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Welcome back to the skimmed-milk version of the HORSE update - counts and stuff coming here as soon as they get on my notepad.

Play is underway.

1 Joe Cassidy 168,700
2 Patrik Antonius 136,200
3 Tom Franklin 125,000
4 Allen Cunningham 122,400
5 Matthew Glantz 119,300
6 Andy Bloch 113,200
7 Minh Ly 110,900
8 Kassem "Freddy" Deeb 110,600
9 Chad Brown 110,100
10 Ram Vaswani 107,400
11 Annand "Victor" Ramdin 106,900
12 Walter Browne 103,700
13 Allen Kessler 102,800
14 Roy Thung 100,000
15 Cuong Do 97,900
16 James Van Alstyne 97,800
17 David Chiu 97,400
18 Jim Bechtel 96,000
19 Ralph Porter 94,800
20 Thor Hansen 93,900
21 Roger McDow 91,000
22 Ted Forrest 86,600
23 Mike Matusow 86,200
24 Greg Mascio 86,100
25 David 'Chip' Reese 84,100
26 Illya Trincher 82,100
27 Annie Duke 81,800
28 Mike Kim 81,200
29 Tuan Le 81,000
30 Jennifer Harman 79,800
31 Michael McKenna 78,900
32 Mickey Appleman 74,600
33 Jan Sorensen 73,800
34 Brett Jungblut 72,900
35 Christopher Smith 70,800
36 Neal Frietz 70,600
37 John Juanda 70,500
38 Todd Brunson 70,000
39 David Oppenheim 68,900
40 Sherkhan Farnood 68,500
41 Matt Hawrilenko 68,400
42 David Williams 65,800
43 Phil Ivey 65,000
44 Max Pescatori 64,800
45 Chris Ferguson 64,100
46 Tom Weideman 63,100
47 Ray Dehkharghani 62,800
48 Gavin Smith 62,100
49 Erick Lindgren 62,000
50 Erik Seidel 61,500
51 Tad Jurgens 60,300
52 T.J. Cloutier 60,200
53 Abe Mosseri 59,500
54 Alfredo "Toto" Leonidas 58,900
55 Gabe Kaplan 58,700
56 Mike Sexton 57,500
57 Phil Hellmuth Jr. 57,100
58 Mark Gregorich 55,900
59 David Rheem 55,200
60 Doyle Brunson 54,000
61 Greg Raymer 53,300
62 David Grey 53,100
63 David Benyamine 53,000
64 Steve Zolotow 52,500
65 Rafael Perry 52,100
66 Juan Carlos Mortensen 51,000
67 Ted Lawson 50,000
68 Blair Rodman 49,800
69 Michael Mizrachi 49,400
70 Kristy Gazes 49,200
71 Ralph Rudd 48,800
72 Ali Eslami 46,600
73 Tom Hufnagle 45,200
74 David Singer 45,000
75 Dewey Tomko 43,800
76 Frank Kassela 43,300
77 Mike Wattel 43,000
78 Johnny Chan 42,900
79 Rocco Bucci 42,600
80 Yehia "Joe" Awada 42,300
81 Robert Williamson III 41,900
82 John Hennigan 41,200
83 Tony Cousineau 39,000
83 Jason Gray 39,000
85 John Hanson 38,500
86 Avi Freedman 38,200
87 Josh Arieh 37,500
87 Howard Lederer 37,500
89 Jeffrey Lisandro 36,500
90 David Levi 35,900
91 Rafi Amit 34,900
92 Mark Tenner 34,700
93 William "Bill" Edler 34,300
94 Aaron Katz 34,000
95 Gus Hansen 32,500
96 Mike Caro 30,700
97 Shahram "Sean" Sheikhan 30,300
98 David Sklansky 30,200
99 Huck Seed 29,800
100 Jeff King 29,500
101 Chau Giang 29,400
102 Tim Burt 28,800
103 Sam Farha 27,700
104 Matt Keikoan 27,400
105 Eli Elezra 26,700
105 Russ 'Dutch' Boyd 26,700
105 Daniel Shak 26,700
108 Richard Chase 26,300
109 Rob Hollink 26,100
110 Daniel Negreanu 25,100
111 Brett Richey 24,900
112 Barry Greenstein 23,600
113 Paul Phillips 23,200
114 John D'Agostino 22,900
115 David "Devil Fish" Ulliott 22,000
116 Chris Reslock 20,100
117 Tony Bloom 19,200
118 Dan Harmetz 16,700
119 Scotty Nguyen 16,000
119 Nick Schulman 16,000
121 Jeff Freedman 15,400
122 Cyndy Violette 13,700
123 David Wong 13,200
124 Brian Haveson 9,500
125 Lyle Berman 8,000
126 "Miami" John Cernuto 5,700
126 Rodeen Talebi 5,700
128 Chip Jett 4,900

