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World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit winner, Scott Stanko, has eliminated the WSOP bracelet winner Ted Lawson. It was a pre flop clash that created the final curtain for Lawson.
Stanko raised to 7,000 in mid-position, Lawson moved all-in for 29,500 on the button and Stanko made the call.
Stanko
Lawson
Board:
The aces held up for Stanko and he was up to 221,000. Ted Lawson bows out after securing his 24th WSOP cash.
We caught up on a flop of to see Dilyan Kovachev get his last 51,000 in the middle. Dutch Boyd called, showing for a flopped two pair that was ahead of Kovachev's .
The turn brought the , giving Boyd a full house. The completed the board and Kovachev was sent home in 34th place.
Hats off to Samuel Stein. He won't feel like it right now, but he deserves a lot of credit for going so deep in his search for back-to-back World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets in the same tournament.
He was eliminated in 35th place and takes home a pay check for $8,812. His vanquisher was Vadzim Kursevich who is looking mean and keen with a chip stack of 400,000 chips. Interestingly, Kursevich has the chip leader Chino Rheem sitting two seats to his left.
Steve Merrifield raised to 6,000 in first position, Raul Paez called a few seats over before Oleksii Kovalchuk squeezed to 33,000 in mid-position. Merrifield folded but Paez decided to take a flop out of position.
Flop:
Paez put Kovalchuk all-in for around 30,000 and the World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet holder made the call.
Kovalchuk
Paez
So Kovalchuk was ahead with his aces and that's the way the result stayed after the and completed the board.
Table 436 is currently housing three of the big boys, Chino Rheem Vadzim Kursevich and Austin Scott (who just told us he likes to be called Gabe but for the sake of continuity he will remain as Austin). Here are the current seat positions, chip counts and a few hands.
We joined the action at the turn and the board was showing . The two players in the hand were Viacheslav Igin and Chino Rheem (no surprise there then). Igin checked, Rheem bet 25,000 and Igin called. At the river we saw the and both players checked.
"Two pair," said Igin.
"Good," said Rheem before showing a pair of fives for the set and Igin mucked his hand.
Rheem:
Then Scott raised to 8,000 in first position, Rheem called in the hijack seat as did
Igin on the button. The flop was and a 17,500 Rheem bet won the pot.
Erik Seidel limped in late position and the player in the cutoff followed suit. The small blind completed and the big blind checked his option.
The flop brought the and all four players checked. The peeled off on the turn and the small blind checked. The big blind pushed out 15,000 and Seidel quickly called. The player in the cutoff tanked for about a minute and a half before putting 64,000 into the middle. It folded back around to Seidel who pondered for roughly a minute before mucking his hand. Seidel is currently sitting on about 55,000.
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and all four players checked. The 
