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Sanjay Pandya was left with just 5,000 after having ante the same amount, which went in when he received the bring-in. Elior Sion proceeded to complete, David Rogers called, and their were to active players to the turn.
Rogers ended up check-folding to a bet, leaving Pandya to face off against Sion for his tournament life.
Sion: / /
Pandya: / /
Much to Sion's dismay, Pandya managed to scoop the pot. With the antes, he is now up to right around 60,000.
David Chiu completed with the and then called a raise by Ylon Schwartz, who was showing the . The former proceeded to call bets by the latter on both the turn and fifth street, but then raise a bet on sixth. Schwartz made the call and then check-called a bet on seventh.
Ylon: (x-x) / / (x)
Chiu: (x-x) / / (x) ()
"Three pair," Chiu said as he flipped over his hand. Schwartz stared at his opponent's jacks and eights for a moment before sending his cards to the muck.
Stephen Chidwick completed with the , and Ylon Schwartz made it three bets with the showing. Chidwick called, and off they went.
Chidwick: (x-x) / / (x)
Schwartz: (x-x) / / (x)
Chidwick check-called a bet on fourth street, and it was at this point that David Chiu stood from his seat in between the two men.
"Ylon must have two kings," he whispered in our ears.
Schwartz bet fifth, too, but Chidwick raised him. Schwartz called, then got another of his own bets in on sixth. Chidwick called that one, and they both checked the river.
Schwartz opened up , and David Chiu wins the prize. Schwartz wins the pot, though, and he's really doing some damage in the last hour. That pot pushes him back up into second place overall with right around 850,000 chips.
We caught the action on the turn when Ylon Schwartz bet and received a call from Marlon Milne. The latter took the lead on fifth, but still checked to Schwartz, who thought for a few moments before putting out a bet.
Milne made the call, checked sixth, and watched as Schwartz fired out another bet. This time Milne released his hand, preserving his stack of 250,000.
Our nine remaining players have bagged up their chips, and they're on the move. The Pavilion stage will host the rest of this event, and we're heading over for one more knockout to set the official final table.
Allen Cunningham's sixth gold bracelet will have to wait for now. It was the Razz orbit that did Cunningham in. We watched him drop a big pot to Elior Sion to reduce him to just a stub of a stack, and the rest of it got in a short while later. It was Marlon Milne who did the knocking out, and Cunningham gets a pay bump up to $17,150 for his efforts here this week.
bring-in. Elior Sion proceeded to complete, David Rogers called, and their were to active players to the turn.
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and then called a raise by Ylon Schwartz, who was showing the 
. The former proceeded to call bets by the latter on both the turn and fifth street, but then raise a bet on sixth. Schwartz made the call and then check-called a bet on seventh.
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, and Ylon Schwartz made it three bets with the 
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, and David Chiu wins the prize. Schwartz wins the pot, though, and he's really doing some damage in the last hour. That pot pushes him back up into second place overall with right around 850,000 chips.
