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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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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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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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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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The ladies love Nenad.
Back-to-back hands didn't go so well for Nenad Medic. In position, he called a preflop raise to 5,700 by Daniel Negreanu. Both men cautiously checked a flop of . On the turn , Negreanu checked again, then quickly folded to a bet of 10,700.
That pot pushed Medic's count to 161,000, but he fell to 90,000 shortly thereafter. With 40,000 in the pot, Medic check-called a bet of 17,000 with the board showing . When the river fell , Medic led out for 31,700. His opponent raised to 80,000 after about 90 seconds. Medic visibly ran through all of the permutations in his head as to what he might be up against, glanced back at his hand one last time, and then mucked it.
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In 2008, Phil Ivey was the winner of the L.A. Poker Classic Main Event, pocketing almost $1.6 million in prize money. There won't be a repeat in 2009. Ivey was recently seen exiting the tournament floor after stopping for a quick word with Daniel Negreanu. There are no chips at his seat; he's out.
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Matt Brady's been playing aggressive poker today. That's often a recipe for success but it can also backfire once in a while. Brady was successful by moving all in for about 180,000 after a player who was new to the table had reraised Brady preflop from 6,900 to 20,000. He was less successful a few hands later when he tried to check-raise a different player from 14,000 to 42,000 on a flop of . That player responded by moving all in, drawing a snap-muck from Brady.
Brady now has about 170,000 chips. Incidentally, that's the same count as Shawn Glines, who seemed destined for the rail a few levels ago when he had just 17,000 chips.
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when everyone folded. Schoenberg is hanging tough with 140,000; Monroe is the short stack with about 30,000.
. One opponent called his bet; the other check-raised him to 35,000. Ivey quietly surrendered his cards to the dealer.
, 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. 
board.
, 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.
. On the turn 
, Negreanu checked again, then quickly folded to a bet of 10,700.
. When the river fell 
, Medic led out for 31,700. His opponent raised to 80,000 after about 90 seconds. Medic visibly ran through all of the permutations in his head as to what he might be up against, glanced back at his hand one last time, and then mucked it.
. That player responded by moving all in, drawing a snap-muck from Brady.
