Since the chip lead keeps changing, almost from hand to hand, no one player has managed to gain control over this final table. It looks like it will take two big stacks to butt heads creating one clear big stack for any one player to be the table captain.
Kyle Kloeckner raised to 72,000 from the small blind and Jacobo Fernandez called from the big blind.
The flop came and both checked. The turn was the , and Kloeckner bet 110,000. Fernandez looked back and forth between his stack and Kloeckner's, then let it go.
After a hand in which Ted Forrest raised pot to 84,000 to take the blinds, the following hand took place.
Dario Alioto raised to 65,000 from the button, Tim West reraised all in -- his last 156,000 -- from the small blind, and Daniel Makowsky folded from the big blind. Alioto called.
West:
Alioto:
The flop came , giving Alioto trip tens. The turn was the , and West needed help.
1. Jacobo Fernandez raised to 60,000 from the button, winning the blinds.
2. Dario Alioto raised to 65,000, and it folded to Layne Flack who called from the button. The blinds folded, and the flop came . Both checked. The turn was the . Alioto slowly counted out 90,000 and pushed the orange chips forward. Flack quickly let it go.
3. Flack raised to 70,000 from the cutoff, and Alioto called from the big blind. The flop came and both checked. The turn was the , and they checked again. They both checked the on the river as well. Flack showed for jacks and eights, and took the pot.
Dario Alioto raised to 65,000, and Kyle Kloeckner called from the button. Jacobo Fernandez folded in the small blind, and Layne Flack called from the big blind.
The flop was the . Flack and Alioto checked, and Kloeckner bet 179,000. Both folded, and Kloeckner got a little back.