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07-11-2008 18:11 UTC-8

Still More Eliminations

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Brad Hood, David Baker, Tyron Krost and Olivier Busquet, short stacks all around, have all left the tournament area here in the Amazon Room. Hood was short, and pushed {Q-Hearts}

{Q-Hearts}

{9-Spades}

into Tom Cope's Big Slick. Cope wound up making trip aces to take Hood out.

Baker was also short, down to just 65,000, and pushed {Q-Clubs}

{Q-Clubs}

{J-Clubs}

into Alfredo Fernandez's {A-Hearts}

{A-Hearts}

{J-Diamonds}

. Neither player improved on a board that came out {10-Spades}

{10-Spades}

{9-Hearts}

{9-Diamonds}

{9-Clubs}

{2-Hearts}

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Krost can say he was taken out by Gus Hansen. Again the money was in the middle preflop. This time it was a race, Krost's {A-Spades}

{A-Spades}

{J-Spades}

against Hansen's {6-Diamonds}

{6-Diamonds}

{6-Spades}

. Hansen hit the {8-Clubs}

{8-Clubs}

{6-Clubs}

{3-Clubs}

flop with a set; the turn {7-Clubs}

{7-Clubs}

gave Krost outs to a chop, but he missed on the {4-Hearts}

{4-Hearts}

river.

Busquet engaged in a series of preflop raises with Mark Vos before the money went in. He had {8-Diamonds}

{8-Diamonds}

{8-Hearts}

against Vos' {A-Diamonds}

{A-Diamonds}

{k-Spades}

, another race situation. This time the overcards won it when the board ran out {A-Spades}

{A-Spades}

{7-Diamonds}

{9-Hearts}

{5-Hearts}

{3-Hearts}

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