Powell Slides Again; Fleyshman Takes the Lead
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Dan Fleyshman opened to 30,000 in early position, and he found calls from Brian Powell (cutoff) and Marc Inizan (button). The three men took a flop of 
, and Fleyshman continued out with a bet of 55,000. Powell called and Inizan ducked out, and it was heads up the rest of the way.
The 
landed on fourth street, and Fleyshman doesn't have a "slow down" button. He fired out another 100,000 chips, and Powell considered for maybe ninety seconds before making the call again.
That brought them to the 
river, and Fleyshman leaned forward to stare at Powell's stack. He asked him how much he was playing (about 325,000 behind) before making one final bet of 110,000. That would send Powell deep into the think tank as he prodded Fleyshman for information. The two men bantered back and forth for a couple long minutes, with occasional nervous smiles flashing across each of their faces at different stages along the way. Powell couldn't get Fleyshman to answer the "What do you have?" question, so he called to find out for sure.
Fleyshman tabled 
, and Powell flung his second-best hand high into the air and into the muck. That second big hit knocks Powell all the way back to just 210,000, while Fleyshman has taken over the chip lead with about 1.8 million.