Players who are sharing the same table:

Joe Cassidy, David Chui, Carlos Mortensen, Dutch Boyd, and Tony Bloom
Patrik Antoniu, Brett Jungblut, David Williams, & Sam Farha
Allen Cunningham, Joe Awada, Chip Reese, James Van Alstyne, Ted Forrest, & John D'Agostino
Andy Bloch, Ram Vaswani, Victor Ramdin, Phil Ivey, Gabe Kaplan, & Rob Hollink
Minh Ly, John Juanda, & Kristy Gazes
Freddy Deeb, Erick Lindgren, & David Benyamine
Chad Brown, Jim Betchel, Gavin Smith, Annie Duke & Miami John
Thor Hansen & Michael Mizrachi
Mike Matusow & Erik Seidel
Jennifer Harman, Chris Ferguson, Shahram Shiekhan & Gus Hansen
Todd Brunson, Toto Leonadis & Cyndy Violette
TJ Cloutier, Howard Lederer & Brian Haveson
Mike Sexton & David Sklansky
chip Jett, Daniel Negreanu, Greg Raymer & Josh Arieh

Looks like we're on Razz.

John Juanda and Cong Do split a pot.

Juanda = 2-J-A-8

Do = A-2-T-5

Board = 6-4-8-K-6

Mike Sexton -- 44,200
Daniel Shak -- 34,300
Chris Reslock -- 54,000

All from the same table:

Joe Cassidy (chip leader) -- around the 200k mark
Howard Lederer -- 57,000
Josh Arieh -- 42,000

Phil Ivey -- 127k
Ram Vaswani -- 48k
Gabe Kaplan -- 69k
Doyle Brunson -- 108k

Play has resumed.

38 minutes left on the clock.

Average stack = 69,417

13 tables

103 players

*******************BREAK*******************

While the HORSE players are out of the room, there's a bit of relief from the crowds, and I managed to count some chips from the rail - only the tables right next to it, mind.  But counts they are, and here they are:

Table 136

1 Daniel Shak 73,000
2 Paul Phillips 42,000
3 Jason Gray  10,400
4 David Sklansky 17,300
5 Allen Kessler 105,000
6 Mike Wattel 20,600
7 Chris Reslock 68,000
8 Mike Sexton  54,000

Table 125

1 Todd Brunson 77,000
2 David Singer 60,000
3
4 Captain Tom Franklin  135,000
5 Jan Sorensen 110,000
6 Toto Leonidas 65,000
7   ?  11,000
8 Dewey Tomko 50,000

Table 121

1 Joe Cassidy 182,400
2 Carlos Mortensen 28,000
3 David Chiu  46,400
4  ?  23,500
5 Dutch Boyd  84,000
6 Tony Bloom (?) 57,300
7 Christopher Smith  62,800
8 David Wong  78,000

Table 117

1 Phil Ivey 120,000
2 Ram Vaswani 46,000
3  ? Rob Hollink >? 63,000
4 Juan Le 43,000
5 Victor Ramdin 150,000
6 Andy Bloch 102,000
7 Gabe Kaplan 95,000
8 Doyle Brunson 98,000

The question marks represent the fact that we're not sure who's there - as the only time we can get counts is when the players are out of the room...

Tomko, Chiu, Brunson, & Rodman have all moved onto the same table.

From the tables I can see:

Captain Tom -- 134k
Dewey Tomko -- 52k
Jo Cassidy -- 200k
Todd Brunson -- 110k
Josh Arieh -- 77k
Juan Carlos Mortensen -- 41k

Sexton has joined the table of Ramdin, Vaswani, Bloch, Brunson (snr), Ivey & Kaplan

David Ulliott is OUT.

96 player remaining
12 tables
Average Stack = 74,479
Currently playing Stud

Phil Ivey -- 87k
Allan Kessler -- 111k
Ram Vaswani -- 43k

Doyle Brunson has dropped down to just 34k

Shahram Sheikhan is down to his final 2 thousand chips.

