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Mike Rocco was the 2008 WSOP champion in the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud event. He's still alive in tonight's field but he, too, has joined the short stacks. Rocco raised the after Jeff Lisandro completed the , then called all the way down to showdown. Lisandro wound up making a king-high straight by sixth street; Rocco's board of x-x / / x didn't produce anything better.
Rocco is down to 45,000. Lisandro is now on 320,000.
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Several of the short stacks are inching ever closer to elimination. Daniel Studer is down to 40,000 chips after calling all the way down to showdown against Gerard Rechnitzer. Rechnitzer produced / / as his final seven cards, for a pair of kings. Studer showing a board of x-x / / x that quickly went into the muck.
Rechnitzer, however, is not exactly flush with chips. He has 70,000.
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We thought there might be a slackening in the pace of eliminations, but that hasn't been the case. Simon Yee is next out, putting himself all in on third street with / and being called by Mitch Schock's split eights. Yee made a pair of queens on sixth street, but Schock rivered a second pair of sevens to take Yee out in 13th place. He will walk away with $5,939 in prize money.
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Max Troy's day is over. He was all in on fourth street against Jeff Lisandro, who showed a pair of queens. The cards came flying quickly at that point, so we're not sure what Troy finished with. Whatever it was, it couldn't beat queens.
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Oh dear. We're losing some of the star power that was left in this event. Dutch Boyd has recently hit the rail, courtesy of Thor Hansen. Boyd was all in on third street showing the ; Hansen and Daniel Studer got in there with the and respectively.
On sixth street, Hansen was showing x-x / against Studer's x-x / . Hansen made a gutsy bet there that Studer called; Hansen bet again on the river and got Studer to fold what was probably the best hand -- since Hansen had only a pair of threes! He said that he could tell that threes had Boyd beat and made the play to fold the better hand.
Boyd never showed his hand. His board develoepd x-x / / x and, true to Hansen's prediction, could not beat a pair of threes.
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It took two hands to send Jason Mercier to the exit. He was crippled at the hand of Ed Pardey, whose split nines turned into trip nines by the river; Mercier's board was showing an open pair of jacks before he mucked it.
A few hands later, Mercier was all in on third started with / . Steven Stencil got in there with / . Stencil made a pair of nines; Mercier made a pair of deuces, which was not enough. He's out in 16th place, earning $4,646.
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Jason Mercier
Jason Mercier has fallen to less than five big bets in his stack, officially putting him in "the Danger Zone". He tried one raise on "Miami" John Cernuto, raising fourth street, then called the rest of the way as Cernuto kept firing. Both players checked the river, with Cernuto showing down / / for two pair, aces and kings. Mercier's board showed x-x / / x, only long enough for him to muck.
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after Jeff Lisandro completed the 
, then called all the way down to showdown. Lisandro wound up making a king-high straight by sixth street; Rocco's board of x-x / 
/ x didn't produce anything better.
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as his final seven cards, for a pair of kings. Studer showing a board of x-x / 
/ x that quickly went into the muck.
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and being called by Mitch Schock's split eights. Yee made a pair of queens on sixth street, but Schock rivered a second pair of sevens to take Yee out in 13th place. He will walk away with $5,939 in prize money.
and 
respectively.
. Hansen made a gutsy bet there that Studer called; Hansen bet again on the river and got Studer to fold what was probably the best hand -- since Hansen had only a pair of threes! He said that he could tell that threes had Boyd beat and made the play to fold the better hand.
/ 
. Stencil made a pair of nines; Mercier made a pair of deuces, which was not enough. He's out in 16th place, earning $4,646.
