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The tournament will restart for the third day's play at 12pm (8pm UK time).

Chip Standings for Day Three...

1 Roland Dewolfe 535,000 62 6
2 Phil Hellmuth 528,100 46 9
3 Sorel Mizzi 499,300 61 7
4 Steve Wong 476,300 60 4
5 Paul Wasicka 430,200 52 9
6 Patrik Antonious 408,300 64 2
7 Stan Fulton 397,100 59 9
8 Jake Minter 396,500 59 8
9 Can Hua 384,800 53 3
10 Paul Lee 382,700 41 2
11 Lee Markholt 349,700 56 2
12 Anna Wroblewski 346,600 53 7
13 Dan Lowe 327,500 63 8
14 Benjamin Johnson 326,000 46 5
15 Loi Phan 320,200 50 2
16 Marcello Del Grosso 319,500 45 2
17 Franco Brunetti 319,400 60 5
18 Isaac Haxton 318,700 50 5
19 Mike Wattel 313,100 41 4
20 Steve Mandelbaum 312,300 51 9
21 Kevin O'Connell 308,000 58 6
22 Tom Dobrilovic 306,800 51 6
23 Doron Malinasky 304,400 41 7
24 Gavin Griffin 291,400 49 2
25 David Baker 288,300 50 4
26 Marc Goodwin 287,800 49 7
27 Peter Rho 280,800 43 5
28 Raymond Davis 278,600 54 6
29 Kirk Morrison 271,800 64 6
30 Justin Young 269,300 55 5
31 Jeppe Mikkelsen 267,000 59 3
32 Alvin Zeidenfeld 264,700 64 3
33 Sam Farha 253,300 47 4
34 David Oppenheim 253,000 49 1
35 Pramesh Bansi 250,600 47 3
36 Philip Tom 248,300 63 9
37 Elia Ahmadian 240,000 50 6
38 Danny Alaei 237,300 43 4
39 Grant Lang 237,000 44 9
40 Eric Hershler 236,500 59 2
41 Shawn Buchann 236,400 57 9
42 Freddie Deeb 235,600 44 7
43 Ram Vaswani 234,900 55 9
44 David Levi 233,700 64 7
45 Richard Anthony 230,800 45 7
46 Matt Brady 230,100 43 1
47 James Worth 228,200 55 8
48 Thomas Schreiber 226,900 58 1
49 Henry Michael Thuritz 223,700 42 1
50 Barney Boatman 223,500 53 9
51 Carlos Zambrano 221,000 51 1
52 Carlos Mortensen 220,900 48 7
53 Amir Vahedi 218,500 42 7
54 Bryan Devonshire 217,800 48 3
55 Todd Rebello 206,000 52 1
56 Eric Kesselman 204,500 49 9
57 Robert Nehrayan 199,600 57 3
58 David Daneshgar 194,500 55 7
59 Justin Bonomo 193,300 62 2
60 George Marlow 190,900 64 8
61 Jesse Martin 186,800 61 5
62 Jason Fretag 185,800 56 9
63 Antonio Salorio 178,500 41 6
64 Daniel Shak 178,000 60 7
65 Simon Moussa 175,000 64 9
66 Adeeb Harb 174,900 60 1
67 Scott Clements 171,400 45 4
68 Chip Reese 171,100 43 6
69 Michael Xu 168,200 52 3
70 John Spadavecchia 167,700 41 5
71 Robert Mizrachi 163,300 51 8
72 Martin Deknijff 160,500 48 4
73 Nek-Pal Singh 160,200 59 5
74 Ronald Haeri 160,000 45 5
75 John Nathan 157,600 46 2
76 Eric Deregt 154,800 48 1
77 Christian Kruel 154,300 57 8
78 Joe Tehan 153,400 58 8
79 Tom Lee 150,800 56 7
80 Tom Pniak 150,000 41 8
81 Hoyt Corkins 148,600 63 4
82 Bill Ferrand 148,100 56 4
83 Abraham Mosseri 147,900 47 9
84 Lonnie Heimowitz 147,600 57 4
85 John Pires 147,100 47 2
86 Quinn Do 145,000 60 8
87 Phil Ivey 143,400 55 3
88 Todd Keikoan 143,200 41 3
89 Kyle Carlston 142,800 42 6
90 Dustin Woolf 140,700 47 6
91 Joseph Grebanier 138,600 52 8
92 Shawn Chaconas 137,800 51 4
93 Timothy McCarthy 130,100 56 8
94 Jordan Siegal 129,500 46 1
95 Vinny Vinh 129,300 64 5
96 Gregg Merkow 128,100 42 3
97 Rob Hollink 128,000 42 4
98 Jack Karban 126,200 57 6
99 Tommy Vu 125,800 49 3
100 John Harris 123,500 52 5
101 Jason Eakes 122,700 64 4
102 Amnon Filippi 122,200 58 3
103 Jonathan Little 121,300 50 9
104 Ben Sabrin 120,600 60 9
105 Flaminio Malaguti 120,000 52 7