Brit Jason Gray is OUT.

David Sklansky is down to 6,200.

Neighbours:

Ivey -- 114,000
Vaswani -- 47,400

Kaplan shares a 90k pot with Mateyboy.

A few extra chips though courtesy of Ramdin's involvement.

So, after biding my time at the rail, I got to the front in time to see an all-in on Todd Brunson's table, with three other players in the (stud) pot.
A ruling had to be shouted for when the dealer dealt the last card to the first player face up instead of down - it was Todd in fact whose hand was now:
Kd 6d 6c 2d  //misdealt 4d
The ruling was that the last cards were to be dealt face-up to all players, and as it happens, the all-in guy won the main pot, with the small side pot eluding Todd too.  When Son of Doyle saw the river of the all-in guy he made the universal sign of the "oh, great" realising he'd lost, and spent the next ten minutes doing the angriest snappiest chip tricks I've seen in a long time.

100 chips have been eliminated from play.

Max Prescatori -- 50k
Kristie Gazes -- 32k
Patrik Antonius -- 224k
Erik Seidel -- 73k
Dewey Tomko -- 90k

Just before they raced off for the 100s, the announcer announced that both Juanda and Hellmuth were all-in. He then said that Hellmuth had made "Aces full" but then didn't say anything else.

Both players have returned to their seats, so I guess Juanda won the low as the last round was Stud Eight or Better.

Level 21 -- Hold 'Em

Blinds = $1,500/$3,000

Down to 10 tables

Sexton -- 79k
Ivey -- 93k
Kesseler -- 42k
Doyle B -- 95k
Todd B -- 39k
Gavin Smith -- 85k
Chris Ferguson -- 70k

Patrik Antonius -- 290k
David Benyamine -- 190k
Phil Hellmuth -- 14k
Freddie Deeb -- 175k
Ted Forrest -- 160k

A tough table:

Lederer
Brunson Senior
Brunson Junior
Ivey
Vaswani
Ramdin
Kaplan

$2,500

Right - mini-update from the Short Handed Hold'em, which has lost so many players, by HORSE standards in the last hour or so.  In fact it's a bit of a shock to have seen the tables drop so quickly when we're used to one elimination, on average, every hour. 

Some counts from that tourney (which has 22 tables remaining)

Richard Ashby     13,900
Juha Helppi         15,050
Simon Trumper    6,900
Tony (charming relative of Joe) Hachem)  5,900  (just knocked to 3k with an A2 outdraw against his AJ)
Harry Demetriou   29,000
Phil Gordon          6,200
Joe Beevers         13,000

Pictured are Simon and neighbour Tony - Simon says he's been 'struggling' but has raised his 1,900 to nearly 7k and feels much better after his last tournament's last-hand-before-dinner bust.

They've just completed a 10 min break in which I managed to obtain a few chip counts:

Mike Sexton -- 85k
Gus Hanson -- 30k
Jon Hennighan -- 60k
Blair Rodman -- 133k
Phil Hellmuth -- 1.5k
Jennifer Harman -- 115k
Annie Duke -- 88k

Greg Raymer is OUT.

Eliminated by Jo Cassidy.

The game was Limit Hold 'Em and Greg held Q-Q to Cassidy's Q-8.

The board was J-9-rag

Raymer bet every street, eventually hitting the curb when the 10 River gave the youngster a four-outer straight.

Both Phil Hellmuth and Gus Hanson are OUT.

Michael Mizrachi and David Williams are OUT.

Johnny Chan is also OUT.

Sheikhan Shahram is OUT.

Max Prescatori is OUT

shorstacked all day, then eliminated in the Hold 'Em round.

Cong Do is now second in chips.

Erik Seidel has approximately 125,000

'name' players still remaining:

Lederer
Sexton
Harman
Cloutier
Arieh
Reese
Vaswani
D Brunson
T Brunson
Antonius
Bloch
Greenstein
Duke
Tomko
Ivey
Seidel

Chris Freguson has just been eliminated.

And we're down one more British player, which brings us down to the felt, UK-wise...

Ram is OUT, with just 7 tables left, and 10 minutes before the dinner break.

$2,500

Simon Trumper is OUT.

