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With the board reading , it looked as though Mark Newhouse was about to send Shawn Keller out of today's event. Newhouse, holding , made trips on the turn to take the lead against Keller's . The short-stacked Keller was forced to commit the last of his chips and learned the bad news, but on the river the spiked and that re-suckout means Keller lives to fight another day. He currently sits with 53,000, while Newhouse still has a 298,000 stack.
donpeters
Al Adler
Al Adler raised from the hijack position to 10,500. The cutoff called and then James Gorham in the big blind reraised the pot. Adler called all in for his remaining 8,000 chips and the cutoff folded.
Adler: 8-8
Gorham: A-J
The flop was clean for Adler, 5-K-5. The turn helped Gorham out a little with a ten and then the river was an ace to eliminate Adler.
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Grant Lang raised from middle position and was reraised by John Kabbaj from the big blind. Lang committed the last of his chips and showed , while Kabbaj had . Lang spiked an ace on the flop...but the flop also held a king and Lang was drawing dead after the turn. Kabbaj now has 200,000 in chips.
[user25067]
Short-stacked Al Adler had been missing in action for the better part of the first level of play, but finally made his arrival a few minutes ago. Blinded down to less than half of the 19,000 he had going into the day, Adler faced an early-position raise of 7,000 from James Gorham and called all in from the big blind with pocket jacks. Gorham turned up K-Q and they were off to the races. The board ran out 8-7-6-A-7 and Adler doubled up to 16,000.
[user37786]
Proving that the "excessive celebration" rule seems to be working as expected, Humberto Brenes just doubled up when his Ace-King outflopped an opponent's Queens and there wasn't a single charrrk sighting. It would also seem that lowering the volume a tad hasn't affected Humberto's game at all.
[user25067]
Thou Shall Not Steal...
Michael Pesek made a button raise to 8,100 and Chris "Jesus" Ferguson reraised to 25,000 from the big blind. Pesek immediately three-bet to 70,000, prompting a fold from Ferguson, who was down to 105,000 after the hand.
donpeters
Jennifer Harman moved almost all her chips in after David Bach bet the pot preflop from under the gun. Harman had 2,000 behind because she could only raise the pot size. Bach made the call. Both players understood that Harman was essentially all in. The rest of Harman's chips went into the pot on the flop.
Harman showed and Bach showed a dominated . The flop came , the turn a blank seven, and the river an ace.
Harman successfully doubled to 45,000, while Bach was knocked down to 300,000.
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, it looked as though Mark Newhouse was about to send Shawn Keller out of today's event. Newhouse, holding 
, made trips on the turn to take the lead against Keller's 
. The short-stacked Keller was forced to commit the last of his chips and learned the bad news, but on the river the 
spiked and that re-suckout means Keller lives to fight another day. He currently sits with 53,000, while Newhouse still has a 298,000 stack.
, while Kabbaj had 
. Lang spiked an ace on the flop...but the flop also held a king and Lang was drawing dead after the turn. Kabbaj now has 200,000 in chips.
, but Stroj had outs with the 
.
and the river the 
to allow Vinsant to successfully double up through Stroj.
. The flop came 
, the turn a blank seven, and the river an ace.