106 Ted Kearly 118,800 44 1
107 Bill Gazes 117,600 45 8
108 Bruce Yamron 116,600 63 3
109 Thomas Schneider 116,500 43 3
110 Jim Mc Crink 115,500 61 8
111 Tom Werthmann 113,900 44 3
112 Derek Harrington 112,300 49 4
113 Mark Stubbs 112,300 49 5
114 Sam Grizzle 112,000 42 5
115 Paul Testud 111,700 45 3
116 Rehne Pedersen 111,100 60 3
117 David Stroj 111,000 54 3
118 Jennifer Harman 110,600 61 2
119 Billy Baxter 109,500 63 2
120 Johan Storakers 109,300 45 9
121 Erica Schoenburg 107,200 56 6
122 Noah Jefferson 106,800 63 7
123 Thien Phan 106,700 49 6
124 Lamar Wilkinson 103,900 56 3
125 Richard Harroch 103,700 42 8
126 Daniel Elizondo 102,300 55 4
127 Rocco Bucci 101,700 58 9
128 Scott Fischman 101,500 63 1
129 Erik Friberg 101,400 61 1
130 Gevork Kasabyan 100,800 54 8
131 Fred David 98,500 50 1
132 Guy Laliberte 98,400 44 2
133 Robert Goldfarb 95,500 58 4
134 Kevin Keller 95,500 43 9
135 Tom Koral 93,800 41 1
136 Wayne Boich 93,700 59 4
137 Jani Sointula 91,500 48 9
138 Franklin Caldwell 91,200 45 6
139 Jamie Gold 91,000 44 6
140 Robeert Wazelle 89,400 61 6
141 David Solomon 88,000 53 8
142 Atsushi Osawa 84,200 53 2
143 Mark Gregorich 84,100 61 4
144 James Patton 83,200 48 2
145 John Myung 83,100 43 8
146 David Dicken 83,000 56 5
147 Ian Johns 82,600 43 7
148 Jaime Ligator 81,600 46 4
149 Ross Boatman 81,100 44 4
150 Lyle Berman 80,500 62 8
151 Jimmy Ngoc Tran 80,200 50 8
152 Ed Teems 79,900 56 1
153 Isabelle Mercier 79,600 47 8
154 Hollis Stabler 79,600 57 7
155 Neil Chriss 79,000 51 7
156 Daniel Smith 77,700 52 2
157 Gary Haubelt 77,600 42 2
158 James Van Alstyne 77,300 52 4
159 Jared Hamby 76,800 53 4
160 Liz Lieu 76,500 58 7
161 Jeff Littlefield 74,600 57 1
162 Begir Salihu 74,100 62 9
163 Joe Sebok 73,900 49 8
164 David Singer 73,200 54 4
165 James Lee 71,600 46 6
166 Bradley Helm 70,500 59 1
167 Ben Roberts 70,500 57 5
168 Cliff Josephy 70,200 46 8
169 Stephen Hooper 69,000 54 7
170 Rick Barstow 66,700 47 5
171 Melissa Hayden 66,400 48 5
172 Scott Mayfield 65,000 62 4
173 Thomas Wahlroos 64,100 47 7
174 Greg Mueller 62,200 63 6
175 Bob Stupak 61,200 55 2
176 Peter Haslam 60,800 46 3
177 Alan Sass 60,400 53 6
178 Abel Meijberg 60,200 50 3
179 Berry Johnston 58,400 54 2
180 Wei Kai Chang 57,500 59 7
181 Louis Werman 57,400 62 7
182 Bob Feduniak 55,100 58 2
183 Allen Kessler 52,400 48 8
184 Alan Fixel 52,300 47 1
185 Sean McCabe 52,200 44 5
186 Andrew Micali 51,900 59 6
187 Bruce Corman 51,700 52 6
188 Shannon Shorr 51,500 46 7
189 Philip Matthews 50,100 54 5
190 Jorge Arias 49,500 58 5
191 Andrew Black 48,800 45 1
192 Mike Landers 48,800 61 9
193 Tony Cousineau 47,700 53 5
194 Chris Martin 45,600 55 6
195 Humberto Brenes 44,300 62 5
196 Don Webb 42,100 54 9
197 Steve Simmons 41,900 44 8
198 Matt Leftowitz 41,600 62 3
199 Matt Keikoan 41,300 62 1
200 Hertzel Zalewski 40,100 57 2
201 Paul Snead 40,000 48 6
202 Tim Hazlitt 39,700 54 1
203 Mickey Appleman 35,200 60 2
204 J C Tran 33,700 51 5
205 Ronnie Hofman 31,600 63 5
206 Chris McCormack 30,000 53 1
207 Deepak Bhatti 27,400 61 3
208 Peter Feldman 26,400 51 2
209 Patrick Poels 25,400 50 7
210 Kevin Saul 23,900 43 2
211 Jan Sjavik 23,800 64 1
212 Emeline Boich 23,300 60 6
213 Lenny Martin 22,100 55 1
214 James Dawick 15,400 51 3

