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Event 8 - $100,500 No Limit Holdem

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Erick Lindgren wins $1,000,000

Posted 01-12-2007 15:03 GMT by Reporter

Erick Lindgren - 1st Place

After wearing Erik Seidel down for the better part of an hour, Erick Lindgren finally gets all of Seidel's chips in the middle pre flop. Seidel flips over

, while Lindgren is in the lead, as he shows

. the flop

brings some hope, but brickage on the turn

and river

ends Seidel's night, and makes Erick Lindgren $1,000,000 richer. Seidel receives $550,000 for his second place finish.

Tags: Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel.

Lindgren Doubles Up to Take Chip lead.

Posted 01-12-2007 14:24 GMT by Caldwell

Erik Seidel makes it 90,000 to go, and Erick Lindgren moves all in. Seidel takes some time, but eventually calls, and shows

. Lindgren turns up

, and is in business. A board of

changes nothing, and Erick Lindgren has doubled up to take a two to one chip lead

Tags: Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel.

Heads Up

Posted 01-12-2007 14:08 GMT by Caldwell

We are now heads up. The format of the tournament is now no-limit all the time (it was pot limit before the flop until now)

New Chip counts are posted.

Tags: Heads up.

Masaaki Kagawa 3rd place

Posted 01-12-2007 14:07 GMT by Caldwell

After watching his chip stack dwindle for the better part of two hours, Masaaki Kagawa decided to re-raise Erik Seidel with

for the last of his chips. Seidel made the call with

, and the race was on. A board of

changed nothing, and Masaaki Kagawa was our third place finisher, and picked up $250,000 for his efforts.

Tags: Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel.

Level 11 started

Posted 01-12-2007 13:40 GMT

Level:: 11

Blinds:: 15000/30000

Ante:: 0

As the evening wears on, Erick Lindgren has bought a round of beers for the rail. he looked at the floorman, and said "I'd like 31 beers - one for me, and 30 for the rail.' TD Brett Jones obliged, and everyone on the rail has a drink.

Tags: Erick Lindgren.

Chip Counts

Posted 01-12-2007 13:39 GMT by Reporter

Chip Counts are updated, as the players have gone on a 15 minute break.

When we return, the blinds will be 15,000/30,000.

Tags: break.

Leaking....

Posted 01-12-2007 13:34 GMT by Reporter

Masaaki Kagawa is beginning to leak away his chips. he got clipped for 200k when Erik Seidel re-raised his re-raise pre-flop, and he layed it down. Masaaki has slowly but surely bled chips, and is now the short stack.

Tags: erik seidel, masaaki kagawa.

Level 10 started

Posted 01-12-2007 13:00 GMT

Level:: 10

Blinds:: 10000/20000

Ante:: 0

Shifting the chips around

Posted 01-12-2007 12:34 GMT by Reporter

We're seeing flops on at least 1/2 the hands, but no really big pots. Seidel and Lindgren are in a race to see who can get into the pot with Masaaki first. At one stage, the chips got to almost dead even. Chip counts have been updated.

Tags: Erick Lindgren, Erik Seidel, Masaaki Kagawa.

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