After moving up from a likely 12th place finish and no cash, David Jiang managed to work his short stack up until now. He was eliminated by Chris Moneymaker when the two got all in preflop.
Jiang had and Moneymaker had . Moneymaker hit an ace and finally spelled the end of the day for Jiang.
Jim Keating was eliminated in ninth place after a series of hands that left him with under 70,000. He doubled up David Lackey and a few hands later, Chris Chapman called him down with .
On this hand, Keating had and got all in against Mike Sites, who had .
David Lackey is on good run. He's now over 300,000 for the firs time. On this latest hand, he bet 50,000 on the river and got called by Jim Keating.
Lackey raised Keating on the turn with the board reading . Keating had bet 20,000 and Lackey made it 50,000. Keating called and the river paired the board again with the .
Keating checked and Lackey bet 50,000 again. Keating called and Lackey turned over for sevens full of twos and won the pot. Keating tossed out a two, showing that he had the under boat.
Anthony Vaughn was finally eliminated when he was in the big blind with and only had two big blinds left. David Lackey raised preflop with and got one other caller. On the flop, Lackey bet and Chris Chapman folded leaving Lackey and Vaughn heads up.
A king came on the flop and a queen came on the turn, but Vaughn couldn't catch up by the river and was eliminated in tenth place.
. Moneymaker hit an ace and finally spelled the end of the day for Jiang.
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and got all in against Mike Sites, who had 
flop and checked to Jim Keating. Keating bet 20,000 and Chapman called.
and Chapman checked again. Keating bet 20,000 again and Chapman called.
and both players checked. Chapman showed 
and Keating mucked.
and Moneymaker c-bet to 15,000. Chapman called.
and Moneymaker fired again, making it 25,000 to go. Chapman called.
and Moneymaker bet 60,000. Chapman counted out calling chips, but hesitated and eventually folded.
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for sevens full of twos and won the pot. Keating tossed out a two, showing that he had the under boat.
and only had two big blinds left. David Lackey raised preflop with 
and Lackey checked. Melkersen bet 15,000 and Lackey called.
and Lackey checked again. Melkersen bet about 90,000, enough to put Lackey all in. Lackey called.