Hertzel Zalewski has eliminated Hollis Stabler, Queens v A-6, no help for the cowboy hatted Stabler who said "Nice hand, sir" as he departed.

Steve Simmons is also OUT, moved all-in under the gun with A-T but ran into the big blind (Grant Lang) and his dominating Big Slick.

And so are Peter Feldman and Robert Mizrachi, both of whom have left vacant seats.

Steve Simmons is eliminated by Grant Lang, shouts of "Seat open, 57.2!" etc. are starting to pepper the otherwise subdued morning chip clicking.  Today will definitely see some quick dropping in numbers, and we'd better go have a look at the tables which are breaking first.  Here's Table Praz:

Alan Fixel
John Pires
Praz Bansi
Sam Farha
Rick Barstow
Dustin Woolf
Thomas Wahlroos
Isabelle Mercier
Abraham Mosseri

Chris McCormak is a gonna, unlucky to run A-Q from late position into Pocket Queens. No Ace hit.

Meanwhile, Tom Koral exits stage left at the hands of table neighbour Paul Lee.

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Johan Storakers has doubled up on the table in front of me.

There was a bit of confusion actually, as when I joined the table, Franklin Caldwell had his hand, A-Qs turned over, so I expect he accidentally revealed them thinking that we were at a showdown or the hand had finished already.

Either way, the Flop was 3c 9s 5s, and Johan announced all-in only for Franklin to respond with, "Well, I guess I gotta call," which he did indeed do.

However, Johan had Jacks which held up.

"You're probably best checking there and seeing a Turn card." commented Guy Laliberte, "He's going to call you whatever."

Also OUT:

Deepak Bhatti
Jim McCrink
Mickey Appleman

Yes, double table break already, the players are really going for it, and you're not going to be hearing that "All in stays in!" from any potential commentary...
The only one I've seen survive so far is Frankllin Caldwell who, having just lost two thirds of his stack, moved in with Ahrt 4s preflop (32.4k his stack).  Johan Storakers went for it with his Aspades 6s (the blinds are now 1,500/3,000 ante 400 to put this in perspective).  The board A-5-J-Q-Q  Chop-chop.

Cliff Josephy is OUT.

Unfortunate set over set encounter with Jaime Ligator, the reptile sounding veteran holding Jack's verus Josephy's Eights on a 8-4-J Flop.

"Amazingly, they didn't get it in until the river," reports table onlooker Bullit Pete. "They played it quite slowly in the end."

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James Patton and Jani Sointula have both exited Table 48.

Meanwhile, Philip Matthews has been eliminated from table 54, moving his shortstack in from the button with Qc Jc, but being picked off by Gevork Kasabyan in the big blind (Oh I wish he was in the 'Cut Off') and his accompanying Aspades Jc.

Board = Ah Js 2d 5s 5c

A dejected Matthews rose from his seat pessimistically as soon as the Flop was dealt.

Vinny Vinh is up on the stage bit, sharing a table with chipped-up Patrik Antonius and chipped-down Jan Sjåvik.  He's pictured here right after taking a pot from neighbour Jason Eakes, betting 25k on a 4d Jh 8s flop.  There was some dwelling and a pass'n'show, which I think, from what Vinny was saying, was an A-K.  Anyway, I find him almost hypnotic to listen to, and even though he doesn't have a Devilfish on there to wind up, he's still going to be talking it up with a peculiar intensity.  I finally pinpointed who he reminded me of - Fenster from the Usual Suspects...
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Jamie Gold is OUT -

Lucky he was on the table next to us, although you can hear his exiting cries all the way across the room, in all probability...

