Championship Day 3 | 2007 L.A Poker Classic / WPT Event Season 5

02-27-2007 01:20 UTC-7

Players Are Currently on a 15 Minute Break

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Level: 16

Blinds: 3,000/6,000

Ante: 1,000

02-27-2007 01:33 UTC-7

Playing to the Money Tonight

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Though we were scheduled for a midnight exit, it was just announced that we will be playing down to the money tonight.

70 players remain. 54 will cash. 16 will leave empty-handed.

02-27-2007 01:37 UTC-7

Last Aussie Standing: Jim Sachindis

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Jimmy "Satch" Sachindis is the last Australian still remaining in the LA Poker Classic. He's among the chipleaders with 350K. Sachinidis made a final table at the 2007 Aussie Millions and took 3rd place in a $1K event. Since it started later in the day, he entered a tournament at noon. When the final table began, he was two-tabling!

He ended up getting into a dispute with the TDs and was told that he was not allowed to play multiple tournaments at the same time. Sachindis argued that if he was told earlier, then he would not have spent $1,6000 in tournament fees and re-buys. TD Danny McDonagh was called over and after a discussion, Sachindis was allowed to play a few hands in his second event due to the miscommunication between another tournament supervisor and Sachindis. The TD stood by the table to watch Jimmy play his hands in order to protect the integrity of the game and to insure that the tournament chips being used are the same.

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02-27-2007 01:49 UTC-7

Recent Eliminations

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The following players all busted out on Day 3: Rod Fani, Jake Minter, Edvin Davoudi, Matthew Gianetti, Tim Phan, Joseph Cordi, Robert Brown, Cal Dykes, Kevin O'Sullivan, Mark Wilds, Cuizeman Medina, Dean Pelaic, Paul P. Chauderson, Melik Bagdasaryan, Robert Roter, Brian Starr, Chris Karagulleyan, William Lin, Martin Virgen, William Pilossoph, Andreas Walnum, Arash Ghaneian, Noah Jefferson, Gary Kainer, Brett Richey, Alex Davis, David Slan, Matthew Szymaszek, Samuel Bekerian, Jimmy Tran, Ronald Jenkins, Eric Kesselman, and Wayne Lewis.

02-27-2007 01:51 UTC-7

Not So Happy

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Down to his last 30K, Jeff "Happy" Shulman pushes all-in on the button. Kristy Gazes pushes all-in right behind him from the sb. Shulman shows Q7o and faces Gazes' pocket kings. The board brings no help to Shulman who leaves in 68th place.

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