We've lost one of the two remaining well-known pros in the field. Marcel Luske is the last hope both for name pros and the Dutch, but he's got some work to do to catch up.

Corkins falls just short of bracelets two years running. 

Hoyt Corkin’d! (4th)

When the game came back to Hold’em it was time for a true showdown between Marcel Luske and Hoyt Corkins. The preflop betting was capped, and three bets was all it took to get Corkins all-in on the A K 10 board. Corkins had K Q for second pair and a gutshot straight draw, but Luske was ahead with A 9.

The Dutchamn picked up trips with the A on the turn, and the 3 on the river resigned Corkins to 4th place. He wins $$81,698.

Luske in Trouble

The Flying Dutchman’s sails have taken a beating since he knocked out Hoyt Corkins.

First he called all the way down to the river and folded in a hand where Jens Voertmann hit a flush and Doug Ganger called the river. Then Luske took a hit in an O8 hand where he hit the king-high flush but was outdone by Ganger’s sixes full of eights.

Two more big pots went against Luske, one each to Voertmann (O8) and Ganger (Stud). He found himself down to just $265,000, in big danger of being eliminated with the limits moving up to $25,000-$50,000. Luckily for him, the cards after returning from the break have been good to him in the Stud round, bringing him back up to $400,000 in chips.

Lift Yr Skinny Chip Counts Like Antennas to Heaven

Here are the current chip counts, according to WorldSeriesOfPoker.com:

You might expect a limit game to go slower, but we’ve been moving along at a pretty good clip today. Only four players now remain in this HORSE race.

Zolotow Zonked! (6th)

Finding himself short-stacked, Steve Zolotow got himself all-in on a Stud hand on fourth street with a split pair of nines. By that point Hoyt Corkins already had four cards to a spade flush:

Zolotow: (3 9) 9 A
Corkins: (K 6) 5 8

Hoyt bricked on fifth and sixth streets but caught the A on the river to send Steve Z to the rail in 6th place. He takes home $47,990.

Davis Demolished! (5th)

On the same round of Stud as Zolotow’s elimination, Jared Davis tangled with Jens Voertmann. He bet his Q 6 10 6 board and was raised all-in by Voertmann, who showed A 8 5 6. Davis called, only to find out that Voertmann had locked up the pot with three aces.

Davis takes 5th place for $61,702.

The Not-So-Feature Table

The feel of this HORSE final table is very different from that of the NLHE events held on the ESPN set. All of the nearby tables are empty, save one where the tournament staff is doing its thing. The rail is set quite a bit further back than some of the other final tables, and there are fewer railbirds than you would've found at, say, yesterday's PLO final table won by Vanessa Selbst.

With all the cushion around the table, the feel is almost that of a home game. The players are all without distractions, focused on the task at hand, and looking for a way to take down the bracelet.

Everybody Wants to Rule the Chip Counts

Here are the current standings according to WorldSeriesOfPoker.com: