The clock has actually been started and then paused again while we wait for Fabio Coppola to turn up. Let's hope this excellent pace of bust-age continues when he returns though.
Players have agreed to take an 80-minute dinner break and then play three levels in a row once we come back. That will get us back on the "normal" break schedule.
Short-stacked Michael Keiner held on just long enough to earn a few extra dollars. Immediately after the elimination of Mark Gregorich, Keiner was all in against Derek Raymond with . Raymond's ragged hand, , was best on a board that came . He made jacks and eights to best Keiner's eights and fives, and like that -- Keiner is gone.
Mark Gregorich's tenacious hold on this tournament has finally ended. He was all in again, this time for 24,000 preflop, and called by Josh Schlein and Mark Tenner. Tenner bet the flop and the turn before he drove Schlein out of the pot. At the river, on a board of , Tenner showed down for a full house, kings full of eights. That was finally enough against Gregorich, who showed just trip kings with . He's out in 8th place.
We've lost track of how many times Mark Gregorich has been all in. Somehow he always manages to come away with a piece of the pot. This time his qualified for the low half against Mark Tenner's on a board of .
Another chop keeps us on the search for our eighth-place finisher.
After chopping several large pots in a row, Scott Bohlman finally scooped. He was in the small blind and three-bet preflop after Josh Schlein raised the button. Schlein called and then check-called every street, . At showdown, Bohlman opened for two pair, aces and sixes, and the nut low. Schlein mucked his hand.