He made his move with 4h 6h, all in preflop, called by Grant Lang - "No pair," Gold half asks, half insists.  It turns out to be Aspades Kd against him.  The board brings no surprises for the Ace-high, which remains good.  "F**k!"  Shouts Gold, in quite an amicable way, actually.
Then, standing back from the table, "You going to give me a penalty?"
He might as well have said "Nah nah nahnah nah" as he went on his way.

Daniel Elizonda is OUT.

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Andy Black is OUT.

All-in pre-flop.

Black = Ac Js

Franklin Caldwell = Jc Tc

Board = Kh 9s 5d 7h Qh

Black didn't look best pleased as he swiftly left the cardroom.

Praz takes a big hit at the hands of Abraham Mosseri (pictured top - N.B. Guests - you must be signed in to view the pictures!).
Flop:  9c Jh Qc, apparently, but I caught the action on the 5s turn... Praz was thinking, called a bet of 25k or so.
River:  5d  Now Abraham bet out 70k, quickly.  Slightly less quickly, Praz called, and was shown Td Kd for only-the-nuts.  It looks like Mosseri's bluffy reputation might have encouraged this payoff - don't know what Praz had in this hand, but it could have been not-much.  Praz down to 112,000...

*Caveat - can't always tell the order in which the cards have come down; this story would be very, very different if the river had been the Queen... thought it best not to disturb Praz while he struggles with sleep deprivation and a dented stack.
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BullitPete Haslam:  72,000

Thomas Wahlroos made it 12k pre-flop, Mateyboy moved all-in for 65k and Thomas called.

A-Q vs. K-J, two Jacks hit the board.

The Finn down to 35k.

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Liz Lieu is walking around, phone in hand, handbag over her shoulder. Pretty sure she's a gonna.

After Wahlroos took that dent, he was all in soon thereafter, pushing on the small blind following two limps preflop.  One of them was Praz, who debated calling the 25k more.  "Spread the pot," he requests of the dealer, deciding eventually to give it up along with limper one.  This sets of a triangle of chat - Praz, Sam Farha and Abraham Mosseri.
Mosseri to Praz, "You a mathematician?"
Mosseri to Farha, "Spread the pot...mathematician, we just play the game."
Praz to Mosseri, "You a comedian?"
Mosseri to Praz, "No."
Praz to Mosseri, "You are quite funny though."
Farha to Praz, "You think so?"
Mosseri to whoever, "That's it, angry.."
Farha to Mosseri, "Hey, I'm on your side."

On his side or not, the very next hand saw Sam Farha raise preflop and Abraham Mosseri quickly plonk in a chunk of blue 10k chips, enough of a raise to set Farha all-in for 198k.  He went for it, in a split second the cards were on their backs:
Farha:  Qh Qd
Mosseri:  Ad Qc   and although three diamonds on the flop probably weren't what Sam wanted to see, he ended up victorious, and with a 400k stack to boot.

A few counts from Table Lairy:
Praz Bansi     190k
Sam Farha     400k
Thomas Wahlroos  42k
Isabelle Mercier   85k
Abraham Mosseri   115k

Abraham Mosseri -- 93,500
Thomas Wahlroos -- 39,500
David Baker -- 157,500
Isaac Haxton -- 131,500
Paul Testud -- 141,000
Carlos Mortensen -- 445,000
Eric Deregt -- 181,500
Amir Vahedi -- 208,500
Marc Goodwin -- 189,500
Gavin Griffin -- 259,000
Tim Pham -- 192,000

As long as they haven't changed this table around, I believe Don Webb has just had his Aces cracked. The enigmatic Raymond Davis was the assassin, shouting "Justice" as his A-Q hit trips.

"That's justice!" he shouted, "He called me all-in earlier with A-3, Ace Three..."

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Meanwhile, Phil Ivey has just gone with A-9 vs. 6-6. Back to the golf course courtesy of James 'Krazy Kanuck' Worth.

