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2010 Main Event Champion Jonathan Duhamel is doing well in today's shootout so far.
With the board reading 
, the player in the cutoff bet 325 and Duhamel called. Both players opted to check when the 
came on the turn. The river brought the 
and the cutoff checked to Duhamel who bet 550. The cutoff called but then mucked his hand when Duhamel revealed his 
for trip tens.
After the hand Duhamel's stack grew to 8,000.
It's starting to look like a two horse race as Cathy Hong and Rupert Elder continue to battle it out. Hong won this latest round, she fired out 1,025 on the turn of a 
board before both players checked the 
river. Hong flipped over 
and she took down the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted | |
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Busted |
Erik Cajelais has a massive lead three-handed at his table and currently looking like one of the favourites to be first into the second round and in the money.
Nearby, Soren Kongsgaard is also three-handed, however he is the short stack.
A short-stacked player went all in preflop with the 
and Scott Seiver called holding the 
. The board ran out 
and Seiver chipped up to 15,200 while the other player headed to the rail.
After a series of back and forth raises David Singer and another player got all the chips in the middle preflop.
Singer: 
Opponent: 
The board ran out 
and the other player was eliminated while Singer's stack grew to around 8,000.
Filippo Candio's table has been one of the fastest of the day so far, as they are now three handed. However, one of those stack has an empty seat and is being blinded out, meaning Candio and his other opponent are essentially playing heads up. At the moment, Candi is facing a 2-to-1 chip deficit. From the time it took us to get from Candio's table to our computers and back, that seat has been taken by none other then Nick Schulman. Should be an interesting three handed battle.
Taking a quick scan of the room we've noticed a few more chairs that are now empty. Barry Greenstein, Phil Laak, Maria Ho, Yevgeniy Timoshenko and Annette Obrestad have all been eliminated from the field.
When we got to the table, the board read 
. Justin Bonomo and Joe Tehan were heads up, and Tehan had put out a bet that covered virtually everyone at the table, and Bonomo had a decision for all his chips. Bonomo called, and Tehan flipped up 
for rivered trips. Bonomo showed and slide his chips over to Tehan, who has a nice sized chip lead at his table.
