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Derric Haynie opened to 24,000 with the button and Annette Obrestad defended from the big blind.
Both players checked the 
flop and the 
on the turn, but after Obrestad checked the 
on the river Haynie fired 33,000. Obrestad thought for a second before calling.
Haynie tabled 
for a pair of sevens and Obrestad mucked her hand. With the hand Haynie is back above 400,000 chips.
It folded to Annette Obrestad who raised from the button, and only Jeffrey King called from the big blind.
The flop came 
. King checked, and Obrestad continued for 15,000. King then check-raised to 40,000, and Obrestad didn't wait long before pushing out a large stack of green (25,000) chips to reraise enough to put King all in. He paused a beat, then let his hand go.
Obrestad has chipped back up to 475,000 now, while King is down to 153,000.
Alex Keating is on the rail for Michael Pesek, and whenever he rakes in a pot, raises, calls, shuffles chips or even folds, Keating religiously chants, "Pancakes! Pancakes! Pancakes!"
Don't ask, we don't know either.
In a recent hand Pancakes...err Pesek opened to 27,000 from the hijack seat and Johnny Kitchens called with the button. The blinds released, and the dealer flopped 
. Both players checked.
The turn was the 
and Pesek checked again. Kitchens fired 33,000 this time and Pesek folded.
Pesek slipped to 360,000 chips and don't call it a comeback for Kitchens, he's back up to starting stack.
Some spectators on the rail were just cheering on players at Table 375, including one who shouted to Annette Obrestad that he wanted her to win.
"I can't win for about eight hours anyway," she called back, suggesting patience is the word for the time being. "At least seven," was the response from the rail.
Meanwhile over on the other table, Dustin Dirksen and Reagan Leman were watching the sports highlights go by a little while ago on the big screen television nearby. The pair were marveling at highlights of that incredible Wimbledon tennis match today between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut, the one which was finally suspended because of darkness after the pair had played more than ten hours, with the fifth set still tied at 59-59!
We'll see how long this one takes. The blinds are now 6,000/12,000 (with a 2,000 ante), and they are playing six-handed (for now), so the shorter stacks will only be able to be patient for so long.
Brett Shaffer moved into the chip lead during the second hour, and Justin Scott and Paul Varano added significantly to their stacks as well. Meanwhile, Annette Obrestad slipped back just a bit toward the latter part of Level 2.
Brett Shaffer -- 950,000
Justin Scott -- 773,000
Paul Varano -- 759,000
Dustin Dirksen -- 628,000
Reagan Leman -- 538,000
Steven Kelly -- 473,000
Michael Pesek -- 445,000
Johnny Kitchens -- 367,000
Michael Cooper -- 348,000
Derric Haynie -- 341,000
Annette Obrestad -- 339,000
Jeffrey King -- 233,000
Level: 3
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 2,000
Players are now on a 20 minute break.
It folded around to Dustin Dirksen in the small blind who casually tossed out a raise to 20,000. Reagan Leman looked at Dirksen. "I better be careful," he said as he made the call. "You're running hot." Dirksen grinned in response.
The flop came 
and Dirksen quickly bet 40,000. Leman laughed and folded his pocket eights face up. Dirksen just nodded. "I hit that flop extremely hard," he assured Leman, who continued to chuckle.
Both players have had good starts to their Day 3, perhaps encouraging their blind-vs.-blind banter. Dirksen has 665,000 at the moment, and Leman 595,000.
(Incidentally, Steven Kelly was moved over to Table 376 to balance the tables following Tran's elimination, and where he is sitting in between Justin Scott and Dirksen.)
After being crippled the previous hand, J.C. Tran is now eliminated from the tournament after losing a flip against Reagan Leman.
Action folded to Leman who raised to 27,000 on the button. Brett Shaffer surrender his small blind and Tran moved all in for less than a min-raise, 26,000, from the big blind. Reagan called.
Showdown
Leman: 
Tran: 
The flop was horrendous for Tran: 
. Tran grabbed his bag as the turn and river came 
, 
respectively and b-lined for the cashier.
It just wasn't in the cards for Tran today, and he will have to settle with a 13th place finish.
