In a crazy hand over on table 6, there was a raise to 2,500, two callers, then an all-in, followed by another all-in. The first three players in the pot decided to abandon ship. Hector Jimenez (Passaic, NJ) held AQ and was racing against pocket Jacks.
Hector Jimenez
The board came 7 7 3 Q 4 and Hector caught what he needed on the turn. He more than doubled up to almost 160k and is the unofficial chip leader at this point.
Nine tables remain, so fewer than 90 players are still in the hunt.
One of those players is "Little Joe" Wagner (Zebulon, NC), who says he's grinding it out today. He was down to 12k earlier, but has churned his way back up to ~90k.
There will be a one-hour dinner break coming up at 7:30pm.
