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On the very next hand after snowing Chad Brown, Tony G open-shoved from the button. This time Chad Brown made the call. Both men drew one card. Their hands prior to squeezing out the draw:
Tony G: 8-5-4-3
Brown: 8-7-4-2
Both men picked up a jack as their draw card. Tony G's J-8-5 was just slightly better than Brown J-8-7 to scoop the pot and double up.
"No luck involved," said Tony G after the hand.
Erick Lindgren glanced over at him. "You want to move in with that?" he said, pointing at Tony G's hand.
"I was loose," Tony G replied. "I was giving action."
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Nikolay Evdakov, the current short stack, made his stand and moved all in from the cutoff seat. Much to Evdakov's liking, Dario Alioto and David Benyamine conceded their blinds. Evdakov is still in the mix, now up to 71,000.
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Action folded around to David Grey in the small blind. He raised to 25,000 and Tom Dwan made the call from the big blind. Grey drew one card and Dwan took two. After the draw, Grey bet 50,000. Dwan came over the top to the tune of 320,000 total.
Grey thought for several minutes before finally folding. Dwan climbs to about 510,000 while Grey slides down to about 204,000.
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Before the draw, Barry Greenstein opened the pot to 24,000. He was called by Tom Schneider in the small blind. Greenstein drew one card; Schneider stood pat.
After the draw, Schneider checked the action over to Greenstein, who bet 37,000. Schneider made the call and Greenstein tabled 9-8. Schneider mucked without showing.
That pot moved Greenstein from being dangerously short to about 125,000.
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After watching Phil Ivey rebuy repeatedly yesterday, we realized that certain of the pros were going to have to cash high just to get their money back. Erick Lindgren just confirmed that.
"I have to finish above ninth to make any money on this tournament," Lindgren said. Ninth place pays $34,700, meaning that Lindgren is in for at least seven buy-ins.
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Nikolay Evdakov Eliminated
A short-stacked Nikolay Evdakov moved all in from under the gun for his last 68,000. Action folded around to Erick Lindgren in the big blind and he made the call. Evdakov stood pat and Lindgren tossed a . Evdakov tabled but Lindgren flipped over for the win.
Evdakov was eliminated in 13th place and adds this cash to his four others from this year's WSOP. He'll take home bragging rights and a cool $26,025.
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Nick Schulman Eliminated
A very short-stacked Nick Schulman was all in in his big blind. Dario Alioto raised from under the gun and Chad Brown called from the button. Schulman drew two cards, Brown took one, and Alioto kept his hand as dealt.
Brown and Alioto checked on the side and Alioto showed a prompting Brown to muck. Schulman did the classic painfully slow squeeze of the cards and with two left to peek at was working on a low. His fourth card, however, was an and he tossed his hand in and headed for the payout table to collect his $26,025 for 12th place.
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Current Chip Leader - Jeffrey Lisandro
Action folded around to Jeffrey Lisandro on the button and he raised to 25,000. Mike Matusow reraised to 75,000 from the big blind and Lisandro called. Matusow stood pat while Lisandro took one card. Both players checked and then showed:
Lisandro:
Matusow:
Lisandro barely edges Matusow for the pot and he climbs to 620,000 and becomes our new chip leader.
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Action folded to Tony G in the cutoff and he raised to 20,000. Chad Brown moved all in from the button for 103,000 total. The blinds passed and Tony G made the call. Brown stays pat and Tony tosses one card while tabling . Brown flipped up meaning Tony would have to improve. He flipped up his last card and revealed a for the win. With this pot, Tony G climbs to just over 350,000 chips.
Chad Brown is eliminated in 11th place and walks with $34,700 to add to his poker resume.
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Mike Matusow
A very interesting hand just occurred on Green #10 between Mike Matusow and Jeff Lisandro. Jeff raised on the button to 25,000. Matusow reraised from the big blind to 75,000. Lisandro paused for a few moments, then called. Matusow stood pat; Lisandro drew one card.
Both players checked the action after the draw. "Jack-nine," announced Matusow. Lisandro opened a jack-nine of his own: J-9-6. Matusow turned up his jack-nine to check his kicker and realized that every single card in his hand was a club, giving him a flush. He slammed his cards into the felt in frustration, sending one of them off the table.
The pot was pushed to Lisandro. Incidentally, Matusow's "jack-nine" was a J-9-7 and would not have won, even if he hadn't held all clubs. Nevertheless, Lisandro and Greenstein called a floor over to ask for a hypothetical ruling about what would have happened if Lisandro couldn't beat a "jack-nine" and had mucked his hand.
"We wouldn't be able to pull his hand out of the muck," the floor stated. "The pot would have gone to the player who mis-called and that player would have incurred a penalty." All players were subsequently warned that if anyone else mis-calls a hand, that person will incur an automatic one-orbit penalty.
Meanwhile, Matusow was beside himself. "I make my first move all night and I take it up the ass," moaned Matusow.
The very next hand, Tom Schneider opened for 25,000 and Barry Greenstein reraised on the button all in for 155,000. Matusow peeked at his cards and stewed.
"When I do sh*t like this, it snowballs," he muttered. "It always snowballs." Finally, he mucked. Everyone else mucked and Greenstein dragged the pot.
"If that whole thing hadn't happened," Matusow said to Greenstein, "I might have called there. But sh*t like this always snowballs. First, I misread my hand. Second, I wanted to find out what would happen if I came over the top after folding 36 hands in a row. I guess I got my answer.
"I know how poker works. It snowballs. I need to keep a positive attitude and mental energy. That's the new Mike Matusow."
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. Evdakov tabled 
but Lindgren flipped over 
for the win.
and he tossed his hand in and headed for the payout table to collect his $26,025 for 12th place.
