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Day 5 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em
Day: 5
Players Left 9 / 6,494
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Among those who couldn't stand the pace were David Levi, Sorel Mizzi, Thor Hansen, Kara Scott, Dan Harrington and Bobby Baldwin. Among those who remain in the running, though, are such luminaries as Phil Ivey, Ludovic Lacay, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Tom Schneider, James Akenhead and Joe Hachem.
Our overnight chip leader is one Mr. Warren Zackey -- his stack has swelled to 5 million in the three levels we managed to get through today. Plenty of folks are on his tail, though, so this is still very definitely anyone's game. Bring on the pain...
The board couldn't bring any help for Phillips, eliminating him from the tournament and the two players holding aces split the pot.
. Craig Boyd was in the small blind, and he looked down at 
and made the call.The board ran out
, a clean sheet for Boyd. His kings hold to knock off Paul Lieu as the day nears its conclusion.
.The board ran out
and Ivey won the hand, eliminating Verdonschot in the process. Ivey will now bag up about 1.4 million chips for tomorrow.
staying well ahead of Corey Hochman's 
once they flipped their cards following a preflop raising war.Board:
Hochman is no more, while Boeken moves on up to 2.4 million.
, and [Removed:197] was first to act from the blinds. He checked, and J.C. Tran made a bet of 30,000. Alper Sar called, and [Removed:198] moved all in with a big covering stack. With 331,000 chips left, Tran made the call for his tournament life, and Sar quickly mucked out of the way.Tran tabled
for top-top. He had the best hand, but [Removed:198]'s gave him a monster draw. The 
on the turn was an airball, and a blank hit the river as well with the 
. Tran somehow fades the myriad of outs, doubling his way up to 820,000.
Hein:
Katchalov:
Board:
Esfandiari showed
and Sanders was a fair bit behind tabling 
. The board ran out 
. The Magician is now up to approximately 1,200,000 in chips.
Greco:
Luu:
The board kept Greco's kings safe and he doubles up to 560,000.
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Shortly after Luu is involved with another all in preflop hand while holding
against the of Mike Linn. However, this time the result would turn out better for Luu as the board came 
giving him a set of eights. Hieu Luu - 2,000,000
