David Michaud doubled through Richard Mombourquette to leave the latter very short before Paul Spitzberg scored a big double through Anthony Licastro. Spitzberg got his stack in with , and Licastro had
. The board ran out
, and Spitzberg doubled.
One last hand was still to be played before the dinner break, and Mombourquette was all in and at risk for very few big blinds with . Spitzberg had yet another big pocket pair and looked him up with
. After a board of
, Mombourquette headed to the rail to collect $26,148.
The 15 remaining players have $32,995 locked up.