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Level: 16
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Michael Mizrachi pulled off an improbable run on Wednesday, taking down the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for $10 million in the same year he won the $50,000 WSOP Poker Players Championship.
"The Grinder," now an eight-time bracelet winner, dusted off the competition on the final table's second day in just over his one-hour prediction. He first eliminated the smallest stack, Kenny Hallaert, the sixth-place finisher in 2016, on the first hand by winning a 60/40. Hallaert, a PokerStars Team Pro, took home $3 million.
Mizrachi then put the new smallest stack, Braxton Dunaway, all in with A♦10♦ and received a call from 10♥6♥. The best hand would hold up through the five community cards, and Dunaway was out in third place ($4 million) two hands into the session.
The remaining players in Event #100 are on a 20-minute break. Play will resume at approximately 4:30.
Ethan Yau and Nicholas Palma got it all in preflop, with "Rampage" behind in equity, but ahead in chips.
Nicholas Palma: Q♣Q♦ 
Ethan Yau: 7♣7♥
Palma, almost instinctively, wasn't even looking as the flop rolled out 7♦3♣4♦ putting him way behind. The 10♣J♥ runout sealed his fate, as his World Series came to an end.
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Omar Mehmood went all in with his final 20,500 chips from middle position. Stanley Lee called on the button.
Omar Mehmood: Q♠Q♣
Stanley Lee: A♦9♥
It was a rollercoaster of a runout, running A♥3♥7♥8♦Q♥. Mehmood was ahead, then behind, then thought for a second that he was a winner.
"Yes," he said when he hit a set of queens on the river.
But then he noticed that Lee had made a flush on the river for the knockout.
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421,000
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Keven Stammen moved all-in from early position for 16,500, and action folded around to Sandeep Mathai in the big blind who thought for a while and made the call.
Keven Stammen: A♣K♦
Sandeep Mathai: 8♠6♠
A safe runout for Stammen of A♥7♥K♠J♦5♥ to send him the pot for a full double up and some.
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Garen Zobian moved all in from the hijack for his stack of 24,500 chips. Shawn Buchanan went all in for more in the cutoff. Oscar Alache called from the big blind.
Garen Zobian: 8♥8♣
Shawn Buchanan: 10♦10♥
Oscar Alache: A♣K♣
Buchanan began begging for a "special eight" and got his wish with the flop coming 8♠6♥2♦. But there were two cards to come.
The turn-river of 7♦9♥ led to a straight for Buchanan and an exit for Zobian.
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Preston Mcewen raised to 10,000 from the cutoff, and Bobby Ip flat-called from the small blind only for Justin Beaver to move all-in from the big blind for 44,000.
Mcewen then moved all-in over the top, and he had both players covered. Ip folded.
Justin Beaver: K♥K♠
Preston Mcewen: 8♠9♠
No help for Mcewen on the 3♠2♣5♣2♥3♥ runout, and Beaver was shipped the pot for a full double up and more.
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