When asked if he'd found the right combination yet he said no, but he'll have more design options, "When I get more chips."
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When asked if he'd found the right combination yet he said no, but he'll have more design options, "When I get more chips."
Agarwal:
Dragomir:
The board ran out
and Agarwal spiked a jack on the flop to double up to about 480,000 in chips.
against the 
of Paul Snead but came up short when the board ran out 
.
The flop came
. Byard checked, Crilly bet 300,000, Byard reraised to 600,000, and Crilly pushed all in for about 1.9 million total. Byard, who had about one million going into the hand, made the call.Byard:
Crilly:
The turn was the
and river the 
, and the two chopped the enormous pot."This is a tough way to split the blinds," cracked Byard afterwards.
The next hand Matusow was the preflop raiser making it 60,000 to go. Phi Nguyen made the call. They saw a flop of
and Matusow takes down the pot with a continuation bet of 70,000."Wow I won two pots in a row! That's scary!" said Matusow as he now sits behind about 650,000 in chips.
on the turn, Petteri Pirinen led out for 200,000, Alfredo Fernandez moved all in and Pirinen snap-called. Fernandez turned up
and was relieved to see Pirinen's 
after he had called so quickly. "Dude, I swear to God I thought he had a nine. I was going to start crying," said Fernandez.
The river was the
. Fernandez's aces and nines were the better two pair and Pirinen was eliminated in 102nd place. After the hand, Fernandez was up to 2,100,000.
On the first hand, Branciforte had
vs. Valikoski's 
. The board came A-6-J-J-9, and they chopped.On the next one, Branciforte was again dominated preflop with
against Valikoski's . This time the flop was 
, giving Valikoski trips. But the and river gave both players Broadway and yet another chop.Branciforte hangs on with 197,000.
was dominated by Beckman's and the 
flop put Beckman way in the lead and the on the turn sealed the deal. He doubled to close to one million.
Nguyen stopped at Phil Hellmuth's table, and Hellmuth tipped his cap to him, saying "The H.O.R.S.E. champion, everyone." Nguyen responded by wishing good luck to Hellmuth, the lone WSOP Main Event winner left in the field.
