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Scotty Nguyen
After finding himself all in not too long ago, David Oppenheim has rebuilt nicely to now sit with around 40,000 in chips. Scotty Nguyen looked over at the Oppenheim's stack and was impressed with what he saw.
"God damn baby!" chirped Nguyen, drawing a sly grin from Oppenheim.
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Daniel Negreanu just eliminated Cyndy Violette. On sixth street Violette put the rest of her chips in and Negreanu made the call. After the river was dealt, Violette looked at Negreanu and asked, "Two pair?" Negreanu replied, "Yep. Two baby ones," as he shrugged and showed threes-up. Violette showed a pair of kings and said, "Nice hand."
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Rolf Slotboom was just eliminated when he went all in with a pair of tens and a flush draw. He needed to pair any of his board cards or catch a diamond to take the hand. He missed all the way around and is now headed home for the day.
Slotboom has had a good run thus far in the World Series of Poker. He already has two cashes and at least two other Day Two finishes. It will be interesting to see how the rest of the series progresses for him.
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Shannon Elizabeth Eliminated
Shannon Elizabeth has been eliminated from today's event at the hands of Phil Ivey.
Elizabeth was all in on third street as Phil Ivey casually tossed in his chips, seemingly more interested in eating his dinner than the hand in question.
Ivey's board ran out () for a pair of kings as Elizabeth could only manage a pair of nines as she heads to the rail after a solid showing in this event.
Ivey is now looking dangerous after quietly accumulating 75,000 in chips.
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David Benyamine made it two bets on fifth street showing a board
of . Archie "The Greek" Karas made the call showing a board of . Karas checked called both sixth and seventh streets to Benyamine. At showdown, Benyamine showed ( ) for a queen-high flush. Karras mucked his hand.
After the hand, Benyamine is up to 130,000 in chips while Karas is down to 40,000.
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Tony "G" Eliminated
Tony "G" Gouga was crippled in a four-way pot when Vassilios Lazarou showed sixes up on the river. After that hand, Tony G was down to 8,000 in chips. On the very next hand, Lazarou knocked Tony out when Tony's fives could not outdraw Lazarou's queens.
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Phil Ivey Splashes Around
Phil Ivey has requested that the tournament staff take down the tournament information from one of the big screens here in the Green quadrant of the Amazon Room, and put up the Lakers vs. Celtics NBA Championship game.
Technicians are frantically playing around with the screen trying to adhere to Ivey's request!
In the meantime Ivey has been splashing chips around and has slipped to 38,000.
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Zolotow Eliminated
Nick Schulman bets every street against Steve Zolotow and was called down all the way through the river. At showdown Schulman showed () for the queen-high flush and Zolotow showed ( ) for kings up.