Moneymaker Eliminated from Day 1a
Level 11
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Chris Moneymaker was spotted exiting the tournament area. He was kind enough to explain the key hands that resulted in his elimination.
Firstly after two limps, he raised from the small blind with 
. The big blind called as did the limpers. After a single opponent called Moneymaker's 8,000 bet on the 
flop, he continued for 15,000 on the 
turn.
His opponent shoved for 50,000 and Moneymaker called, only to be shown 
for a straight.
He was down to around six big blinds, and got them in over three limpers with 
only for the first limper to have 
"I'll be back in 15 minutes," said Moneymaker, who will try his luck in the Day 1c flight which gets underway at 18:00.
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gave the shortest stack a straight draw and the 
improved him to a flush draw. The river was the 
and Gusetoiu tripled up.
with the two player who tanked pre-flop both bemoaning having not called with king-queen and ace-queen respectively.
