On our to check how play in the Pavilion Room was going, we noticed Matt Stout walking in the corridor with a group of friends, presumably busted. Upon checking out Twitter feed, we found confirmation of Stout's exit.
Jake Cody is absolutely flying at the moment and is up to 25,000 despite buying into the Millionaire Maker late. It's not all good news though because the talented Brit is having to share a table with $111,111 One Drop High Roller champion Tony Gregg and fellow Brit Ben "f3nix35" Dobson.
Elsewhere, Rhys Jones is cruising with 19,100 while Maria Ho is in a similar position with 19,300.
Slowly but surely the field is getting cut down but there is no indication whatsoever on how many players are left. What we do know is that there are only ten tables remaining in the Pavilion room and the below players are the most familiar faces left there.
Freddy Deeb doubled to 3,700 but is still incredibly short.
Deeb, in the big blind, called a raise of 650 from the cutoff and then open-shipped his stack into the middle on a flop, a bet that received an instantaneous call from his opponent.
It was versus , Deeb holding the lower of the pairs. The on the turn was no help to Deeb, but the was as it improved him to a set and won him the pot.
The player whose aces were cracked jumped from his seat and put his hands on his head in apparent disbelief.
"You still have money," said Deeb, "What are you moaning about?"
"First my jacks and now my aces?"
"You'll miss me when I'm gone, you'll be bored!" said Deeb, which drew a chuckle from several of the players at the table except the player with the cracked aces, of course.
After a raise to 850 and a three-bet to 1,600, Loren Klein called and so did the initial raiser. On the flop, the three-bettor made it 2,400 to go and only Klein called to see the turn. The opponent checked and Klein won the pot with a 3,300 bet. He has taken over control of the table and hopes for yet another deep run similar to the Pot Limit Omaha Event #3.