Brian Horwitz's tournament has come to an abrupt end, the major damage caused by Casey Stewart.
In a flurry of betting activity, Stewart was all in with and needing to avoid an ace or king, as Horwitz held .
He managed to do just that as the five community cards fell to improve Stewart to a flush and leave Horwitz with only 6,000 chips.
Those 6,000 doubled on the next hand when his beat Ahmed Amin's , but he crashed out after the very next hand when his was no match for Stewart's on a board.
Ahmed Amin opened to 13,000 from early position and Jacob Toole three-bet all in to 48,000. Amin quickly called and tabled . It was a race, as Toole turned over .
Scott Eskenazi was left nursing a tiny stack containing 17,000 after his ran into David Martirosyan's in an all-in preflop confrontation. The board ran and Eskenazi had to hand over 98,000 of his stack.
A couple of hands later, he was all in from under the gun for those 17,000 chips and Ahmed Amin reraised him to 28,000. The other active players folded, Eskenazi opened and saw that his opponent held
By the river the board had run and with that Eskenazi was done and dusted.
A raise from middle position to 14,000 from Kezu Oshima was met with a three-bet to 32,000 from Anton Smirnov in the cutoff and a call from Dean Bui in the big blind. Oshima relinquished his and it was heads up to the flop.
Both players checked the flop, and Bui checked the turn before calling a 28,000 bet from Smirnov.
That was the end of the betting because both players checked the river.
"Tell me I win this hand," said Bui before turning over .
Smirnov mucked and Bui let out a scream of "YES!" before stacking up his new chips.
Jason Mercier joined the PokerNews Podcast to talk about the World Series of Poker, not engaging in bracelet bets and the first time he ever played online poker. Then, all hell breaks loose. The crew rants about televised poker, Galen Hall and Jesse Martin break the live stream, and there are surprise visits by Allen Kessler, Matt Glantz and Matt Salsberg.
Level 16 has ended and the players are on a 60-minute dinner break.
The players have been informed that 10 levels will be played tonight regardless of how many players remain. That means there is another four hours of play, plus one more break, taking us to around 12:30 a.m. before the players are bagging and tagging their chips.
and needing to avoid an ace or king, as Horwitz held 
.
to improve Stewart to a flush and leave Horwitz with only 6,000 chips.
beat Ahmed Amin's 
, but he crashed out after the very next hand when his 
was no match for Stewart's 
on a 
. It was a race, as Toole turned over 
.
and Toole hit the rail.
ran into David Martirosyan's 
and Eskenazi had to hand over 98,000 of his stack.
and saw that his opponent held 
and with that Eskenazi was done and dusted.
flop.
turn before calling a 28,000 bet from Smirnov.
versus the 
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