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Level 9
: 600/1,200, 1,200 ante
Action folded to the player on the button, who opened to 4,100 and received a call from the small blind. Esteban Ochoa was in the big blind and squeezed, three-betting all in for 28,500. The player on the button folded and the small blind quickly called.
Esteban Ochoa: 
Small Blind: 
The player on the button exclaimed that he had folded ace-ten offsuit as well, though it did not matter as the board an out 
bringing two more aces on board to leave Ochoa with trips when all was said and done, good enough for a double along the way.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
62,300 |
. All five players checked to bring the turn 
. The big blind checked to McEwen, and he put out a bet of 8,500. Action quickly folded back to the big blind, who gave his best Hollywood for about 15 seconds before cracking a smile as he sent his cards to the muck. 
as players in middle position and the cutoff both checked to Bill Sadka, who was on the button and bet 6,000. The middle-position player folded and the cutoff called, taking action heads up to the turn 
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, sending him even further ahead with a flopped set of tens. Gauthier then was in need of running cards, and the turn 
gave him one part of that. Even still, he was down to four outs and in need of hitting an eight to score the knockout. He did not do so as the river fell 
to give him the backdoored four-flush, scoring the triple along with it to find new life shortly before the second break of the evening and the subsequent closing of the registration period.
. Action checked to Stroud and he bet 3,000. He received one caller before the turn came 
, giving him an open-ended straight draw. He bet another 6,000 and was called. The river fell 
to give him a straight and he went all in. His opponent called and sent his cards to the muck when Stroud tabled the backdoor straight.
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-offsuit 
and he was down to one card in order to improve to score a third knockout in short span. The river 
fell in his favor to do just that, earning him a third knockout in a short timeframe and bringing him to around 110,000 in chips along the way.
