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Flaminio Malaguti
Shawn Buchanan raised from the button, Jean-Robert Bellande three-bet from the small blind, Flaminio Malaguti made it four bets from the big blind, Buchanan dropped out, and Bellande called.
The flop came . Malaguti bet, Bellande raised, and Malaguti called with his last chips, showing versus Bellande's . The turn was the and the river the , and Malaguti survives.
Bellande, meanwhile, was crippled on that one, and soon after was all in with versus Andreas Hoivold's . Bellande couldn't catch up, and he's out.
Shamus
Just before the end of the previous level, four more players accompanied Jean-Robert Bellande to the rail: James Gallman, Ronald Witteles, Robert Campbell, Andreas Hagen, and Nick Binger.
Table #243: Qinghai Pan leads Dan Heimiller, Joep Van Den Bijgaart, and Michael Leah.
Table #244: Andreas Hoivold leads Peter Panos, Roman Ginzburg, Shawn Buchanan, and Flaminio Malaguti.
Table #245: Jose Barbero leads Keith Ray and Johnny Neckar
Table #246: David Williams leads Michel Halioua and Jeffrey Boudreau.
Table #247: Greg Mueller and Tom Schneider are close in chips, followed by Daniel Kraus and Michael Byrne.
Table #248: Humberto Brenes leads Matthew Sterling and Robert Tanniru.
Table #249: Jacob Petersen leads Jonathan Dwek, Marc Naalden, Trai Dang, and Norman Michaud.
Table #250: Ben Ponzio leads Kyle Ray and Millie Shiu.
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Jonathan Dwek
Jonathan Dwek was just all in preflop with A-9 and was up against two players -- Marc Naalden, who had A-10, and Norman Michaud, who had K-10. Naalden and Michaud checked down the board, and Dwek was eliminated, leaving four players over on Table #249.
Shamus
Two of our tables have now made it to heads up.
On Table #246, David Williams just knocked out Jeffrey Boudreau, so now he and Michel Halioua are the only two left. Williams has about 210,000 right now, and Halioua 150,000.
And on Table #247, Greg "FBT" Mueller just used pocket kings to eliminate Daniel Kraus who was all in before the flop with . The board came . Schneider has a slight advantage as they begin heads up play with 190,000 to Mueller's 170,000.