Lone Star Poker Series Champions Social

Action in Level 19 (10,000/20,000/20,000)

Meraf Haile's decent stack evaporated in the course of a few minutes after he lost a couple of preflop all ins.

In the first one, he three-bet over the raise from Clinton Phillip. Phillip moved all in and was called. Haile was in trouble as he had the against the [ac1h] of Phillip.

The board ran out to give Phillip the double up and wound Haile.

A few hands later, Mitchell Bono eliminated Haile when his pocket sixes held up in a preflop all in against the king-queen of Haile to send Haile away in 16th place.

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Action in Level 19 (10,000/20,000/20,000)

In a preflop all in Duc Le had the lead with the against the of Tyler Thompson.

The board would give Thompson no help as it ran out and the field was cut to two tables as Le surged in chips.

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Action in Level 18 (8,000/16,000/16,000)

Justin Osbourne has been on fire so far today and added more chips to his stack when he made a bet of 215,000 into a pot of roughly 350,000 on a board that read .

Jerry Ehrhardt had the decision on his plate. He stewed things over for while before folding his hand.

Osbourne showed just one card a and collected the pot to move toward the top of the chip counts.

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Action in Level 17 (6,000/12,000/12,000)

The flop read . Dana Olson bet 27,000 over to James Sunwoo who raised to about 90,000.

Olson three-bet all in and Sunwoo snap called.

Olson flipped over the overpair while Sunwoo had the lead with the flopped two-pair of .

The turn was the and the rover came the to hold for Sunwoo and give him a big double up.

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Three players have currently reached or are hovering around the one million chip mark and are the big stacks in the room in Level 17 (6,000/12,000/12,000)

The remaining 28 players are now on their first 15-minute break of the day.