03-05-2010 11:17 UTC-12

Lindgren Survives to End Clubs Matches

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Erick Lindgren

A ripple of astonishment went through the crowd when Erick Lindgren and Dan Ramirez finally got all the chips in. Incredibly, both showed up with a premium hand! Lindgren tabled {A-Clubs}

{A-Clubs}

{k-Spades}

while Ramirez showed down {Q-Clubs}

{Q-Clubs}

{Q-Spades}

.

"I was trapping him," joked Lindgren.

With the crowd on its feet, it was Lindgren who hit the flop, pairing kings {k-Spades}

{k-Spades}

{9-Clubs}

{4-Clubs}

. He made two pair with the turn {A-Diamonds}

{A-Diamonds}

and was on to Day 2 when the river bricked {5-Diamonds}

{5-Diamonds}

. It was a crushing defeat for the qualifier Ramirez, who literally took the tough Lindgren all the way to the wire.