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Thomas Bentham
Thomas Bentham, who is sharing a table with Team PokerStars pro and double bracelet winner Bill Chen, is keeping relatively quiet so far today amid the bedlam of other tables, his stack currently hovering around the 60,000 mark.
Meanwhile, across the table is the daunting figure of Alon Shahar and his 265,000 chip-leading stack. Although seemingly invincible throughout the entirety of yesterday's play, I did witness Shahar lose a pot, heavy preflop action being followed by a checked-down board, Shahar mucking as his opponent showed a triumphant
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Even taking into account that this is a six-handed event, the pace of exits has been impressive. However, the average stack with 66 left and the blinds at 800/1600 is currently around 77,000 -- that's 50 big blinds -- so we may well see some tightening up as the prospect of the big money approaches.
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Russ Floyd is out. He got his chips in preflop with a classic under the gun against the equally classic of Scott Zakheim immediately to his left -- Floyd raised, Zakheim reraised all in, and Floyd called all in so they were on their backs.
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Robert Lipkin
Robert Lipkin pushes all in with 3-3 and is called by John O'Shea's A-J. Ace on the flop sent Lipkin home. O'Shea up to 85,000.
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Gabe Costner is no more. Holding , he thought it was his lucky day when he hit his jack on the board. Leo Fernandez checked to him and he bet 12,000 from the cutoff -- but Fernandez raised him all in, and Costner called.
The jack wasn't as good for Costner as he thought it was -- Fernandez turned over for the flush, and Costner was drawing dead before the river.
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With Todd Terry raising it up to 4,000 from late position, Bill Chen made the call from the big blind leading to both players seeing a flop.
After Chen check-called 4,500 on the flop and 10,000 on the turn, both players checked down the river only for Terry to take it down with .
Chen mucked and drops to 60,000. Terry jumps to 77,000.
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board, Shahar mucking as his opponent showed a triumphant 
under the gun against the equally classic 
of Scott Zakheim immediately to his left -- Floyd raised, Zakheim reraised all in, and Floyd called all in so they were on their backs.
, he thought it was his lucky day when he hit his jack on the 
board. Leo Fernandez checked to him and he bet 12,000 from the cutoff -- but Fernandez raised him all in, and Costner called.
river.
flop.
turn, both players checked down the 
, and absolutely nothing changed on the 
board. Fischer now on 120,000.