Ad Qd verus Harry Demetriou's Aspades Ac

$2,500

A few chip counts:

Tony G -- 15,000
Harry Demetriou -- 34,000
Juha Helppi -- 9.500
William Chen -- 40,000
Joe Beevers -- 12,000

--------------------------- DINNER BREAK ---------------------------

Back in 90 minutes.

Play has resumed.

It appears as though Jennifer Harman was eliminated from the comp just after play resumed.

David Benyamine is OUT. Couldn't see any details as it was across the other side.

Prize Pool = $6,721,000
46 players left - 6 tables
Average Stack = $155,434

Table sharers:

Tran, Lederer, Antonius, Brunson Senior, Bloch, Williamson

Also:

Deeb, Seidel, Duke, Smith
Ly, Ramdin, Arieh, Do
Forrest, Reese, Cunningham
Cloutier, Greenstein, Tomko

Pay Out:

1st  $1,784,640
2nd  $1,029,600
3rd  $617,760
4th  $549,120
5th  $480,480
6th  $411,840
7th  $343,200
8th  $274,560
9th  $205,920
10th  $205,920
11th  $205,920
12th  $205,920
13th  $137,280
14th  $137,280
15th  $137,280
16th  $137,280

Doyle Brunson is now up with the chip leaders after taking a big chunk out of Andrew Bloch's stack.

A rare and beautiful thing occurred - I got right up to where I could see a hand being played out - and it was one in this Stud 8/b round.

The ante is now 1,000, with a 1,500 bring-in and 4,000 completion (the limit being 4k/8k) - so not small potatoes now; it's understandable why they're down to six tables fairly rapidly. 

Anyhow, TJ Cloutier, who has probably 170,000 (although his double cokes in front of his chips make it devilishly hard to tell) was showing 5h 9h against his opponent's 2c Js when I turned up.  It was the latter who was doing the betting, with TJ calling, until they looked like this:

TJ:  5h 9h 3h Qh
Matey:  2c Js Ks Aspades   There was a river bet from TJ, and a rather wistful look at the hand and muck movement as Mr. Cloutier showed the winning down cards of 6s 8d and another low card (blocked by said coca-cola tower).

The $50,000 HORSE tournament, 2006, will NOT be won by a woman.  Annie Duke is OUT.  Down to five tables, and a new table of doom approaches - Doyle Brunson, Tuan Le, Andy Bloch, Patrik Antonius, Lederer, Gavin Smith, Robert Williamson III.  There you have it.

$2,500

9 tables left in the $2,500 6-handed Freezeout.

Amongst that rabble is:

Phil Gordon
William Chen
Harry Demetriou
Alexander Strandli
Joe Beevers

After a bit of a flurry of exits, play has slowed down somewhat and we seem to have returned to the snail's pace of earlier that was threatening us with a very late finish indeed.

37 players remaining

Blinds = 3k/6k

Still pretty slow going

Players still remaining include:

TJ Cloutier
Dewey Tomko
An Tran
Robert Williamson III
Howard Lederer
Patrick Antonius
Andrew Bloch
Doyle Brunson
Minh Ly
Ted Forrest
Chip Reese
Erick Lindgren
Phil Ivey
Freddie Deeb

A couple of late-nite counts for you:

Minh Ly      235,000
Howard Lederer   10,000  - emergency light blinking
Phil Ivey      240,000
Erik Seidel    140,000
Barry Greenstein  110,000
TJ Cloutier      170,000
Freddy Deeb    175,000
Patrick Antonius  360k+

These are conservative guesstimates from a respectful distance from the players... but the idea I got was that Ted Forrest, Doyle Brunson and Patrik Antonius are still in front of the pack.  Any stack under 50k is now in serious trouble.

Shortstack Howard Lederer is now officially OUT.

$2,500

Just spoke to Joe Beevers, who seems pretty pleased with his performance and appears confident for tomorrow.

40 left, with the average around 45k. Joe is on 50k after a couple of interesting hands.

On an agressive table in which the predominant move is the all-in reraise to an initial preflop raise, Joe finds A-Q and makes a raise. Mateyboy reraises and Joe moves all-in. Mateyboy calls and shows pocket tens.

Board is an exciting one!

A-J-6-T-K

Phew, Joe survives and doubles up.

Then, with the blinds at 600/1200 with a 200 ante, Jo limps with pocket sixes (realising that a raise could induce an all-in reraise from a hand like A-T, A-J, etc). The big blind checks.

