Championship Day 4 | 2007 L.A Poker Classic / WPT Event Season 5

02-28-2007 02:04 UTC-7

Day 4 Completed

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Day 4 at the LA Poker Classic is over. There are 18 players remaining. JC Tran is the chipleader with over $3 million. Stay tuned for official chipcounts.

Action will resume at 3:30pm local time for Day 5.

02-28-2007 02:02 UTC-7

CK Hua Eliminated in 19th Place

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CK Hua was shortstacked and had to make a move. Holding {K-Hearts}

on a board of {J-Clubs}

, Hua moved all in and David Bach called with {A-Spades}

. Hua's hand could not improve as he headed to the rail in 19th place.

CK Hua 19th place $45,560

Tags: CK Hua David Bach

02-28-2007 01:58 UTC-7

Ben Johnson Doubles through Juan Alvarado

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Juan Alvarado just dropped 500K to Ben Johnson on a sick hand. Both players held K-Q, however on the {10-Clubs}

board, Johnson made a higher flush, holding the {K-Diamonds}

to Alvarado's {Q-Diamonds}

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Johnson is up to just over a million in chips while Alvarado is down to 300K.

Tags: Ben Johnson Juan Alvarado

02-28-2007 01:33 UTC-7

Kristy Gazes Short Stacked

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The two short stacks at Table 1 (Joe Crodi & Vincent Procopio) managed to pick up some chips and surpass Kristy Gazes. She's sitting on 370K while they have a little more.

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02-28-2007 01:31 UTC-7

Famous Faces in the Room

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WPT champions Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and Nam Le (our 22nd place finisher) are both intensely sweating our chipleader, J.C. Tran. Erick Lindgren is wandering around and Mike Gracz is cheering on his fellow North Carolina native, Chris Bell.

Tags: Erick Lindgren JC Tran Michael Mizrachi Mike Gracz Nam Le

02-28-2007 01:22 UTC-7

Clock Called on Kristy

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On a board of {3-Hearts}

, Kristy Gazes faced a 100K bet from Ben Johnson and went into the tank. After only two minutes, Johnson called the clock on Gazes. Gazes folded, but was visibly unhappy about having the clock called on her when so many players have been stalling in late-stage play.

"I'm a professional. Have you EVER seen me stall in this tournament? We're playing for $2 million here, how about you let me make a decision?" she spat.

Tags: Ben Johnson Kristy Gazes

02-28-2007 01:16 UTC-7

More Chip Counts?

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JC Tran $3M
Jacobo Fernandez $1.3M
Bill Edler $1.16M
Tad Jurgens $1.045M
Paul Wasicka $890K
Jason Strasser $840K
Chau Giang $775K
David Bach $730K
Juan Alvarado $660K
Average Stack $659,166
Richard Munro $640K
Benjamin Johnson $635K
Eric Hershler $590K
Kristy Gazes $540K
Chris Bell $475K
Shan Jing $460K
Jay Chang $370K
CK Hua $300K
Vincent Procopio $228K
Joseph Cordi $198K

02-28-2007 01:12 UTC-7

Poker News Videos

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Check out our extensive video gallery by clicking on the link to the right. Today's videos include interviews with Bill Edler, Nick Schulman, Tad Jurgens, JC Tran, Jason Strasser, Jeff Cabanillis, and Hans "Tuna" Lund. Mike Gracz also does some hand anaysis with John "Schecky" Caldwell.

Tags: Video Gallery

02-28-2007 01:01 UTC-7

Hand-for-Hand

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With 19 players remaining on three tables, action is hand-for-hand until one more player busts out. When that happens, play will end for Day 4.

02-28-2007 01:01 UTC-7

Hans "Tuna" Lund Eliminated in 20th Place

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JC Tran is on a roll and sent Hand "Tuna" Lund to the rail in 20th Place. Lund had Tran dominated when he flopped a King with Big Slick. JC Tran held {J-Spades}

and flopped an 8. Tran turned trip 8s and quickly called when Lund moved all in. The river could not help Lund and he busted out. That hand nearly pushed Tran over $3 million in chips.

Hans "Tuna" Lund 20th place $45,560

Tags: Hans "Tuna" Lund JC Tran