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Tom Dwan: 
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Jon Turner: 
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It was a short-lived recovery for Tom Dwan.
The last of his chips went in on fifth street when he bet and then called all in to a raise from Jon Turner. The rest of the cards were dealt and Dwan failed to improve on his pair of kings. He headed for the door without even a min-cash to his name. Turner however managed to improve to a full house, and moved into the chip lead on 57,000.
In an interesting hand, Said Elsanafiri has collected a big pot at the expense of Alexey Tkachenko.
Tkachenko led the betting he whole way showing a pair of aces, depsite Elsanafiri raising on both fourth and fifth streets. On sixth and seventh, Elsanafiri thought better of raising again and decided to just call down.
Tkachenko: (
) / 
/
Elsanafiri: (
) / 
/ (X)
Tkachenko showed aces and kings but Elsanafiri had tens in the hole for a set to take down the pot. He's up to 40,000 with Tkachenko at 16,000.
We're not sure what happened, but our Multitabler Of The Day, Esther Rossi, has succumbed. She will be presumably consoled by the fact that she can now give her full attention to the Ladies' World Championship next door in the Pavilion Room.
A raising war broke out between Leonard Lombardo and John Ross which saw the last of Ross' chips in on third. Here's how the boards ran out:
Ross: (
) / 
/ (
)
Lombardo: () / 
/ (X)
Ross had buried aces but needed to spike a river to make two pair to better Lombardo's split jacks which made jacks and nines.
That hand put Ross up to 10,000 however those chips didn't last long as he was eliminated soon after.
Mikhail Smirnov: 
(X) / 
Oleg Shamardin: (XXX) /
Edwin Biber: 
(X) / 
Mikhail Smirnov was all in on fourth street, and Oleg Shamardin was all in by fifth or sixth. When it came to showdown, Biber flipped aces in the hole - it all went rather quickly so we didn't catch whether it a full house or just trips. Either way, Shamaridn mucked. Smirnov seemed to be enjoying himself rather more.
"Ahh ha ha, you are very lucky, man," Smirnov said as he revealed that he'd got his chips in with rolled up tens. Again, we couldn't quite catch the seventh card.
Either way, Shamardin and Smirnov both hit the rail. Biber collected both their stacks and moved up to 35,000.
Greg Raymer: (XXX) / 
Steven Albini: 
/ 
We got to the table in time to see Greg Raymer call bets from Steven Albini on fourth and fifth streets; both players checked on sixth. Albini bet again on seventh and Raymer sighed deeply. He tanked for a while and eventually made the call.
"Flush, and an eight low," announced Albini, presumably in training for next week's stud hi/lo event.
Raymer mucked, and was left with just 800.
A few hands later and Raymer got his last 500 chips in. He had kings up by seventh street, and a pair of deuces to go with them, but his opponent turned over an unforgiving quad tens, and we are down a Team PokerStars Pro, and the last American one at that.
The hopes of Team PokerStars will now be resting on Pat Pezzin (Canada) and Alex Kravchenko (Russia).
Pictures of the action.
Marco Traniello is down to his last 2,500 after losing a small pot against Mark Dickstein.
Traniello completed with the 
and action checked to sixth street when Dickstein fired a bet and Traniello called. Both players checked down the river.
Traniello: (XXX) / 
Dickstein: (
) / 
Traniello couldn't better the jacks of Dickstein and tossed his cards into the muck. Dickstein is up to 17,000.
Robert Ferdinand must have been feeling pretty confident when, all in, he turned over sevens full. However, his opponent turned over queens full for a relatively harsh cooler, and Ferdinand headed for the door.
Marco Traniello was all in for his last chips on third street, as Joseph Bolnick and Mark Dickstein continued betting on the side amongst the confusion of the dealer continually forgetting to deal cards to the all-in player.
When it was all said and done, the boards were spread as follows:
Traniello: () / 
Bolnick: () / 
Dickstein: () / 
Traniello made kings and eights which was good to take it down as Bolnick was eliminated. Traniello is up to 8,000.