More counts:

Jan Sjåvik           36k
Patrik Antonius  478k
Alvin Zeidenfeld  258k
Jason Eakes        33k
Kirk Morrison      465k
David Levi         235k
George Marlow   92k
Kevin O'Connell  360k
Vinny Vinh         OUT
Simon Moussa    OUT
Justin Bonomo   350k
Freddy Deeb     190k
Humberto Brenes  128k
Scott Mayfield    OUT
Matt Leftowitz   OUT
Louis Werman     58k
Lyle Berman       80k
Erik Friberg        OUT
Jennifer Harman  110k
Mark Gregorich    145k
Jesse Martin       335k
Robert Wazelle   126k
Rob Hollink          110k
Ben Roberts        OUT  (A-K vs A-4, 4 on flop - thanks for that, Dr. Pauly...)
Phil Ivey             OUT  (A-9 vs 6-6)
Adeeb Harb        445k
Rehne Pedersen   73k
Steve Wong        590k
Franco Brunetti    270k
Quinn Do            125k

Leaders look like Sorel Mizzi and Roland de Wolfe, who both have horrific stacks to count but must be both nearing 700,000...

Thomas Wahlroos now has 108,500.

Nice comeback!

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Paul Sneed calls a short-stacked all-in with Ahrt Qs.

The all-iner has Jd 7d, which fails to improve on the 2c 9c Ks Th 4s board.

"Did I win?" asks Paul returning to the table. "I just can't watch anymore."

I nodded hesitantly, although I wasn't 100& sure and had to double check the board just in case.

Luckily, he had indeed won, but I doubt he'd been happy with my nod if the other guy had hit on the River.

Dusk Till Dawn's Kevin O'Connell has taken two hits to drop him down to 240k, one of which involved him re-raising pre-flop with Queens pushing on a 7-8-2 Flop but being outdrawn by Sixes, a cruel River card giving his opponent an undeserved set.

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The fantastically named Marcello Del Gross has just doubled up against Sam Grizzle with Ks Kh vs. Aspades Ts on a 2d 8s Qs 9d Tc board, all-in on the flop.

A few counts before the stacks get unwieldy (but look so damn good on TV)...

Paul Testud   90k  (The lasted-longer of five French entrants)
Mikael Thuritz  560k
Sam Farha      300k
Abraham Mosseri  230k
Jared Hamby    294k
Anna Wroblewski  560k
Johan Storakers   220k
Barny Boatman    250k
Mark Gregorich    300k
Jesse Martin       240k
Robert Wazelle   235k
Sorel Mizzi          700k+
Tim Phan          200k
Praz Bansi          165k  (Whispering to me the two least favourite words of the card player after 'bad beat' - 'card dead')
Humberto Brenes  56k
Roland de Wolfe   730k
Scott Fischman    625k
Steve Wong       710k

With 105 players left, the relaxed atmosphere belies the fact that we're almost at the bubble...

A reminder of the prizes:

1st   $3,970,415*
2nd  $2,011,135
3rd   $1,082,920
4th    $696,220
5th    $464,110
6th    $309,405
7th    $278,465
8th    $247,525
9th    $216,585
10th   $185,645
11th-15th   $154,705
16th-20th   $123,760
21st-30th    $92,820
31st-40th    $77,350
41st-50th    $61,880
51st-100th  $46,410

Anna Wroblewski -- 485,000
Johan Storakers-- 250,000
Abraham Mosseri -- 135,000
Phil Tom -- 150,000
Carlos Mortensen -- 645,000
Barny Boatman -- 235,000
Scott Fischman -- 670,000
Phil Hellmuth -- 1,040,000
Jared Hamby -- 225,000
Lyle Berman -- 210,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 465,000
Bill Gazes -- 335,000
Kevin O'Connell -- 215,000
Marcello Del Grosso -- 175,000
Humberto Brenes -- 512,000
Raymond Davis -- 590,000
Steve Wong -- 700,000
Tim Pham -- 185,000
David Danshegar -- 185,000
Patrik Antonius -- 605,000
Bryon Devonshire -- 412,000
Roland de Wolfe -- 880,000
Mikael Thuritz -- 680,000
Praz Bansi -- 160,000
Bob Stupak -- 185,000
Gevork Kasabyan -- 65,000
David Levi -- 435,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 975,000
Daniel Aliea -- 285,000
Sam Grizzle -- 149,000
Paul Wasicka -- 595,000
Jeff Littlefield -- 66,000
Shawn Buchannan -- 490,000
Timothy McCarthy -- 244,000
Sammy Farha -- 220,000
David Baker -- 135,000
Marc Goodwin -- 210,000

Blinds 4k/8k ante 1k     The Bubble approaches (102 players) - Hand For Hand...
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Head count....

