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33rd Place - Christian Togsverd
On the Featured Table, Jon Kalmar has the button in seat 3, Kenny Tran raises from early position to 180,000, Tuan Lam calls from middle position, Stefan Mattson calls from the small blind, Christian Togsverd moves all in from the big blind for about 1.8 million, Tran folds, and Lam thinks for a few minutes before he calls. Mattson quickly folds.
Togsverd shows , and Lam shows . Togsverd needs to improve to survive.
The flop comes , and Lam flops a set of queens to take a dominant lead in the hand. Togsverd needs something runner-runner to survive.
The turn card is the , and Togsverd is drawing dead. (The meaningless river card is the .) Lam wins the pot with his set of queens.
Christian Togsverd is eliminated in 33rd place, earning $285,678.
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After David Tran raised to 175,000, Jason Welch and Jeff Bryan called from the blinds. The flop came and after Welch and Bryan checked Tran led out for 285K. Welch folded and Bryan called.
The fell on the turn and Bryan again checked. Tran bet 625,000 and Bryan moved all-in for an additional 1.215 million. Tran mucked and Bryan took down a huge pot.
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On the Featured Table, Lee Childs has the button in seat 2, Jerry Yang raises to 150,000, Jon Kalmar reraises from the small blind to 625,000, and Yang calls. The flop comes , Kalmar checks, Yang bets 900,000, and Kalmar folds. Yang takes the pot worth 1.4 million.
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34th Place - Hoa Nguyen
Featured Table Hand #1 - Hoa Nguyen has the button in seat 9, he raises to 160,000, and Lee Childs calls from the big blind. The flop comes , Childs checks, Nguyen bets 225,000, Childs raises to 500,000, and Nguyen goes in the tank. (While Nguyen is quietly thinking, everyone in the Featured Table Arena can hear somebody cheering for themselves during an all-in situation at one of the outer tables.)
After about two minutes, Nguyen calls.
The turn card is the , Childs bets 450,000, and Nguyen thinks for about a minute before he calls. There is already 2.34 million in the pot.
The river card is the , Childs checks, Nguyen moves all in for 1,085,000, and now it's Childs' turn to stop and think.
This has been a very slow hand, but understandably so. The cards were in the air over ten minutes ago.
After about two more minutes, Childs calls. Nguyen shows for two pair, fives and deuces. Childs excitedly shows for two pair, nines and deuces, and he wins the pot.
Hoa Nguyen is eliminated in 34th place, earning $285,678.
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Robin Bergren - 36th Place
Two players were eliminated on the first hand. With the shortest stack remaining, Robin Bergren shoved from UTG for 560,000. In middle position, Allan King called. Roy Winston moved all in for 1,700,000. King called.
Bergren:
King:
Winston:
The flop was . The turn was the . The river was the . Winston won with a full house as Bergren and King headed to the rail. Bergren and King both won $285,678.
Paulo Loureiro, who was at the cut off, said that he folded pocket Jacks in that hand.
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The ESPN Featured Table is Table #4 at the start of the day, with a lot of mid-level chip stacks. Nobody's particularly short, but none of the huge stacks are here either. There should be a lot of play.
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Before play started Kevin Kim traded three of his 25,000 chips for 5,000's, because he's short-stacked and he hopes that having more chips in front of him (even if they're of lesser value) will be more intimidating to his opponents. We'll see how well that works.
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, and Lam shows 
. Togsverd needs to improve to survive. 
, and Lam flops a set of queens to take a dominant lead in the hand. Togsverd needs something runner-runner to survive. 
, and Togsverd is drawing dead. (The meaningless river card is the 
.) Lam wins the pot with his set of queens. 
and after Welch and Bryan checked Tran led out for 285K. Welch folded and Bryan called.
fell on the turn and Bryan again checked. Tran bet 625,000 and Bryan moved all-in for an additional 1.215 million. Tran mucked and Bryan took down a huge pot.
, Kalmar checks, Yang bets 900,000, and Kalmar folds. Yang takes the pot worth 1.4 million.
, Childs checks, Nguyen bets 225,000, Childs raises to 500,000, and Nguyen goes in the tank. (While Nguyen is quietly thinking, everyone in the Featured Table Arena can hear somebody cheering for themselves during an all-in situation at one of the outer tables.) 
for two pair, nines and deuces, and he wins the pot. 
. The turn was the 
. The river was the 
. Winston won with a full house as Bergren and King headed to the rail. Bergren and King both won $285,678.
