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Sergey Chernykh began today as our chip leader, and started well early on, building his stack up over 100,000. But the last couple of levels haven't gone so well for the Russian, and just now he lost most of his stack in a hand versus Patrick Poirer.
We came upon this one after all was said and done except for the counting of the chips afterward. Chernykh had , Poirer had
, and the board showed
. Chernykh is now down to 8,500, while Poirer sits with about 70,000.
In early position Scott Montgomery opened the pot with a 5,500-chip raise. In middle position, another player popped it to 11,000 and Sven Leu moved all in from the small blind, for an additional 65,000 chips.
Montgomery called and the other player folded.
Showdown
Leu:
Montgomery:
The board gave Montgomery, almost, a full double up is now up to 155,000 chips. Leu is out of the tournament.
Firhinia Murray was just all in with and against Antonio Esfandiari's
. The board came
, and Murray survived.
She's up to 39,300 now. Esfandiari still has a stack of 102,000.
With that double-up, Firhinia Murray survives as one of the three women we currently have left in the field.
Also still with chips is Brigitte Korak, who has 52,000. And Stacy Matuson-Taylor -- who finished 16th in the Ladies No-Limit Hold'em Championship (Event #22) -- just doubled up to move to 61,000.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em. 20 minutes to recharge.
Level: 15
Blinds: 1,500/3,000
Ante: 400
Our remaining 127 players are back in their seats and the first hands of Level 15 are being dealt.
It was just announced that the tourney would play through Level 19 -- i.e., five more one-hour levels -- before concluding tonight.
While most did not react, there were a few groan-like sounds as players mentally calculated how much longer we'd be going tonight. Playing through Level 19 amounts to just a little over 10 levels of play today, though -- just about what the plan for Day 2 had been all along.
"All right boys," said Young Phan as he stood and pushed his remaining 10,400 forward from middle position. "I'm all in." He got one caller in Eloi Relange from a couple of seats over, and the others all folded.
"I can beat king-queen!" said Phan, tabling . Then Relange showed his --
-- and Phan could only laugh.
The flop came , then the
came on the turn, meaning Phan was still drawing live. But the river was the
, and Phan was eliminated.
"Hey, I made the nut low!" said Phan with a grin before shaking hands with his tablemates. Relange is now up to 38,000.
Peter Kim opened the pot in middle position and Jeffrey Chu moved all in from the small blind. Kim called. Chu tabled and Kim showed
.
The board came out and Kim doubled up to 27,000 and Chu slipped to 88,000 chips.