There are now seven players remaining in Event 18 ($240 Pot-Limit Omaha), and two of them were eliminated on the same hand leading into the break.

Three players got it all in after a flop of . Here were their cards, in descending order of chip stacks:

Seth Weinberg:    (Wrap straight draw)
Kevin Spires:    (pocket aces w/ a pair of sixes)
Brandon Navarrete:    (pair of queens)

The turn was the , the river was the , and Weinberg won the pot with a seven-high straight to eliminate Spires in 8th place and shorter-stacked Navarrete in 9th.

At that point, the players took their break. Here are the official chip counts as the blinds increase to 6,000-12,000:

Seat 1.  Mark Wahba  –  393,000  (32 bb)
Seat 3.  Seth Weinberg  –  1,034,000  (86 bb)
Seat 4.  Barry Roth  –  346,000  (28 bb)
Seat 5.  Vinny Pahuja  –  386,000  (32 bb)
Seat 7.  Mike Wakefield  –  772,000  (64 bb)
Seat 9.  Errol Massey  –  195,000  (16 bb)
Seat 10.  Gabriel Ramos  –  103,000  (8 bb)

8th:  Kevin Spires  –  $1,010
9th:  Brandon Navarrete  –  $727
10th:  George Roussos  –  $566