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We just heard Daniel Negreanu pipe up from the featured table with a remarkable observation.
"You know," he began with his dead-panned tongue in cheek. "These tables are pretty tough. This isn't an easy tournament. There are some good players left."
Our access to the featured table is very limited, so the details for this hand are unfortunately sparse.
What we do know is that Daniel Negreanu got it all in for 360,000 on the turn of a board that looked from afar to read 
. Chance Kornuth had Kid Poker just barely covered, and he looked Negreanu up with 
. Negreanu's 
was the stone-cold nuts, though, and Kornuth was drawing dead to the river 
.
Negreanu has found his big double, moving up into the mix of the chip leaders with about 800,000. Kornuth, on the other hand, is left with just 5,000 lonely chips with which to try and mount a comeback.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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800,000
454,000
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454,000 |
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5,000
-439,000
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-439,000 |
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After getting crushed down to just 5,000 in chips, Chance Kornuth was all in preflop for the last of his money with pocket kings. He was up against Scott Seiver with pocket fours.
The flop, turn and river ran out 
and Kornuth nearly tripled up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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14,000
9,000
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9,000 |
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Chance Kornuth couldn't make the comeback story he had hoped for as he was just eliminated by Mike McDonald.
Kornuth was all in for his last 13,000 with the 
against the 
for Mike McDonald. The board ran out 
and Kornuth headed home in 18th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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Busted | |
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Before the flop, Tom Marchese got his last 76,000 all in from the button with , and that became quite a problem when Jason Mercier called him down with the dominating 
.
Marchese couldn't find any win cards on board, but the 
did allow him to take his money back and chop up the small blind and antes with Mercier.
Action folded to Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier in the cutoff seat and he opened with a raise to 12,000. Galen Hall called on the button and Isaac Haxton called from the big blind.
The three players took the 
flop and Haxton checked. Mercier bet 18,000 and Hall folded. Haxton called.
The paired the board on the turn and Haxton checked again. Mercier upped his bet to 49,000 and fired it out. Haxton called.
The river brought the 
and both players checked.
Mercier tabled the 
for a straight to the eight and Haxton mucked his hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,285,000
-25,000
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-25,000 |
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590,000
150,000
|
150,000 |
|
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| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,190,000
-95,000
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-95,000 |
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930,000
10,000
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10,000 |
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590,000 | |
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275,000
-105,000
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-105,000 |
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100,000
-12,000
|
-12,000 |
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70,000
-88,000
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-88,000 |
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From the cutoff seat, Mike McDonald opened to 14,000, and Scott Seiver flatted next door on the button. In the big blind, Erik Seidel squeezed in a reraise to 50,000 total. That folded McDonald out of the way, but Seiver plucked the calling chips off his stack and dropped them into the pot.
The flop brought , and Seiver called Seidel's 75,000-chip continuation bet. The dropped on the turn, and Seidel wasn't slowing down now. He put out another 160,000 chips, and Seiver looked a bit distraught as he tanked and called off a significant chunk of his remaining stack.
The scary completed the board, and Seidel didn't bother to hide his uncertainty. He shifted in his chair and scratched at his bottom lip as he started down longingly at the board. At one point, he let out a big, telling sigh of confusion, then went back to the lip-scratching and board-staring. After a few long minutes, he checked, and Seiver checked it right back with a sigh of relief.
Seidel could only show down 
for ace-high, and Seiver's 
earned him a nice chip-up.
After the hand, the two men chatted for a bit about what had just transpired. "That was a gift, not a bluff," Seidel said with a smirk. "At least, fourth street was a special gift."
"That was a good first level," Seiver surmised as he stacked up the pot. He's got to be close to 700,000 now, but we'll have to wait a moment to get a better count than that.
Isaac Haxton opened to 16,000 from under the gun, Viktor Blom called on the button and Galen Hall called from the big blind.
The flop came down and Hall checked. Haxton bet 38,000 and Blom called. Hall folded.
The turn was the 
and Haxton checked. Blom fired 86,000 and Haxton made the call.
The river was the to put a full house on board. Haxton and Blom both checked.
Haxton showed the 
with a better full house than the one on board, kings over threes. Blom mucked and Haxton won the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,390,000
200,000
|
200,000 |
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790,000
-140,000
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-140,000 |
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From the button, Jason Mercier min-raised to 12,000. Galen Hall reraised to 38,000 from the small blind. Mercier moved all in and Hall called for 257,000.
Hall: 
Mercier: 
The flop, turn and river ran out 
and Hall's jacks held up to give him the double.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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526,000
251,000
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251,000 |
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330,000
-260,000
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-260,000 |
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