Jim Bechtel has moved into contention in a big way, by eliminating start-of-day chip leader Carlos Mortensen. The two got it in after an flop, with Mortensen’s dead against Bechtel’s after the turn. Bechtel had Mortensen outchipped by 3,100 and moved all the way up to 51,000 after the meaningless river.
Mortensen finished in fifth, his edifice of grey chips no more.