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Day 6 Completed
2009 World Series of Poker
Event 57 - $10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em
Day: 6
Players Left 9 / 6,494
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Among those leaving us during the first levels of play were Cole South, Chris Bjorin, John Monnette, Joe Serock, Thierry van den Berg, Blair Hinkle, Theo Tran, and long-time chip leader in this tournament, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier.
Sarne Lightman, J.C. Tran, 2005 Main Event champ Joe Hachem, and David Benyamine soon joined the parade of players marching to the rail, and when dinner time arrived just 101 players remained.
As Noah Boeken, Kenny Tran, and last year's champion Peter Eastgate were eliminated, Darvin Moon, Ludovic Lacay, and Antoine Stout began moving toward the top of the leaderboard. Nichoel Peppe would go out in 75th place, leaving Leo Margets as our last woman left remaining in the field.
Just before night's end, Fernando Gordo was eliminated in 65th place. Darvin Moon will be our overnight leader with nearly 10 million, followed by Billy Kopp in second and the player most everyone will be watching in third -- none other than Phil Ivey.
Antonio Esfandiari is also in the top ten with 64 left, and Jeff Shulman, Tom Schneider, Dennis Phillips, Blair Rodman, Joe Sebok, and Prahlad Friedman have chips as well.
Thanks for following our coverage today, and rejoin us tomorrow at noon local time when play resumes and, in the words of Tournament Director Robbie Thompson tonight when announcing our main feature table, "the dream continues."
The flop came
, and both players checked. The turn brought the 
. Martin bet 100,000, Lacay raised to 250,000, and Martin called.The river brought the
. Martin checked, and Lacay fired out 525,000. Martin tanked for a good while, then finally called.Lacay turned over
for queens full, and Martin showed 
. "He finally had a hand," quipped Adam Bilzerian, referring to Lacay showing up with something there.Lacay is up to 5.8 million, and Martin has 3.2 million.
. Saca had 
for top two, while Ramage had for the overpair.The turn was the
, improving Saca to a full house. The river brought the , and Saca moves to 3.1 million. Ramage slips to 1 million.
The flop came out
, and Gordo quickly moved all in for 895,000. Phillips snap-called, and Gordo could only lower his head in acknowledgement.Showdown
Gordo:
Phillips:
Gordo was drawing only to running queens for the win, or runner-runner for the chop. The
on the turn was nowhere in the ballpark though, ending the hand right there. A meaningless 
filled out the board, and Phillips has claimed the full stack of Fernando Gordo.
Nourafchan
Lacay
Lacay's railbirds immediately began boisterously calling for a "cinq."
Lacay didn't get a "cinq" on the
flop, but he got a six on the turn. The river was the and Lacay took down the pot, sending Nourafchan to the rial in 67th place.
. Kopp rolled over .Powell began commenting on how this always happens. This type of scenario always happens to him he said, and he went to say how he always goes out in situations like this.
The flop came down
. It did pair Kopp, but it was the wrong pair as he was still behind Powell's kings.The turn brought the
. Powell was still in the lead.The river was the
though, and Kopp stole the hand on the river from Powell.Kopp now has 7.9 million chips after eliminating Powell on the hand.
. Maimone checked, Brice bet 130,000, and Maimone called. The turn was the 
. This time Maimone check-called Brice's bet of 175,000.The river brought the
, and both checked. Maimone showed 
and Brice 
. Brice took the pot with his jacks, and moves up to 2.8 million.
flop. Bilzarian bet 250,000 and Lacay called. The turn came the 
and Lacay check-called another 525,000. The river fell the 
and Lacay checked a third time. Bilzerian moved all in for 1,695,000 and Lacay gave it up. Lacay is down to 4.5 million in chips while Bilzarian is up to 2.5 million.
The two men went heads up to a flop showing
, and the action went check-check. The on the turn drew a bet of 150,000 from Ivey, and Vezina put in the call.The last card off the deck was the
. Ivey fired again, 350,000 this time, and Vezina sent his cards back to the dealer face-down. He's on 6.5 million now if you're scoring at home.
