Shamseddin just called too.
River: Now Shamseddin just checked it and Pezzin moved all in for his last 34,000. Alaei finally folded, and Shamseddin called. Phew. On their backs.
Shamseddin:
Pezzin:
Shamseddin is down to just 125,000, while Pezzin appears to be our new chip leader on, well, he's still stacking them up.
Kenny Hsuing got his chips in the middle and was thoroughly behind with up against Daniel Alaei's pocket . An ace on the flop doubled him up though -- he's still in, on 90,000.
Kenny Hsuing had been making a bit of a recovery, but meanwhile Matt Glantz had got himself right down into that unpleasant short stack place; neither was in the mood to take it easy.
Thus Glantz raised his button and called the reraise from Hsuing in the big blind to see a flop. Hsuing bet out and Glantz called, and when Hsuing bet again on the turn, Glantz called all in for his last 28,000.
Hsuing:
Glantz:
Oh dear. Glantz doubles to 350,000, and Hsuing is down to just 50,000.
Michiel Brummelhuis has made a mini-comeback after making Soheil Shamseddin fold on the flop and Daniel Alaei fold on the river of a board. He's up to 510,000.