We recently reported that Jacob Bazeley was crippled when he ran his pocket jacks into pocket queens. Moments later, he was eliminated from the tournament.
Elsewhere in the room, Craig "Smitty" Smith has built his stack up to about 100,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
100,000 | |
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Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Level: 11
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
We caught up to see a player move all in against Chris Moneymaker before the flop. While Moneymaker came to a decision, he lamented about previously folding kings. Eventually he decided to call only to find that kings was the exact hand he was up against.
Moneymaker: 
Opponent: 
The board fell down 
and Moneymaker was unable to improve his hand. He was forced to ship a solid chunk of his stack over to his opponent and is now hovering right around the starting stack of 20,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
20,000
-15,000
|
-15,000 |
|
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| Buy-in | Entrants | Prize Pool |
|---|---|---|
| $300+$65 | 306 | $91,800 |
| Place | Player | Hometown | Prize |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aaron Kerns | Sullivan, IN | $21,571 |
| 2 | David Reed | Ontario, CA | $13,339 |
| 3 | Jeffrey Hoffman | Wichita Falls, TX | $9,688 |
| 4 | Ronald Brassard | Nashua, NH | $7,156 |
| 5 | Steven Williams | Little Rock, AR | $5,372 |
| 6 | Sean McDonald | St. Louis, MO | $4,097 |
| 7 | Peter Sullivan | Roscoe, IL | $3,174 |
| 8 | Stuart Breakstone | Memphis, TN | $2,495 |
| 9 | Bobby Byram | Osceola, AR | $1,991 |
Matt Chang, who was sitting on buckets of chips early on in the day, has been eliminated from play. Gathering information from his Twitter, he was eliminated when he moved all in with 
and was defeated by an opponent's 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
125,000
19,000
|
19,000 |
|
115,000
115,000
|
115,000 |
|
86,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
|
70,000
70,000
|
70,000 |
|
65,000
65,000
|
65,000 |
|
62,000
23,500
|
23,500 |
|
60,000
27,000
|
27,000 |
|
40,000
-1,000
|
-1,000 |
|
|
||
|
|
36,000
-64,000
|
-64,000 |
|
19,000 | |
|
||
|
Busted | |
We got to the table just in time to catch the aftermath of Chris Conrad's final hand in the tournament. He was all in before the flop with 
. Another short-stacked player was also all in with 
. Both of those players were crushed by a third players 
.
Conrad failed to improve and he was eliminated from play. Fortunately for Conrad, he can still revel in the fact that he won his first WSOP Circuit ring last night as well as over $23,000 in prize money.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
We got to the table to find 2003 WSOP Main Event champion Chris Moneymaker all in and at risk for his last 20,200 before the flop against Sean Small. Moneymaker was holding 
and was looking for help against Small's 
.
Moneymaker found exactly the help that he needed when he paired his seven on the 
flop. He now just needed to dodge a ten on the coming streets in order to secure his double up. The turn was the and the river the , allowing him to bring back his chips and then some. He's currently sitting on about 42,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
42,000
22,000
|
22,000 |
|
|
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Level: 12
Blinds: 600/1,200
Ante: 200