Flop = A-6-T

Joe prays for a Mateyboy Ace rag hand.

Turn = rag

Joe bets 5k, Mateyboy calls.

River = J

Joe bets again, this time 10k, and Mateyboy calls... again.

Joe wins with a set versus Mateyboy's top pair. Ace-x


So, Joe's above average and in with a great shout of scooping a big prize. He seems happy with his game and is comfortable with his table. He's been dealt no Aces, Kings, Queens, or Jacks, but is still running strong.

Good luck to Joe, nice to see a Brit reaching the nitty gritty.

Some good news now.

They've just created a rail at the back, which means I can get round to Greenstein's table and obtain some chip counts, piccies, etc

The breaking news though has to be that I was able to spot a hand.

Tomko = ? ? Kd 3s Aspades 3d

Antonius = ? ? 7h Qh 4c 4d

The game is Stud.

Tomko sticks in a bet, Antonius reluctantly folds, but shows a Queen in the process.

Joe Cassidy -- 202k
Levi -- 620k
Patrik Antonius -- 610k
Ly -- 85k
Bloch -- 135k
Greenstein -- 283k
Cloutier -- 262k

Captain Tom Franklin is OUT.

Antonius put him down to the felt and Andrew Bloch laid on the finishing touches.

Caught the end of an Eight or Better Stud hand.

On their backs.

Mateyboy = 3d 7h 7c Ahrt 4h Jh 6s

Cong Do = Ad 5h 3h 7h 8d 9d Td

Gavin Smith = Qd Qh 8h 5d Kd 4c 6c

Smith takes the high with a pair of queens, whilst the low goes to Cong Do with A-3-5-7-8

23 players left

Barry Greenstein -- 320k
Chip Reese -- 680k
Rafael Perry -- 330k
Thung -- 102k
Gavin Smith -- 485k
Dewey Tomko -- 247k
Patrik Antonius -- 660k
Andrew Bloch -- 205k
Allen Cunningham -- 135k
Jim Betchel -- 690k
Erik Seidel -- 125k

19 players left

He're a few chippy counts:

Rafael Perry -- 426k
Jim Betchel -- 835k
Barry Greenstein -- 268k
Gavin Smith -- 612k
Dewey Tomko -- 215k
David Levi -- 370k
Chip Reese -- 647k
Patrik Antonius -- 403k
Andrew Bloch -- 505k

Phil Ivey -- 290k
Robert Williamson III -- 295k
David Singer -- 690k

Just witnessed an interesting Omaha Hi-Lo hand.

Board = 2h 5s 6c 4h 2d

Greenstein = Ahrt 6d 2c Qh

Perry-- Ad 3d Jh ?

Greenstein bet every street, and preflop. Perry flatcalled each time, including a 20k bet on the river.

Greenstein takes the high with a boat and Perry the low with A-3, but he was clearly disappointed as he turned the wheel and had Greenstein in a spot of bother.

Onto Razz now and the shortest stack, Allen Cunningham, doubles up courtesy of Cong Do.

Cunningham moves in 15k preflop, Do raises to 30k, Cunningham calls.

All the chips went in by the second exposed card.

(couldn't quite see all seven cards, but it was clear that Do had made a low by the penultimate card.

Cunningham = 6c 8c Qs 7c 2c 4d

Do = Ad 3c Kd Jh 5d 7s

Cunningham is now up to 120k.

Double up for Cunningham after allowing himself to drop down to just 13k.

Action came in the form of Rafael Perry.

Perry = 9s 2s 8h 9s 4h 8s 8c

Cunningham = 3d 2d 5d 7d Ts 5s 3h

The bracelet winner survives.

And we have the 18th finisher - Allen Cunningham who'd dwindled past the danger point and was all-in, with a stud hand of K 3 2 3 10 8 (which actually wouldn't have turned into a good hand in any of the Seven-carders) and he quietly stood up, saying, "Well, I guess that's the end of me..."  A very restrained exit, when Andy Bloch had just said a few minutes earlier in astonishment, "There are actually people here who aren't even getting paid!  Well, maybe they all have a piece of someone..."

In any case it's probably a very tired Allen Cunningham who relinquished the last of his chips with no obvious hard feelings, as Cong Do stacks them.

