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The World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic continued on Friday as the remaining 49 players of a 413-player field marched toward the final table. Unfortunately, they couldn’t quite get there as 13 players ended up surviving the day. Among them is chip leader Soi Nguyen, who bagged up 3.1 million. His closest competitor is Andrew Lichtenberger (2,114,000), and a laundry list of pros round out the top 13 including David Williams, Vanessa Selbst, William Reynolds, and Antonio Esfandiari, with the latter looking to defend his Five Diamond title.

Nguyen, a former World...