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Day 4 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em
Day: 4
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The story of the day was the dramatic bubble burst of Kia Hamadani who was blinded down to his last 500-chip ante before eventually succumbing to the roars of the players in the Amazon Room as they made the money.
Only three levels of play today, but that was enough for Ludovic Lacay to emerge from the pack as our likely overnight chip leader. The likes of Blair Hinkle, Bertrand 'ElkY' Grospellier, Theo Tran, Mickey Mills, Dan Harrington, Kenny Tran, Tom Schneider, Nick Schulman and Lou Diamond Phillips all find themselves well placed entering Day 5 of the Main Event tomorrow.
Those who weren't so fortunate today included duel-bracelet winner Greg Mueller, Hevad Khan, Isaac Baron, Kristy Gazes, Chris Ferguson, Paul Wasicka, Alexander Kostritsyn, Justin Bonomo and of course Phil Hellmuth who was the biggest casualty late in the day.
Play will resume once again tomorrow at 12 noon so stay locked into PokerNews.com for all of your live updates from the tournament floor. See you then!
against 
in a 500,000 pot after a 
board.
Mol showed
and Hsiung 
. The flop came 
, giving Mol a set and the big lead. The turn brought the 
, and perhaps a little woulda-shoulda-coulda for Phillips. The river was the 
, and Mol is up to 305,000. Hsiung drops to 292,000.
Labbe:
Eastgate:
Labbe had a sweat by the turn as the board came
, but the 
on the river was safe enough and Labbe will return for Day 5 with just over 100,000 chips.
, Jon Eaton was all in and called by Ludovic Lacay. Eaton had for top pair, but Lacay had 
for bottom two.However, the turn and river were both kings --
-- counterfeiting Lacay's hand and giving Eaton the better two pair and the pot. Eaton has 275,000, while Lacay is still up there with 1.7 million.
. The betting action was unclear, but it ended with Mark Ader moving all in for 380,000 total. Kenny Tran was his opponent, and Tran would pause to consider his position carefully before making the call for half of his stack.Ader tabled
, but Tran wasn't showing just yet. He took the extra time -- another three or four minutes -- to get Ader's count, cut out the call from his stack, and push his own chips in front of Ader before turning over his 
, drawing slim. The 
on the turn was a great sweat, but the door slammed when the 
hit the river.With that exchange, Ader is all the way up to 895,000, pushing Kenny Tran down to 366,000.
"What do you want me to do?" Tran asked.
"I want you to call," Schwartz replied. "I need to double up."
Call is exactly what Tran did as he tabled
against Schwartz's 
. Schwartz paired kings on the flop and never looked back en route to 155,000 in chips.
against the of John Monnette.Gettler held the lead but the flop was a disastrous one for him as it fell
. The turn was the 
and river the . Monnette takes it down to move up to 540,000 as Gettler is sent to the payout desk.
Goa:
Semisoshenko:
The hand was over by the turn as the board ran out
and Semisoshenko doubled to 280,000.