And the reason they are doing so is that there was a double all-in last hand!  After an abysmally long time while the clock was ominously not stopped the tension felt by Robert Mizrachi, all in with his 9d 9c must have been unbearable.  He was up against 4s 6s, but all in for what looked to be about 40k.
Flop:  8s 7d Kc
Turn:  Ks
River:  2s  (You knew it was a spade from the intake of breath from all the other players at the table, and that resigned and heavy look on Mizrachi's face...)

He makes the minimum of fuss, while news of the double knockout spreads with a kind of guilty cheer through the room.  "Yay!" go a lot of the others who are guaranteed their 100th-51st £46,410, but you have to feel for the Double Bubble.

Humberto, who scraped into the money with just 10,000 (4/8k blinds remember), has just doubled up with Jd Tc vs. 8h 3d.

Board = 4c Kd Qc Js 2d

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Marc Goodwin's claim to fame is that he knocked out Mr 100, Queens v Deuces, and is now up to 300k.

Okay, looking back through the start of day table list, here are a few names that slipped under the radar:

Isabelle Mercier
Martin De Kjniff
Eric Friberg
Freddie Deeb
Amir Vahedi
Chip Reese

All out.

LOL, we need an Humberto smilie because the enigmatic Costa Rican is now on a quite remarkable 200k after doubling through with Ad Ks vs. Ac Qs, the board coming a harmless 9h 2h Ts 8h 4c.

Someone known merely as 'Inside Sweaterman' to all the players and bloggers has just exited at the hands of James Worth with 8h 6h vs. Ad 8d, 9-9-A-A-Q rainbow board.

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Good news for Pimp fans, Marc Goodwin is up to 500k after catching Sixes vs. James Worth's Fours on a 6-5-4 Flop.

Unfortunately, it wasn't a double up, because after James flat called a 36k bet from Marc on the Flop, the Turn brought a Three, which slowed them both down, although James did later say that he was looking for a check raise.

On the River, however, came an action packed Five. James bet 20k, Marc made it 90k and James called.

"I would have called an all-in," said James, whilst Marc added, "I would have bet more but I thought he had the straight and wanted a call."

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Johan Storakers is OUT.

We're down to 85. The first five went as follows:

100th = Bradley Helm
99th = Steven Mandelbaum
98th = Todd Keikoan
97th = Mark Stubbs
96th = Kevin Keller
95th = Robert Nehorayan

Near unbelievably, Humberto has a new message for you, "Now you can post Humberto has 300!"  Yes he has taken Climber of the Day to a different level - 10k to 300k in less than half an hour.

His most recent 100k or so came about like this:  He saw a flop heads up, out of position, with Raymond Davis - Qh 4d 9s.  Humberto bet out 40k.  Davis calmly doubled the bet.  80k might not be that much to one of the chip forerunners, but it put Humberto on a tough decision.  He took his time, about five minutes passing before he shoved all-in, about 70k on top of Davis' raise.  He must have liked the split-second fold of his opponent, even to that size of raise, must have been pure nothing in the button-possessor's hand.

"Not Humberto no good!" Shouted Humberto, whatever that means.

As they break yet another table (I take back all those gloomy predictions of a 15-hour Day Four) Patrik Antonius is moved to Thomas Wahlroos' table.  "The two remaining Finns at the same table..." Thomas muses, before getting involved in this hand:

Thomas raises on the button quickly when it passes to him (I am sure this is not a rare occurrence) to 14k total.  Small blind Tim Phan gets out of the way, but big blind Lyle Berman pushes all in over the top.  Thomas calls instantly, and you get the feeling that was not the idea - Lyle's Ad Th is against Finn #1's Ahrt Ks.
Flop:  2d 4s 9h
Turn:  5h
River:  3c

And as the split card comes down on the river giving them both the wheel, you'd be forgiven for thinking that Thomas had lost that hand, and that Lyle might have kicked him in the shins and slashed the tyres on his car:  "I run so goddamn bad!  Sick!"
"It's not sick, it's justice..." replies Lyle.
"Will this never end?!" He shakes his metaphorical fist at the cruel gods of fate, then turns and starts chatting to Patrik Antonius in what must be Finnish.  He probably said something like, "I run so goddamn bad!  Sick!"