Your final 16:

Rafael Perry -- 160,000
Patrik Antonius -- 630,000
Andrew Bloch -- 420,000
Barry Greenstein -- 250,000
Robert Williamson III -- 195,000
Phil Ivey -- 305,000
David Singer -- 710,000
TJ Cloutier -- 485,000
Doyle Brunson -- 715,000
Chip Reese -- 750,000
Dewey Tomko -- 255,000
Congo Do -- 105,000
Jo Cassidy -- 320,000
Jim Betchel -- 1,010,000
Gavin Smith -- 525,000

David Singer has just eliminated Congo Do.

Stud High

Andy Bloch loses a 200k pot Tomko.

Winning hand was 6c Jh 6h 6s Js 4h for a full house, sixes over jacks.

Rafael Perry has dribbled down to the felt and looks set to be our 15th place finisher.

Gavin Smith, meanwhile, is repeatedly telling everyone that he's the only one who's been steadily drinking Bacardi through the day, and offering to buy drinks for his fellow players.  In case they don't get the message, he occasionally adds a little phrase like, "I'm three sheets to the wind!"  But louder than the rest at the moment or not, it looks like even Mr. Smith is flagging.

There was a brief harangue of the T.D. on the late shift - something along the lines of, "The biggest event ever, and you're going to make us play for 24 hours straight, so we fit ESPN's filming schedule??"

If that is the only real reason they're still going, then I am as incredulous as they are.

Stud Eight or Better

2 big pots:

(1) Ivey wins a pot after his 60k final bet is called by Singer.

These were the cards I could see:

Ivey = Ad 4d 8h 8c Kd Qd ?

Singer = ? ? 6d 5d 5c Jc ?

Ivey must have made his flush and Singer missed his low draw as all the chips went Ivey's way.

Whilst Singer was pondering the final call, Ivey was truly statuesque, didn't move an inch.

(2) Big pot for Doyle

Brunson = Ad 8d 4s 3s

Williamson = 3c Ahrt Jh Kd

Doyle bets 120k, Williamson folds.

Hold 'Em

decent sized pot

Board = 7-Q-J-J-Q

Tomko bets the river, Cloutier calls with J-5 and wins.

"So, you didn't think I liked that river then," chirps Cloutier.

Cloutier leaps up to 350k

Table 2:

Williamson -- 405k
Bloch -- 470k
Brunson -- 760k
Perry -- 80k
Cloutier -- 350k
Smith -- 280k
Tomko -- 390k
Levi -- 120k

Table 1:

Antonius -- 450k
Ivey -- 800k
Greenstein -- 105k
Cassidy -- 275k
Betchel -- 1.1 mil
Reese -- 780k
Singer -- 630k

2 tables

14 players

Av stack - 510,74

blinds = 10k/20k

Shortstack Barry Greenstein ran out of room to manoeuvre and within three preflop raises (back on the hold'em) he was all-in with Th Js against 7s 7d.
Flop:  Ad Ts Qd
Turn:  2h
River:  9h

And Barry's head is above water with around 150k.  Still short, however.

Cassidy and Greenstein have been eliminated in quick succession.

Ivey took out Cassidy and is now on 530k.

Singer took out Greenstein and is now on 700k.

they're dropping like flies now

Gavin Smith the latest casualty

down to ten, one more left

And with enormous blinds and the game being now Omaha 8/b, Patrik Antonius found himself desperately short, and moved in once, finding a river which brought him a low to chop the pot, and then again.  This second time was more dramatic - he raised on the button, and it was really a 'pass or put him all-in' moment.  All-in it was, as it happens on a flop of 2h 5d 2d.  There really was no option, as he'd left himself less than a big blind (such things happen in Limit).

Turn:  5c
River:  Td  at which point Patrick said simply, "Amazing river."  And it was: it fit his Tc Th perfectly and he doubles up.  Much to our equal delight and chagrin.  OK, unequal.

Omaha Hi-Lo

Big hand involving Betchel and Singer.

finished up as:

Betchel = 6d 8s 3h 4d

Singer = 7d 9c Aspades 3c

Board = 7h 9d 3d Ks 2s

Bechtel wins the low with 4-6 and Singer takes the high with 9-7 (two pair)

After a brief attempt by Doyle Brunson to make the final ten-handed is met with opposition from Phil Ivey and Chip Reese (at which Doyle laughingly said, "Tremble tremble, fear fear fear..." it looks like it's been resolved at last.

Williamson is our TV Bubbler - and we're down to the final Nine!