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2009 WSOP Main Event champion Joe Cada seeks his second bracelet
A total of 13 players still remain as one of the toughest tournaments of the World Series of Poker, the Event #32: Six-Handed No-Limit Hold'em Championship, heads into its final day. None other than Max Silver, 2011 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event eighth-place finisher, leads the way followed by an array of top players.
Hiren Patel sits in second place, and he's looking for his second final table this summer after finishing seventh in one of the $1,500 events. Joe Cada, the 2009 WSOP Main Event champion, sits in third and he will be more focused than ever on winning his second bracelet after finishing in the top four of three events over the last two summers in Las Vegas.
Today's other contenders include former November Niners JC Tran and Jeremy Ausmus, two-time bracelet winners Scott Clements and Erick Lindgren, six-time bracelet winner Layne Flack, and the winner of last week's $10,000 Razz Championship, George Danzer.
Martin Jacobson ($4.7 million in career earnings), Lee Markholt ($3.7 million), Dario Sammartino ($938K), and Kyle White ($81K) are also among the players still alive for the gold as we head into the final day.
Stay tuned for all your live coverage via the PokerNews Live Reporting Team, because we will be with you all throughout this great day of poker.
Layne Flack opened for 28,000 under the gun and George Danzer defended from the big blind. Both players then checked the flop, and the was put out on the turn. Danzer led out for 27,000, and Flack responded by moving all in. Danzer double checked his cards and called off for 269,000.
Flack:
Danzer:
Flack had picked a bad spot to make a move as he was drawing dead to Danzer's trips. The meaningless was put out on the river, and Flack sent the vast majority of his chips across the table.
In the very next hand, Max Silver raised to 24,000 from the button and then called when Flack moved all in for approximately 30,000 from the big blind.
Silver:
Flack:
The flop gave Flack the lead with two pair, but the spiked on the turn to give Silver a flush. The river failed to help Flack, and he was sent to the rail in 13th place.
"Good luck," Flack offered before shaking hands with the remaining players at the table.
Lee Markholt was seated under the gun when he moved all in for his final 117,000 chips and, from his immediate left, it was Jeremy Ausmus who made the call. All the other players folded and the showdown went as following.
"I misread my hand," Markholt sighed as he flipped over his cards.
Markholt:
Ausmus:
The board ran out and Markholt was knocked out in 12th place. Markholt shook hands with the remaining players and left the room while Ausmus sits on one of the bigger stacks.
Scott Clements moved all in from the button for 163,000 chips and George Danzer immediately gave up his small blind. JC Tran went into the tank for a bit before ultimately made the cal.
"Fours?" Clements asked Tran, who flipped over .
"Close," Tran said, as Clements tabled his .
The flop brought and Clements seemed to he headed towards a double up. On the turn however the popped up and the river was the to give Tran a bigger two-pair combination. Clemetns got up from his seat and left the tournament area, and we are now down to two tables of five.
Jeremy Ausmus raised to 32,000 in the cutoff, Hiren "Sunny" Patel three-bet to 106,000 out of the small blind, and Ausmus responded with a four-bet to 195,000. Patel moved all in for what looked like 500,000 or so, and Ausmus quickly called.
Ausmus:
Patel:
The window card was the , prompting Ausmus to let out a long sigh, but it was cut short when the poked behind it. The completed the flop, and the turn brought the .
"Ten," Patel said softly.
A ten would give both players Broadway, but the bricked off on the river and Patel was eliminated in 10th place.
Joe Cada raised on the button, Max Silver put in a three-bet out of the small blind, and George Danzer cold four-bet all in for 500,000 or so out of the big blind. Cada folded, and Silver quickly called.
Silver:
Danzer:
Danzer's hand was crushed, and he failed to improve as the flop, turn, and river came , eliminating him in ninth place.
Dario Sammartino raised to 33,000 in the cutoff, Kyle White moved all in for 256,000 on the button, and Erick Lindgren cold-called out of the small blind. Sammartino folded.
White:
Lindgren:
The flop fell , giving White a gut-shot straight draw to go aling with his outs to make a pair of aces. The turn was the , changing nothing, and the on the river was a brick as well.
White was eliminated in eighth place, earning $66,382, while Lindgren is up to 1.7 million chips.
The seven remaining players are now moving into the mothership, where they will form an unofficial final table. We will have the draw and counts shortly.
Jeremy Ausmus raised to 45,000 under the gun and Max Silver called from the small blind. Joe Cada made it 145,000 from the big blind and the action was back on Ausmus.
Ausmus went into the tank for a while before he decided to four-bet up 300,000. Silver folded quickly and now it was Cada's time to tank. Cada opted to move all in and Ausmus called immediately.
Cada:
Ausmus:
The board ran out and Cada doubled up his 963,000-chip stack.
The show gets off to a bumpy start with thanks to a few technical difficulties, but a great story about a David Williams bluff and another about "hood" poker get the ball rolling again. Dan O'Brien then joins the program to talk about his jet ski accident, his Me vs. U challenge against Danielle Andersen, and more.
Joe Cada opened for a raise from under the gun, JC Tran three-bet to 120,000 from the hijack seat, and Cada called.
The flop fell , Cada checked, and Tran continued for 126,000. Cada called. The turn was the , Cada checked again, and Tran fired another 201,000. Cada again called.
The completed the board, Cada knuckled a third and final time, Tran tanked for a considerable amount of time before checking behind, and Cada dragged the pot with .
flop, and the 
was put out on the turn. Danzer led out for 27,000, and Flack responded by moving all in. Danzer double checked his cards and called off for 269,000.
was put out on the river, and Flack sent the vast majority of his chips across the table.
spiked on the turn to give Silver a flush. The 
river failed to help Flack, and he was sent to the rail in 13th place.
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to give Tran a bigger two-pair combination. Clemetns got up from his seat and left the tournament area, and we are now down to two tables of five.
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and Cada doubled up his 963,000-chip stack.
completed the board, Cada knuckled a third and final time, Tran tanked for a considerable amount of time before checking behind, and Cada dragged the pot with 
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