Another Big Pot
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Whilst the rail around Phil Ivey was heaving earlier today, little will they have known that just two tables down sat a man who'd won almost as many bracelets. In fact, if I asked everyone in this building I'd imagine only a small percentage would be able to put a name to the face. But, with six bracelets, Jay Heimowitz is someone who certainly deserves our respect, and I bet he would have a few stories to tell about how Vegas 'used to be'.
Today, Heimowitz is after bracelet number seven, and with 32,000 he could well be in with a chance. On the very last hand before the break, Heimowitz was involved in a monstrous pot which saw four separate stacks find their way into the middle. I joined the table late, but fortunately Paul Parker was at hand to describe the action, and it was so frantic that it would be best served in list format:
Seat 8 raised.
Seat 9 (Heimowitz) called
Seat 2 reraised
Seat 3 (Charles Alexandre Sylvestre) called
Seat 4 (Jeff Banghart) re-reraised
Seat 8 folded
Heimowitz called
Seat 2 called all in
Seat 3 called
Phew.
Flop: 
The flop was a rather more simple affair, Banghart announcing all-in and Sylvestre making the call, albeit with a sigh. Either way, we finally had a showdown:
Seat 2: Didn't show
Sylvestre: 
Banghart: 
Heimowitz: 
The 
turn and 
river meant three things:
(1) Seat 2 and Banghart were eliminated.
(2) Sylvestre and Banghart chopped the pot
(3) Sylvestre is now one of the chip leaders with 51,500 and heads into the dinner break with a smile that would take a crowbar and a tub of Vaseline to remove.