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Its been a rough start to the day for the David "Chino" Rheem, but he is back up to about 80,000 after busting Joe Sebok. Chino opened the pot with a raise to 4,500 and Sebok moved all in for roughly 27,000 with .
Chino called with a dominating and it held up to send Sebok to the rail at the start of Level 13.
Joshua Macciello has just doubled up through Shaun Deeb after both players committed their chips on a flop.
It was Macciello's pocket jacks ahead of Deeb's pocket tens and it stayed that way through the turn and river.
Deeb is down to just 28,000 while Macciello is now sitting pretty with 195,000.
TJ Cloutier raised to 5,200 in the cutoff and action folded to Mike Leah in the big blind. He asked Cloutier for a count and the poker veteran took a little offense. "If you paid attention to the game, you'd know what every one has, every time," said Cloutier.
Leah put in a re-raise, forcing a fold from Cloutier saying he had pocket eights. Leah turned over and joked, "TJ I couldn't see what you had because your hands are the size of footballs."
"I understand," said Cloutier. He dropped to 65,000 while Leah chips up to 123,000.
Jonathan Little's run in this tournament has come to an end after he tried to make something happen with his short stack holding but he ran into David Benefield's .
The board ran out and Benefield moves up to 145,000.
Jesse Chinni raised to 5,000 from under the gun before Dan Martin shoved all in for around 40,000 from middle position. Chinni made the call.
Chinni:
Martin:
The board ran out and despite picking up plenty of outs on the turn, Martin couldn't connect with the river and was sent to the rail. Chinni now sits with 156,000.
On a board, Eric "sheets" Haber checked and Vivek Rejkumar bet 5,500. Haber raised it to 15,000 and Rajkumar called. The turn brought the and Haber shoved for about 27,000.
Vivek called and tabled , getting Haber to muck and leave the table before the river hit. Vivek is up to 135,000.
After getting three-bet by David Miscikowski, Joshua Cooper shoved for about 75,000 and Miscikowski made the call.
Miscikowski:
Cooper:
The board ran out and Cooper spiked the river seven to double up to about 164,000. Miscikowski still has about 200,000.
Ted Lawson raised to 5,000 from under the gun with the cutoff player and Phil Hellmuth in the big blind making the call.
They saw a flop of and Hellmuth checked to Lawson who fired 15,000. The cutoff player folded as Hellmuth made the call.
The turn was the and Hellmuth checked again to Lawson who announced he was all in. Hellmuth removed his glasses and asked for a count. It was around 75,000 to Hellmuth and he went into the tank.
"Go ahead and fold!" chirped Lawson.
"You got aces?" quizzed Hellmuth.
"I got two eights!" replied Lawson, which drew a few chuckles from the table.
Eventually Lawson called the clock, much to the surprise of the table who had seen Lawson tank for a long time earlier in the day.
The floor gave Hellmuth 30 seconds to act and he decided to fold his pocket queens face up to the shock of the fans on the rail.
It was a tremendous fold as Lawson flashed pocket aces!
"YES BABY! I can dodge bullets! That's what I do! That's what I do baby! I can't play any better!" yelled an excited Hellmuth as he stood and walked around the nearby tables.
That's why he's an eleven-time bracelet winner folks!
Max Lykov just attempted to take out two all-in players preflop, both holding pocket kings. Lykov was trailing with and couldn't find another ten as the board rolled out .
Lykov is down to 36,000.