Still 8 players remain in this $1,500 PLO rebuy event, the chip lead is being almost passed between the players with every hand, so as you may guess, it's all incredibly tight around here.

Super-Draw

Layne Flack raised from the button and Michael Guzzardi moved all-in with A K T 4, Flack called sharpish with his K 9 K 8.

The flop came out Q J 2 giving Flack an unmakeable gutshot straight flush draw, whilst Guzzardi hit a wrap with nut flush draw, at this point, any ace, king, ten or diamond would be good enough to scoop. The turn was the T and despite Flack still looking strong, he was in fact drawing dead, and the 3 on the river confirmed it.

4-Bet FTW

After a few pots for Kyle Kloeckner to take him back to chip leader, he then re-raised Layne Flack's $75,000 initial bet to a total of $245,000. Flack then re-raised to $759,000, almost his entire stack, Kloeckner realised he was going to have to blink first, and then folded, Layne Flack was over $1,000,000 and regained the chip lead.

Italian Rags Take Out American Ladies

Dario Alioto, who looks really dangerous, despite not being the biggest stack here, just knocked out the seemingly permanet short stack, Tim West. Alioto raised with T-9-7-3 and West made the shove with Q-Q-9-6. Committed, the Italian made the call. The board came T-2-T-6-2 and West was out, but taking home a $72,000 payoff with him.

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It didn't take long for the action to begin on the feature table final. Tim West had been the short stack, but he's not the one who has gone surprisingly. Layne Flack has been fairly active and gradually chipping his way upwards, Ted Forrest lost a chunk of his stack trying to steal a pot, but has since recovered some of it.

Viz Is Mis-erable 

Frank Vizza limp-called Dario Alioto's hijack raise. The saw a 9 T 2 flop, Vizza immediately moved all-in, and the WSOP-E PLO winner called just as fast. Vizza showed 6 4 4 3 but was drawing to runner runner against Alioto's K 9 J#3. The turn was the A sealing Vizza's doom, and the river A was meaningless.

Go West

Tim West, who looked like he was in the mood to just slowly ladder his way up, has finally woken up and decided to give it a gamble. Michael Guzzardi gave him a spin.

West: A 4 K T

Guzzardi: K K Q 5

The 9#65 A board meant that Guzzardi had to hit one of his four cards or the short stack would double. It was the J though and Tim West was alive once more.

But I Haz Da Trip Acez

After that loss, Michael Guzzardi found himself being the short stack, and opted to limp re-raise all-in after Dario Alioto had raised. The Italian made the call with a double suited J-7-5-4 against A-A-A-K, which meant Dario was not in terrible shape. A Q-9-6-2-Q board later though, meant that without being involved. Layne Flack was now the chip leader.

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