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Rob Heroy will undoubtedly be disappointed about coming up short of today's final table. He's just been eliminated by Carman Cavella. Heroy opened for 17,500, then shipped for 142,000 after Cavella three-bet the small blind to 51,000. Cavella snap-called with and found himself sitting pretty against Heroy's . Heroy needed help, but it was only Cavella who improved on a board of .
The rich get richer -- Cavella's tournament-leading stack is now up to 910,000, while Heroy is left to wonder what could have been.
MarcC
Peter Radonjic raised it up before Mathieu Clavet set him all in trying to force him off the pot. Radonjic was having none of it and called for the rest of his chips with . Clavet was behind but live with as the board came . Two pair good for the pot and a new stack of 310,000. Clavet down to 190,000.
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It's mostly preflop action at this point of the tournament. Joe Parille got his stack in the middle preflop ahead of Bobby Firestone, with Parille's the favorite over Firestone's . He secured a pot worth 194,000 chips when the board came .
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Win a flip and continue in the tournament; lose a flip and go home. For Ward Crane, it was the latter. He got his very short stack in the middle with ; Bryn Kenney got in there with pocket nines. Pocket nines were good when the board bricked out.
MarcC
Edward Sukkar has just been eliminated over the course of two hands. It was the first hand that did the major damage as he doubled up Jack Densing whilst holding to Densing's in a blind battle. The chips went in on a flop and the deal was sealed when the fell on the turn. That sent Densing up to 225,000.
The Sukkar got the rest in and was called by two players but it was chip leader, Carmen Cavella, who struck the killer blow making a flush to take the three way pot and see his stack rise to over a million.
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It took Peter Gould two hands to get Mathieu Clavet, but he did knock Clavet out of the tournament. The first hand was about what you'd expect at this stage: all in with pocket queens for Gould and for Clavet. Gould made a full house by the turn to cripple Clavet to 20,000.
Clavet was soon all in with . Gould got in there again, this time with . He flopped a king, but Clavet flopped a gutshot straight draw. It never filled.
MarcC
We're still spread over three tables right now and there will be a standard table redraw when we reach 12 players. In an unusual step we will then merge to one table when 7 players remain. Some players had expressed concern about having a 3 handed and a 4 handed table. There would be the potential of collusion against a short stacked player at the 3 handed table for example.
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Praz Bansi has clearly used several of his nine tournament lives during the course of the day. He was all in again, with against Allan Puzantyan's . No help on the flop for Bansi, but he turned the to make a set that held up when the river bricked.
Puzantyan is down to 65,000; Bansi is now on 360,000.
MarcC
A small bit of controversy happened just before the break. Peter Radonjic made a raise to 25,000 from the button before Allan Puzantyan teased his stack back and forth without announcing if he was all in or not. He eventually left it forward but Radonjic was not happy and called the floor as he thought it was a type of string bet. The floor agreed and he was given a one hand penalty. His all in bet for this hand stood though.
The raise was 53,000 more and Radonjic made the call with and was shown the inevitable that held up. Radonjic on 300,000 to Puzantyan's 170,000.
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and found himself sitting pretty against Heroy's 
. Heroy needed help, but it was only Cavella who improved on a board of 
.
. Clavet was behind but live with 
as the board came 
. Two pair good for the pot and a new stack of 310,000. Clavet down to 190,000.
the favorite over Firestone's 
.
; Bryn Kenney got in there with pocket nines. Pocket nines were good when the board bricked out.
in a blind battle. The chips went in on a 
flop and the deal was sealed when the 
. Gould got in there again, this time with 
. He flopped a king, but Clavet flopped a gutshot straight draw. It never filled.
against Allan Puzantyan's 
to make a set that held up when the river bricked.
