Event 55 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Holdem Day 6 | 2007 World Series of Poker

07-16-2007 01:41 UTC-7

PokerNews Video: Ali Nejad

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PokerNews spotted poker commentator Ali Nejad hanging around the Rio and decide to grab him for a chat. Ali will be doing commentary for the ESPN pay-per-view live final table broadcast along with Phil Gordon on Tuesday and talked with us about doing commentary without seeing hole cards.

Click here to check out the interview with Ali, along with all the other videos from the Main Event

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07-16-2007 01:37 UTC-7

Players Take a 20-Minute Break

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Right before action is about to resume, the players decide that they feel like taking a break now rather than when the level changes in 12 minutes.

Everyone takes a 20-minute break.

07-16-2007 01:33 UTC-7

Official Final Table Seating & Chip Counts

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Seat 1 - Raymond Rahme - 12.875 million
Seat 2 - Alex Kravchenko - 2.81 million
Seat 3 - Lee Childs - 18.05 million
Seat 4 - Jerry Yang - 6.13 million
Seat 5 - Lee Watkinson - 11.715 million
Seat 6 - Steven Garfinkle - 4.925 million
Seat 7 - Tuan Lam - 20.1 million
Seat 8 - Philip Hilm - 19.31 million
Seat 9 - Jon Kalmar - 20.2 million
Seat 10 - Hevad "Rain" Khan - 11.035 million

07-16-2007 01:27 UTC-7

Final Table Info Coming Soon

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We are still waiting for the players to sort out their seats and their chip counts at the table. With 12 minutes left in the current level, it's likely that they'll take a break when everything is sorted out, and then play straight into the next level until one more player is busted.

Chip counts will be posted as soon as we get them.

07-16-2007 01:25 UTC-7

Scotty Nguyen Takes the Microphone

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Scotty Nguyen having some fun with a cameraman earlier in the day

Scotty Nguyen finishes his ESPN exit interview, and he is handed a microphone to address the crowd. This is nearly word-for-word what he said (you'll have to do your best to imagine it in Scotty's voice):

"First, I want to congratulate all the players here, and I wish the best to all of you. But the most important thing is, I want to thank the fans. Without you guys, we wouldn't have Scotty Nguyen. We're disappointed, but let me tell you, you guys gave me all I need."

At this point, a woman screamed out, "We love you!"

Scotty continued:

"I want to thank ESPN, the Bluff, the whole crews, the whole staff, and everybody here. I wish I could give you more, but for 2007 [he pronounced it as "two-thousand-oh-oh-seven"], that's the end of me. I'll see you back here in 2008."

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07-16-2007 01:18 UTC-7

Final 10 Players Redraw for the Not-So-Final Table

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The players have reached the final table, only we don't call it the final table, because there will be ten players sitting there. The official final table won't begin until Tuesday at 12:00 noon PDT, and it will only have nine players.

Play will continue tonight at this not-so-final final table until one more player is eliminated. Seating and chip counts coming soon.

07-16-2007 01:13 UTC-7

Outer Table: Jerry Yang Wins With Top Pair

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Jerry Yang has the button. Jon Kalmar raises to 450,000 from under the gun. Jerry Yang calls from the button, as does Hevad "Rain" Khan from the small blind. The three players see a flop of...

{Q-Hearts}

Khan and Kalmar both check. Yang bets 1,000,000 and only Kalmar makes the call. It's heads up to the turn card which comes the {A-Spades}

. Both players check. The river brings the {7-Clubs}

. Again, both players check. Yang shows {Q-Spades}

and Kalmar mucks. Yang wins the pot.

07-16-2007 01:13 UTC-7

Featured Table: Scotty Nguyen Eliminated in 11th Place ($476,926)

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Lee Childs has the button in seat 9, Philip Hilm raises under the gun to 480,000, and Scotty Nguyen calls from the big blind. The flop comes {K-Clubs}

, Nguyen moves all in, and Hilm quickly calls.

Nguyen shows {10-Clubs}

for a flush draw, and Hilm shows {K-Spades}

for a pair of kings. Nguyen needs to improve to stay alive.

Most of the people in the crowd are shouting for a club, but one guy shouts "Run it twice!" and he gets a big laugh from the crowd.

The turn card is the {2-Hearts}

, and Nguyen needs a club on the river to survive.

The river card is the {Q-Spades}

, and there is a brief pause as the fans see the black card they were hoping for -- but it's not a club. Philip Hilm wins the pot with two pair, kings and queens.

Scotty Nguyen, the Prince of Poker and the 1998 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion, is eliminated in 11th place, earning $476,926.

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07-16-2007 01:10 UTC-7

Outer Table: Hevad "Rain" Khan Wins a Pot Preflop

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Steven Garfinkle has the button. Action folds around to Lee Watkinson in the cutoff seat who raises to 500,000. Hevad "Rain" Khan reraises to 1,170,000 from the big blind. Watkinson folds and Khan wins the pot.

07-16-2007 01:08 UTC-7