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Many of you have been asking about Steven Van Zadelhoff and we are here to deliver.
The structure in any $1,500 Event has a tendency to make players play fast. As such, you tend to see chip stacks accumulate early as people are forced to play their stack short. However, Steven Van Zadelhoff has already amassed an amazing 19,600 chips and is the current chip leader as far as we can tell.
Beth Shak was in middle position and checked the flop of 
to a late position player. He bet 1,375 and Shak moved all in. He made the call with 3,000 more behind.
Shak: 
Late Position: 
The board completed with 
and Shak slipped to just over 9,000.
We picked up the action on the river in a three way pot. The board was 
and the first player checked before the second player bet 1,425. Hinkle, third to act, re-raised all in for 5,100 and after some deliberation, the initial bettor called.
Hinkle showed 
for a full house, well ahead of the 
flush of his opponent. Hinkle now sits with 12,000 chips.
We have reached the end of Level 4 and players are going on their second 20-minute break of the day. This is also the time that all the rebuy lammers have to be cashed in. Registration will be closed once the break is over and as soon as we can give you solid registration and payout numbers we will.
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Sorel Mizzi raised from early position to 350. The cutoff called and the big blind three bet to 1,250. Mizzi decided to push the action with a four-bet all in for about 6,000 which isolated the action with the player in the big blind.
The opponent, who had more chips than Mizzi, made the call and we were racing. Mizzi's was slightly behind the 
of his opponent and the 
was no help to Mizzi's overcard's. The turn was the 
and the river bricked the 
and Mizzi hit the rail.
Level: 5
Blinds: 100/200
Ante: 0
Registration has now been closed for the tournament. There were 1,339 (unofficial) entrants and we are down to 774.
If there's a nicer guy in poker than Greg Raymer we don't know about him. The player on the button min-raised on the button and Raymer moved all in from the big blind. The player called for 3,100 and the hands were turned up.
Raymer:
Player: 
The board ran 
and Raymer lamented, "I wish I had ace eight." Raymer never stopped smiling as he sent chips across the table.
Jonathan Duhamel just left the tournament area but was nice enough to stop at the PokerNews desk and give the details of his last hand. It was an all in preflop and Duhamel had pocket queens versus pocket eights. It was a 15,000 pot and his opponent caught an eight on the flop.
Allen Kessler was a last minute registrant but there was some confusion to what he did with his dealer card. The table he had been assigned to must have broken when he got there. He claimed to have handed the proof of payment and an I.D. to that dealer who in turn gave him his new seat assignment. When he got to his new seat, however, people insisted he show both his proof of payment and his I.D. to get chips, despite having already received a new seat card. The problem was the dealer had taken the proof of payment, as they always do, when checking I.D.'s.
A floor person was sent over to settle the mess before it got more heated and Kessler is currently playing without any more problems.
