Daniel Negreanu fired out on third, fourth and fifth street before Brandon Adams raised enough to put Negreanu all in. Negreanu obliged for his last 24,000 on fifth to see the following boards tabled.
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Negreanu caught the and Adams the on sixth street before Adams took the lead with the on seventh.
“Nothing across would be a good sweat” stated Negreanu as he started peeping at his seventh card.
“Paint card . . . diamond” continued Negreanu before he stood up to peer over at Adams’ board.
“Nup” he has it (in reference to Adams’ ) as Negreanu rolled over the to ensure his elimination from the tournament.
“Off to play the limit” he added as he ducked under the railing to go and find his chair and chip stack in Event #12: $1,500 Limit Hold’em while Adams climbs to 160,000 in chips.
On his final hand of this tournament, Greg Mueller had the betting lead on every street. Every time he checked it to Joe Cassidy, and every time Cassidy bet. On fourth street, Cassidy's bet chased out two other players so that Mueller and Cassidy were heads-up. Mueller check-called fifth street.
By sixth street, Mueller had only 10,500 left in his stack. He checked and then deliberated after Cassidy bet. Finally Mueller stuck in a raise. Cassidy just called.
Mueller smoked a check on the river. Cassidy said, "I'll bet it," and tossed in 500 -- all that Mueller had left. Mueller called, then mucked his hand when Cassidy turned up for a pair of jacks.
There's a new chip leader in town. His name is Men "the Master" Nguyen. Nguyen bet every street against Pat Pezzin, and Pezzin called him down each time until seventh street. There, when Nguyen fired out one last bet, Pezzin folded.
Pezzin's fold didn't stop Nguyen from showing his hand. He had in the hole for an extremely well-disguised queens full of aces.
Nguyen appears to be leading the tournament now with 340,000. Pezzin is hanging on with 65,000.
The tournament is consolidating at a more rapid pace than expected. We're down to 26 players left in the field after Scott Seiver, Matt Glantz and Max Pescatori all busted in rapid succession.
Eric Bachman has taken down a sizeable pot to soar to over 300,000 in chips.
Buchman led the betting on every street with his three opponents calling him down - albeit Dan Heimiller folding on sixth - until seventh street when they all folded to a 10,000-chip bet from Buchman.
Buchman: (X)(X) / / (X)
Heimiller: (X)(X) / (folded on sixth)
Keith Sexton: (X)(X) / / (X)
Joe Cassidy: (X)(X) / / (X)
The main casualty in the hand was Sexton who was just left with 5,000 in chips, and a few hands later would be sent to the rail by Heimiller.
Nikolay Evdakov completed for 5,000 and Men Nguyen made the call before making it two-bets on fourth street.
Evdakov called and then fired out on sixth only to call another two-bet raise from Nguyen before taking the aggressive line once again and firing out on sixth.
Nguyen slowed down by just calling before folding to a 10,000-chip bet on seventh with each player's respective boards reading as follows.
Evdakov: (X)(X) / / (X)
Nguyen: (X)(X) / / (X)
Following the hand Nguyen slipped to 345,000 as Evdakov climbs to 215,000 in chips.
Pat Pezzin completed as last to act after Men Nguyen was forced to bring it in. Nguyen raised, with Pezzin making the call. Both players caught an open pair on fourth street. Pezzin, with the bigger pair, had the betting lead and opted to double-bet. Nguyen called.
On fifth street Pezzin bet again. He had only 15,000 behind his 10,000-chip bet. Nguyen asked for a count, then tanked for more than a minute before finally surrendering his hand.
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