Phil Tom -- 765,000
Anna Wroblewski -- 585,000
Patrik Antonius -- 355,000
Richard Anthony -- 565,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 310,000

Kevin O'Connell is still in, and cheerfully re-raising Phil Hellmuth's preflop raise as I walked past.  Phil passed, showing Kh Tc and saying, "I give it up to you.  That's the last one, you've had your allowance...I had a bad feeling about that hand.  That's the worst I raise with."  Etc. ad infinitum.  Lose the small raise quietly... ;)
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Actually, Kevin's just this second come over here, and is OUT about five minutes after this Phil push-off...  He apparently lost the biggest chunk of a medium stack raising with Ac Kc, and finding a small stack pushing in.  Call - he was up against Qd Ts.  The Queen-high all-in was walking away from the table, but spiked a Queen and a Ten to drop him down to 30k.  That went in pretty sharpish with Ad Qd, but he ran smack into Kings.  "I didn't know it was possible to win fifty grand and be so annoyed."

Incredible hand involving Jaime Ligator, Jared Hamby and Tim Phan.

Phan raises it up, Jaime calls, Jared pushes for 160k, Phan announces all-in and Jaime calls.

Tim Phan = 6s 6d

Jared Hamby = Jc Js

Jaime Ligator = Ac Ad

Flop = Kh 2s 5d

Turn = 6h

A railer celebrates on Phan's behalf and shakes his chair.

River = Jd

Jared punches the air and puts his finger to his mouth like Cantona celebrating a goal.

New chip counts:

Jaime Ligator -- 30,000
Tim Phan -- 125,000
Jared Hamby -- 365,000

Jaime Ligator is now OUT.

Moved his 30k in with Ks 8c, Jared called and Abraham Mosseri moved all-in with Aspades Ac

Board = Qd Ts 4h 7c 4c

80th = Melissa Hayden

81st = James Van Alstyne

82nd = Marcello Del Grosso

83rd = Sam Farha

84th = Lamar Wilkinson

85th = Johan Storakers

86th = David Daneshgar

87th = Kevin O'Connell

88th = John Harris

89th = Peter Rho

90th = Jason Freetag

91st = John Nathan

92nd = Robert Goldfarb

93rd = Alvin Zeidenfeld

94th = Thomas Werthmann

95th = Robert Nehorayan

96th = Kevin Keller

97th = Mark Stubbs

98th = Todd Keikoan

99th = Steven Mandelbaum

100th = Bradley Helm

And the next lot of OUTs -

73rd  Stan Fulton
74th  Bryan Devonshire
75th  Gary Haubelt
76th  Jordan Siegel
77th  Jamie Ligator
78th  Sam Grizzle
79th  Nek-Pal Singh

Thomas Wahlroos has more than doubled up to 800k.

All-in pre-flop.

Ram Vaswani (only for 80k) = 6s 6h

Mark Gregovic = Kc Kh

Thomas Wahlroos = Ks Kd

Flop = Th 6d 2d

Turn = Jd

River = Ad

Need I say more?...

Ross Boatman has doubled up to just over 300k.

All-in on a Flop of 6s 4d 5c with Kd Kc versus. Ahrt 6h

Turn = Jd

River = Jh

Eric Kesselman is OUT.

All-in pre-flop with Aspades Qs, Eric was looked up by Raymond Davis' Pocket Sevens.

Emphatic 7 on the Flop.

Board = 9d 6h Js Qd 7s

OK moving on - new hand involving players to whom I am hesitant to assign names - the redraw at 109 players messed up my carefull constructed seating identification plan.  So please refer to photos (Interactive thread) for more detail.

Matey1 (Franklin Caldwell) gets it all in preflop, called in two spots.  Mateys two and three look at the Js 3s 6d flop while as is traditional the all-in player stands up and can only watch with a sinking heart as Matey2 bets 60k into the dry side pot.  Call by Matey3.
Turn:  Qh  Matey3 checks, Matey2 bets 130k.  Call again.
River:  Tc  Whatever happened here happened very fast and while a tall person stepped in front of me, so I'll say it went check-check.  Yes, that must be the case, as Matey2 showed his 6s 6h for the flopped set, while Matey3's guardian angel must have brought his Th Ts the two outer on the river to take the whole pot, getting a bit of an earful, however, about calling so much when the side pot was empty...

Praz gives the glass-half-empty thumbs down sign, but we both gave him the half-full thumbs up as he put his 300k or so chips to use... He called Loi Phan's preflop raise to 30k from the big blind, and checked the 3s 8s 8h flop.  Phan bet 50k and Praz min-check-raised him, eventually winning a few more.  It might have been a slow day for him, but he's clearly, somehow, got the stamina for it despite having had no sleep since, presumably, pre-Manchester.

