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"Boosted J"
Justin "Boosted J" Smith raised under the gun, and Barry Greenstein gave him action from the big blind. Smith drew two and bet, while Greenstein pulled three cards and made the call.
On the second round, Smith stood pat, and Greenstein still needed to draw two and call another bet. On the final draw, Greenstein picked one more card before the betting went check-check.
Greenstein showed 9-7-5-3-2, but Smith had made the winning eighty-seven on his first draw.
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Nam Le raised from the cutoff, and both blinds called including Mimi Tran in the small. She took two, the big blind three, and Le took just one. Mimi bet out after the draw, the big blind folded out, and Le came along with the call.
He drew one, as did Mimi, and they both checked. On the last draw, Mimi gave the dealer pretty clear instructions: "Okay, no more pairs. I've gotten a pair on the last two draws." The dealer took heed, but he could only give her a J-6-5 low. It was good though; Le flashed a queen and flung his cards into the muck.
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Nam Le raised from the cutoff all in for his final 500. Both blinds called, but the small blind would fold after his first draw. Le took two cards on the first draw, then two more on the second. His opponent in the big blind drew one time before standing pat with 8-7-5-4-2. On the last draw, Le had 7-5-4-2 and needed to hit an eight, a six, or a three to stay afloat. Sure enough, he flipped over a three to improve to the winning number one. He's tripled up to 1,500, still in the danger zone.
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Justin Smith is now the proud owner of Barry Greenstein's hit book Ace on the River. Oh, you have one too, you say? Well I'd be willing to bet yours isn't signed by the author.
Smith has just KO'd Greenstein, and Barry scratched a little note inside the front cover before handing it over to "Boosted J" and heading out the door.
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Robert Mizrachi - Out
Robert Mizrachi was all in before the draw for his last 600 little chips. He needed to top two opponents, and he drew two-two-one. Both of his opponents were also drawing all the way, though they each took only one card on the final two draws.
In the end, one opponent showed an eighty-seven, and Mizrachi couldn't beat it. He's done.
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Unfortunately for those departed, the "busto" list is growing pretty fast.
Busto
Kelly Kim
Mike Sexton
Todd Brunson
Daniel Alaei
Erick Lindgren
Chino Rheem
Tracey Nguyen
Andre Akkari
Marcel Luske
David Singer
Bryan Devonshire
Bill Chen
Robusto
Victor Ramdin - 27,000
John Monnette - 19,500
Jimmy Fricke - 24,000
David Sklansky - 20,500
Steve Sung - 26,000
Daniel Negreanu - 27,000
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Steve Zolotow
We walked up on the hand as two players were all in, one of them being Greg Raymer. Steve Zolotow doesn't have many chips, but he was the covering stack, and he showed up his 8-6-5-4-2 while the other two acted.
The first opponent needed to draw two on the last round, and he ended up with a good low spoiled by a bad ace. Raymer tabled his four good cards: 6-5-3-2, drawing one to stay alive. He squeezed it out, then shrugged and flung a king into the center of the table for an airball.
"Z-o-l-o-t-o-w, right?" Raymer spelled it out to make sure he got it. He signed his fossil with a black marker, handed it to Zolotow with a shake of the hand, and set off into the room to check on the rest of the field.
More than five minutes later, Raymer is still meandering around the room chatting it up.
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A little more than a half hour ago, Nam Le was all in for just 500 chips and behind. He pulled a magical three out of the deck to make number one and triple up to 1,500, and it's been uphill from there. He's now clawed his way back up over 8,000, and as we speak he is raking in another small pot.
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