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Claiming he has somewhere to be, Gabriel Xiourouffa is betting up a storm. Is it a ploy, or does he have a prior engagement?
Matt Hilger makes it $16,000 in late position and is called by Andy Gelfand in the cutoff. Gabriel makes it $200k from the BB and both players fold. The very next hand it is folded to Gabriel in the SB and he moves all in, seemingly without looking at his cards!
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The button is on Karim in Seat 5. Gabriel Xiourouffa makes it $25,000 in middle position. Joe Pua reraises to $80,000 from the cutoff. Andy Gelfand moves all in from the BB for $140k and takes down over $100,000
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Holding around $20,000, George Tsakrios makes a $10,000 raise from the cutoff. Karim Jomeen moves all in from the SB and George puts in the rest of his stack.
George opens the , but Karim has the .
The flop is AKQ, giving both players a pair!
The Turn and River bring no change and George is eliminated in 9th position picking up $8,240
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Shuffle up and deal - the Final Table of the opening event is under way.
Seating positions are as follows:
1st 346,000 Gabriel Xiourouffa
2nd 169,000 Paul Effeney
3rd 38,000 George Tsakrios
4th 252,000 Kin Joh Pua
5th 103,000 Karim Jomeen
6th 259,000 Matthew Hilger
7th 122,000 Andrew Gelfand
8th 86,000 Michael Harrisonford
9th 170,000 Zhi Hong Ma
The blinds have been wound back two levels to $2000/4000 with a $500 Ante.
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, but Karim has the 
.
and River 
bring no change and George is eliminated in 9th position picking up $8,240
and Paul bets out $20,000.