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The few females in this building will be crying salt tears as their eye candy for the day has just departed. The board read when I approached the table, with Peter Gould check-raising Patrik Antonius' bet of 5,125 all in. Antonius tanked for a while, but eventually decided he was ahead and made the call. He wasn't. Gould had ; Antonius . And the river didn't save him.
As Gould raked in the chips - which combined for a 90,000 stack - Antonius rose from his seat, said, "have fun" and quickly left the table.
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David Pham
David 'The Dragon' Pham is down to 4,000 after he ran into . He spiked a lady on a flop, but it wasn't quite enough as the turn and river came and respectively.
Meanwhile, on the same table, Richard Kellett appears to have been eliminated.
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A bit of a disaster for Allen Cunningham, as he check-raised on a flop, only for his opponent Ian Munns to move all in. Cunningham called, and they were on their backs.
Cunningham: for the flush draw
Munns: for the made straight
Turn:
River:
Munns doubled up to 48,000, while Cunningham, looking shell-shocked and depressed, dropped to 16,500. The cameras lost interest at this point.
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Also not doing well -- Beth Shak, who is down to 13,000. We didn't see the hand that did it, but we heard her telling the rest of the table, "I didn't go broke yet"...
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Having raised the button to 2,650, Jason Mercier's neighbour bumped it up to 6,600. After much thought, Mercier deep reached his stack of red 5,000 chips and slid them agressively across the line. His opponent insta-folded, and Mercier breathed a sigh of relief, either because he was worried he'd run into a monster with a vulnerable hand, or he was making a move himself.
As a result, Mercier has extended his lead and now has 135,000, but is sharing a table with the leader of the chasing pack, Sami Kelopuro, who has 110,000.
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After an interesting up-and-down sort of day, November Niner and all-round poker legend Phil Ivey is busto. Former tablemate Ben Grundy filled us in.
It seems that Ivey and Erik Friberg saw a board that was approximately with precisely three spades on it. Ivey got his chips in with a straight (Grundy said it was probably in Ivey's hand) and Friberg was holding the bare . Flush on the river.
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I only caught the very tail end of the hand, but with the board reading and 20-25,000 festering in the middle, Nick Schulman led for 16,000, leaving the decision on Roland De Wolfe.
Despite receiving a massage, De Wolfe looked tense, and genuinely perplexed by the decision ahead: he counted out his chips (46,000 in total), separated out the 16,000, blew out his cheeks... and eventually folded.
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We have a new addition to our reporting team on the floor -- it is Mrs. Docherty, mother to David Docherty, who is patiently and devotedly railing her son.
"There's another player away from this table," she told me (please imagine Scottish accent) -- she indicated the seat formerly occupied by Matt Lagarde.
"Did you see what happened to the small Italian gentleman [Dario Minieri] who was sitting next to the lady [Sandra Naujoks]?" I asked.
"Aye," replied Mrs. Docherty, "He had jack-seven and this man here [unknown player] had ace-queen. He's away too."
Many thanks to Mrs. Docherty for that information.
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Andy Bloch may be gone, but the table hasn't got any easier with two new additions:
Beth Shak -- 18,000
Nikolay Evdakov -- 28,000
Chris Bjorin -- 42,000
Patrik Antonius -- 37,000
Mike Matusow -- 33,000
Joe Beevers -- 60,000
Peter Gould -- 48,000
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when I approached the table, with Peter Gould check-raising Patrik Antonius' bet of 5,125 all in. Antonius tanked for a while, but eventually decided he was ahead and made the call. He wasn't. Gould had 
; Antonius 
. And the 
river didn't save him.
. He spiked a lady on a 
flop, but it wasn't quite enough as the turn and river came 
and 
respectively.
for the flush draw
for the made straight
with precisely three spades on it. Ivey got his chips in with a straight (Grundy said it was probably 
and 20-25,000 festering in the middle, Nick Schulman led for 16,000, leaving the decision on Roland De Wolfe.
