Event #16: $2,500 H.O.R.S.E.

The players take a 15-minute break before they start playing seven card stud hi-lo. Official chip counts for the final ten players will be posted soon.

Robert Mizrachi just won a pot with      showing against Darrell Dicken's     . Mizrachi bets 12,000 after the last card, and Dicken says, "How do you always catch those cards?" Mizrachi doesn't say anything. Dicken finishes with, "Oh well, I'm calling." Mizrachi quickly shows pocket jacks and says, "Jacks up." Dicken taps the table and says "Two pair," but mucks his cards. Dicken looks at his diminishing chip stack and says, "That's three stud pots in a row you've taken from me." Dicken is down to about 75,000, and Mizrachi is up to about 240,000.

Harry Kazazian is all in with ace high and a gut-shot straight draw. He's behind Walter Browne, who has a pair of nines. The last card is dealt, and Browne shows that he paired his ace -- giving him two pair, aces and nines. Kazazian's only chance is to make his straight. His last card is the  , and he miraculously makes his Broadway ace-high straight to double up to about 52,000. Browne drops down to 175,000.

The game has switched to seven card stud, with a 1,500 ante, a 2,000 bring in, the completion is 6,000, and the limits are 6,000-12,000.

James Richburg (465,000) and Ali Eslami (460,000) are at different tables, but they are nearly tied for the chip lead.

Matt Russell moves all in on fifth street against Ali Eslami and Tom Schneider. Schneider folds, but Eslami calls. The cards flashed quickly, but it looked like Russell made a ten low, beaten by Eslami's seven low. Eslami appeared to have jack low before the final card. Matt Russell is eliminated in 15th place, earning $9,050.

Harry Kazazian: X X      Walter Browne: X X      5th Street: Kazazian bets 12,000, and Browne calls. 6th Street: Browne bets 12,000, and Kazazian thinks for a moment before he folds. Kazazian is left with just 36,000 in chips.

With the final board showing      , Ali Eslami bets 8,000 from the big blind, Matt Russell calls from the under-the-gun position, and Harry Kazazian is shuffling his chips on the button. Kazazian makes a bit of a stutter move, and his chips are out in front of his cards. Eslami takes that as a call and calmly reveals his hand --      for a queen-high flush and an 8-5-4-3-A for the low. But Kazazian immediately says, "What are you doing? I didn't call." Without a moment's hesitation, the dealer calls over the tournament director, and he starts hearing multiple versions of what happened. Kazazian is heated and angry, while everyone else is relatively calm. The dealer points out that Kazazian's chips were out in front of his cards, which, according to the TD, is where the "perimeter" ends. It's a gray area, and since it's ambiguous and another player has acted, he declares it a call and asks the player to put the 8,000 in his hand in the pot. Kazazian continues to argue, claiming he did nothing unusual, while Eslami says, "Look sir, I'm a professional player. I'm not an angle-shooter. I wouldn't have turned over my cards if it didn't clearly look like a call." Kazazian argues a few more minutes until the TD orders him to showdown, and the following hands are shown: The Board:       Ali Eslami:      Matt Russell:      Harry Kazazian:      Eslami takes the high side with a queen-high flush, while Russell and Kazazian split the low side with 8-5-4-2-A. Kazazian and Eslami continue discussin the situation after the hand, but they are both calm and agreeable by this point.