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likes his steak wheldon
After starting the day with 20,700, Graham Wheldon has battled his way up to the 75,000 mark and now boasts three tall columns. In his own words, "I had an early double-up with eights versus sixes, but apart from that, it's mainly been smaller pots. I haven't been all in since."
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I don't have Barry many chips left
Barry Greenstein made it 10,000 from mid position and David Steicke flat-called on the button, leading them to the flop.
Greenstein bet out 13,000 and again, Steicke just called. They both checked the turn, and Greenstein fired out another 20,000 on the river, leaving himself just 25,000 behind. Steicke, once more, flat-called.
Greenstein:
Steicke:
A disaster for a crippled Greenstein, while Steicke steams ahead on 155,000.
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A gentleman raised to 8,000 preflop and Glen Bean called. Daniel O'Brien made it 30,000 from the small blind; the original raiser got out of the way, and Bean called.
O'Brien bet out 24,000 on the flop, and Bean raised another 30,000. O'Brien moved in for just 7,000 more than the raise, and Bean called.
Bean:
O'Brien:
Turn:
River:
A double-up to around 200,000 for O'Brien, and a dejected Bean is left with just small change -- around 11,000.
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Matthew LaGarde is now your current chip leader with a little over 300,000. With a huge pot forming preflop, LaGarde found himself reraising all in from the button with K-J, only to run into the small blind's pocket rockets.
A king on the flop gave LaGarde a glimmer of hope, but that glimmer soon turned into a Luxor-esque beam of light as he made two pair on the river of a 3-5-K-7-J board.
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Uproar on Andrew Jeffreys' table -- he'd just been dealt pocket kings when a misdeal was declared, and he was jumping around in fairly good-natured exasperation. It seems that the dealing had started at the wrong seat and the hands were therefore dealt to the wrong people. As Jeffreys sat back down to await a new deal, another dealer was muttering that the dealer's decision to call a misdeal was the wrong one, and he should have called the floor over.
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The hair is down
Maria "Maridu" Mayrinck is probably our climber of the hour -- down to just 5,000 during the bubble-time hand-for-hand play, she is now back up to 91,000 and beaming. "I think I'm the only woman left," she tells us on a stroll to the press desk. (She's right.) "And I just let my hair down!"
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The wonderfully named Loyal Sprague has been eliminated from today's event in 71st place, as has former WSOP finalist from earlier in the week, Glen Bean.
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Chris Bjorin was the man who eliminated Will Failla, the serial WSOP finalist, calling Failla's all-in preflop and seeing his tens hold up against A-Q on a 7-2-4-J-K board.
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Paul Smith raised to 8,000 UTG, only for Kent Washington to reraise to 30,000. It folded around to Smith, who went all in for another 47,000. Washington thought about it for a long time, before calling him with pocket nines. Unfortunately for Washington, Smith had pocket aces. No nines or other small miracles on the board, and Smith enjoyed a full double up to 188,000, while Washington was down almost to the felt.
And indeed, the very next hand Washington stuck it in with J-Q and got himself called by A-K -- with no help from the board, he is now OUT.