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It's that time again -- time to take a look at the top ten chip stacks in the room, courtesy of worldpokertour.com. Kofi Farkye remains the chip leader.
1. Kofi Farkye - 533,000
2. Dan O'Brien - 410,000
3. Mike Sowers - 405,000
4. Jason DeWitt - 364,000
5. Donald D'Auria - 350,000
6. Peter Feldman - 306,000
7. Anthony Venturini - 300,000
8. Antonio Esfandiari - 296,000
9. Chris Karagulleyan - 268,000
10. Chris Ferguson - 255,000
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As we approach the next break, Kofi Farkye shows no signs of slowing down. He's up to 526,000 after taking a small pot away from Dan Shak with a bet of 6,000 on the turn of a board.
David Chiu, on the other hand, is losing ground. He bet 30,000 on a board of , then tanked for two minutes after his lone opponent check-raised to 80,000. Chiu ultimately decided to look for a better spot, folding and preserving his stack at 90,000.
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Four hearts on the board were apparently too scary for Haralabos Voulgaris' opponent. He was forced to act first at the river, , and led out for 11,500. Voulgaris nonchalantly pushed three stacks of three orange chips across the betting line, a raise to 45,000. That was enough to take down the pot.
Voulgaris' stack has been floating in the 200,000-250,000 range all day. Right now he's on 225,000.
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The next table to break is probably the most interesting -- seated it at are Antonio Esfandiari, Hoyt Corkins, Bertrand Grospellier, Erica Schoenberg and Teddy "Iceman" Monroe. Esfandiari is the table chip leader with 360,000, but Corkins has been flexing his muscle to move up to 225,000. He reraised a late position raise by Grospellier (150,000) from 5,600 to 15,000, then showed when everyone folded. Schoenberg is hanging tough with 140,000; Monroe is the short stack with about 30,000.
On the other side of the room, Greg Mueller and Phil Ivey are grinding fruitlessly. Mueller is on 75,000; Ivey is at 108,000 after taking a 10,000-chip stab at a flop of . One opponent called his bet; the other check-raised him to 35,000. Ivey quietly surrendered his cards to the dealer.
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Liz Lieu on Day 1
The tournament field just got significantly less attractive. Liz Lieu was quietly all in preflop with for about 80,000 chips against an opponent's suited Big Slick, . It was the ace on the turn of a board that ended the Poker Diva's L.A. Poker Classic Main Event. After taking a few minutes to send a few texts and collect her belongings, Lieu left the tournament room.
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While the honor of Al Barbieri and Liz Lieu was being impugned, actual poker was being played at the other tables. Teddy "Iceman" Monroe managed a double-up with pocket sixes against ace-king on a board of . The Iceman is still short but at least he's kicking.
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Ryan Young and Al Barbieri spent the last five minutes jawing at each other from opposite ends of Table 26. Apparently, Young was involved in the previous hand and may have talked someone out of a call by stating, "You don't want to send me home packing, do you?"
Barbieri thought that Young was disclosing the strength of his hand to his opponent and was sharp for possible collusion. He asked that a floor supervisor come to the table to make a ruling. Young, attempting to defend himself, explained, "I didn't disclose my hand. I just said, 'You don't want to send me home packing, do you?' and then this asshole..."
Barbieri exploded out of his seat. "Excuse me?" he shouted. "Can you back them words up? Can you back them words up? Am I an asshole?"
Greg Mueller immediately came over to the table and whispered something in Barbieri's ear, imploring him to calm down. Barbieri stated that he wanted an apology from a very visibly flushed Young. Antonio Esfandiari and Nenad Medic also came to see what the fuss was about.
Barbieri eventually calmed down and sat back down. "Are we good now?" Cody Slaughbaugh asked. The dealer had already dealt the next hand, and action was on Slaughbaugh in the big blind. "I can't play if there's gonna be all this shouting."
Barbieri was much calmer, even taking down the next pot with a pocket pair of tens. Young was bright red but otherwise remained silent.
Across the room, Liz Lieu seemed indignant that the player on her left berated her for being "inconsiderate". We're not sure what exactly the source of THAT controversy was, but Lieu was able to let the matter drop much more easily than Barbieri.
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, then tanked for two minutes after his lone opponent check-raised to 80,000. Chiu ultimately decided to look for a better spot, folding and preserving his stack at 90,000.
, and led out for 11,500. Voulgaris nonchalantly pushed three stacks of three orange chips across the betting line, a raise to 45,000. That was enough to take down the pot. 
. One opponent called his bet; the other check-raised him to 35,000. Ivey quietly surrendered his cards to the dealer.
for about 80,000 chips against an opponent's suited Big Slick, 
. It was the ace on the turn of a 
board that ended the Poker Diva's L.A. Poker Classic Main Event. After taking a few minutes to send a few texts and collect her belongings, Lieu left the tournament room.
