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ElkY
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier is sitting right in front of media row. Given that ElkY is such a known quantity and excellent tournament player, you'd think we would have called his name several times by now. The truth is that ElkY has been quietly chipping up. It may be that he's *too* close to us for us to pay much attention.
ElkY's count stands at 44,000 after eliminating short-stacked player just a few moments ago. The chips were all in the middle preflop, with ElkY tabling the favored hand, pocket tens, against his opponents . The board ran out to give the pot to ElkY.
By the way, if you had "red" in the "What Color Will ElkY's Hair Be Today?" pool, you win.
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Hinrichsen sent packing
Andrew Hinrichsen has recently hit the rail when he was all in preflop holding Queens against an opponent's Ace-rag.
Unfortunately for the PokerStars Qualifier he would be outdrawn once the river was dealt to see him hit the rail.
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Lee Nelson in happier times
"I just knocked out Lee" said fellow Team PokerStars Australia Pro Tony Hachem with a slight hint of sadness in his voice.
Hachem opened to 1,300 from early position before Nelson moved all in for roughly 5,500 from the button. Hachem made the call and the cards were tabled.
Nelson:
Hachem:
The flop of gave Nelson a flush and backdoor straight draw to go along with his two overcards, but when the fell on the turn, followed by the we lost Nelson to the rail.
As Hachem raked in the pot to climb to over 57,000, Terrence Chan commented that if Nelson had folded he too would have gone broke with his short stack and pocket eights.
'Not Johnny' Chan lives on as 'JB' continues his hot 2009 form!
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Corwin Cole is seated to the left of the chip leader, Sida Yuen, and at least for now he's loving it. The two clashed in a pot that had 10,000 chips in it by the river. With the board showing , Yuen bet 7,225. Cole took about 60 seconds before he re-raised all in. Yuen had Cole covered but didn't even think about calling. He quickly folded.
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Andrew Scott was all smiles after sending Zhi Hong Ma to the rail. The two were heads-up by the turn, , with 10,000 chips in the middle already. Scott had placed his whole stack of 25,000 chips in the middle. It was effectively a bet of 15,000, the total number of chips Ma had left.
Ma tanked, and tanked, and tanked some more. There was a three-way all in at a neighboring table that drew lots of attention, but still he tanked. Finally he slammed his whole stack down into the middle.
"I have two pair," Scott calmly said. He showed down . Ma dejectedly showed . The river safely blanked to give Scott a stack of about 50,000 chips.
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. The board ran out 
to give the pot to ElkY.
gave Nelson a flush and backdoor straight draw to go along with his two overcards, but when the 
fell on the turn, followed by the 
we lost Nelson to the rail.
, Yuen bet 7,225. Cole took about 60 seconds before he re-raised all in. Yuen had Cole covered but didn't even think about calling. He quickly folded.
, with 10,000 chips in the middle already. Scott had placed his whole stack of 25,000 chips in the middle. It was effectively a bet of 15,000, the total number of chips Ma had left.
. Ma dejectedly showed 
. The river safely blanked 
to give Scott a stack of about 50,000 chips.
