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With the aim to reach the final table, it was always thought to be a long shot when 111 players took to the felt this afternoon.
However after losing four tables over the first four levels of play, and only another seven needed to reach the final table . . . anything is a possibility!
The only downside however is that the average stack is still a whopping 45,000-big blind deep meaning that nearly everyone is well equipped to handle a pot lost here and a bad beat there.
Stay tuned to PokerNews as we countdown to crowning the 2009 Lebanese Poker Champion!
. The first two players checked, and Sevag Heybelian put out a bet of 20,000. After a bit of head shaking and sideways glancing, Georges Ghassan check-raised all in for a total of 47,900. Ibrahim Ghassan folded out of the way, and when Heybelian called, it was heads up for the other Ghassan's tournament life.
filled him up, dodging the two-out ace to double his way up over 120,000.
. Rahme's aces held, earning him the knockout and a chip-up to 69,000.
. Finding his third of a kind, Georges has picked up a crucial double up, working his short stack up to a respectable 32,000. Hum, opn the other hand, has been sliding today. He's down to 65,000, about half of his start-of-day count.
to see Bitar double through to 27,000 as Ghazaleh slipped to 95,000 and change.
