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Alex Triner
After just a few post-break hands, we encounter a dramatic all in. In one of few battle of the blinds contests, the action folds around to Jason Young who raises it up to 90,000.
Seated next door in the big blind, Alex Triner opts to make it 225,000 which, after a momentary pause, triggers a deep reach from Young and a subsequent all in move.
Sitting back in his chair with his hands on his head, Triner huffs at the mere thought of being involved in such a big pot, but seems already resigned to making the call and holding his breath.
When he does eventually call, he is overjoyed to find that he has his man dominated, Young's in need of divine intervention to keep him in the tournament in the face of Triner's ahead-for-the-time-being .
However, poker is a cruel, cruel game, and although the flop suggests an easy route to victory, it wasn't to be, the on the turn sending a jubilant Young into a wild frenzy.
Whoops and high fives ensue as an elated Young leaps around the table to celebrate with his friends on the rail. The river does nothing but pour salt in already open wounds and leave Triner with a diminished stack of 600,000.
Young, meanwhile, laps up a monster pot and now looks to be in the most confident of moods.
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Alex Triner
After the misfortune of the last hand, Alexander Triner was probably quite relieved to stumble upon a hand as strong as pocket jacks, perhaps hoping he could move over the top of another player and feign tilt of some kind.
Well, that initial raiser came in the form of John Strzemp, but unfortunately for Triner, he had the goods in pocket queens and duly called in a flash.
The board was unhelpful, the resigned cry of "where's the jack this time" before the dealer dealt out the river speaking volumes.
Sadly for Triner, it just wasn't his day, and he goes home in ninth.
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Whilst the exit of Alexander Triner ran a typhoon through today's final table, the winds have dispersed and calm serenity has returned.
Although I witnessed Matt Giannetti push all in over the top of Sergey Rybachenko's preflop button raise and Rory Monahan bet Jason Young out of a pot from the big blind after the latter had limped, it's been mainly a case of raise, fold, fold, fold with players taking it in turns to snap up those meaty blinds.
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With the absolute minimum of fuss, West gets it in preflop with against the of now-monster-stack Jason Young.
Board: an uneventful
Handshakes and sighs, and West takes his leave, probably gone to have a nap if he's sensible.
Once West has departed and the cards are being shuffled again, a delighted Young looks down at his 3 million or so stack, and laughs, "Well screw you guys now! I tried to be nice before!"
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Mike Schwartz wins two pots in a row through the possible deceptiveness of the preflop call.
Firstly, he limp-called a preflop raise of 40,000 from Sergey Rybachenko before pushing all in on the flop to take the pot.
Then a couple of hands later, he limped under the gun, called a raise from small blinder Kyle Bowker before reraising his continuation bet all in on a . A frustrated Bowker folded to give Schwartz his second uncontested pot in quick succession.
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Sergey Rybachenko
Disconnectivity has caused a delay in this report, but I can tell you that within the last couple of rounds, Sergey Rybachenko has gone from chip leader to short stack with just 380,000 lying on the felt before him.
The biggest hit came courtesy of neighbour Jason Young. With the board reading , Rybachenko check-raised Young's 55,000 bet to a total of 125,000. Young smooth called.
On the turn, Rybachenko bet out 250,000 and Young insta-called.
Then, on the river, Rybachenko blasted out a 600-700,000 bet which, again, Young insta-called.
Rybachenko mucked before even looking at Young's .
Several hands later and it got even worse for the Russian, Mike Schwartz raising it up to 126,000 preflop, Rybachenko calling and Rory Monahan bumping it up to 326,000.
Although tempted, Schwartz eventually folded, only for Rybachenko to make a surprise call.
On the , the chips couldn't hit the middle fast enough, Rybachenko's top pair with in deep trouble against the dominant pocket rockets of Monahan. An ace on the flop, followed by a non-Broadway blank on the river meant that Monahan had received a much-need double through, whilst Rybachenko had seen his stack slip even further.
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in need of divine intervention to keep him in the tournament in the face of Triner's ahead-for-the-time-being 
.
flop suggests an easy route to victory, it wasn't to be, the 
on the turn sending a jubilant Young into a wild frenzy.
river does nothing but pour salt in already open wounds and leave Triner with a diminished stack of 600,000.
river speaking volumes.
against the 
-- and he doubles up to stay in the game.
, Rybachenko check-raised Young's 55,000 bet to a total of 125,000. Young smooth called.
turn, Rybachenko bet out 250,000 and Young insta-called.
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, the chips couldn't hit the middle fast enough, Rybachenko's top pair with