Humberto Brenes is OUT.

Didn't catch the hand, but I hear he got rivered.

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Roland de Wolfe has just eliminated WPT winner Joe Tehan...

Roland = Qc Qh

Joe = Kh 6h

Board = 2c 3h 6s 9h 5c

57 left; they redraw again at 54 for no apparent reason.

Done in half an hour.

Barny Boatman is OUT.

He raised it up with Qs Ts, but found a raise and a re-raise behind him.

With 90k in front of him and a 350k pot on offer, Barny decided to gamble.

As he expected, his cards were live as the re-re-raiser had A-K, which ultimately stood up, even though Barny flopped a cheeky flush draw.

He looked genuinely gutted, but he had a good run this year and he'll be back. Only a matter of time before he cracks a big comp.

Some chippy counts for you to feast your eyes on:

Jared Hamby -- 475,000
Daniel Alaei -- 160,000
Loi Phan -- 1,275,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 495,000
Lyle Berman -- 365,000
Praz Bansi -- 315,000
Carlos Mortensen -- 925,000
Roland de Wolfe -- 1,105,000
Paul Wasicka -- 655,000
Timothy McCarthy -- 275,000
Richard Anthony -- 705,000
David Levi -- 310,000
Bill Ferrand -- 690,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 1,175,000
Todd Rozelle -- 365,000
Abraham Mosseri -- 845,000
Marc Goodwin -- 265,000
Tim Phan -- 405,000
Shawn Buchanan -- 145,000
James Worth -- 205,000

You how all the girl swoon at the feet of Patrik Antonius? Well, they might have second thoughts now because he currently has the expression of a bulldog chewing on a wasp AND a stinging nettle after his 9h 9d was outdrawn by Ben Johnson's Kc Tc on a 3h Aspades 9c 6c board, 7c hitting the River.

Antonius down to just 42k, tournament director has requested a drug test on Johnson.

Mikael Thuritz is getting involved in quite a few hands, it looks like (he's Claus Nielsen's tip, in general)... First of all he lost a couple to Loi Phan who called his utg 30k from the big blind and called his 40k bet on the Aspades 3h 4c flop.  The Qs came on the turn, Mikael bet out 70k, but passed fairly quickly after he got check-raised a further 70k.

Then he won a few from Sorel Mizzi, who raised on the button to 26k, Michael calling in the bb.  Flop:  7h 7d 5s  Check to Sorel who bet 40k; call.
Turn:  6s  check-check
River:  2s  Mikael Thuritz bet 150k, a kind of "that's about half my stack, I am probably not folding" kind of bet, which worked, in the end.

End of day chip counts:

Fred David -- 243,000
David Oppenheim -- 424,000
Noah Jefferson -- 170,500
Mark Gregorich -- 197,000
Ben Johnson -- 626,000
Patrik Antonius -- 38,000
Guy Laliberte -- 729,000
Sorel Mizzi -- 703,000
Adeeb Harb -- 424,000
Loi Pham -- 1,401,900
Mikael Thuritz -- 333,000
Jake Minter -- 535,000
Praz Bansi -- 219,000
Kirk Morrison -- 1,312,000
Lyle Berman -- 501,000
David Baker -- 499,000
Daniel Alaei -- 278,000
Jared Hamby -- 494,000
Timothy McCarthy -- 334,000
Paul Wasicka -- 558,000
Roland de Wolfe  -- 1,287,000
Carlos Mortensen -- 939,000
Ian Johns -- 862,000
Robert Wazelle -- 815,000
Ted Kearly -- 313,000
Eric Hershler -- 651,000
Thomas Schreiber -- 453,000
Can Hua -- 1,041,000
Tim Phan -- 646,000
Abraham Mosseri -- 646,000
Doron Malinasky -- 301,000
Grant Lang -- 623,000
Phil Hellmuth -- 1,827,000
Paul J. Lee -- 540,000
Scott Fischman -- 617,000
Tom Pniak -- 778,000
Jimmy Ngoc Tran -- 550,000
Raymond Davis -- 1,704,000
Justin Bonomo -- 625,000
Antonio Salorio -- 372,000
Tommy Vu -- 333,000
Phil Tom -- 252,000
Joe Grebanier -- 88,000
Tom Lee -- 251,000
Mike Wattel -- 935,000
Thomas Wahlroos -- 1,189,000
Justin Young -- 196,000
David Levi -- 360,000
Bill Gazes -- 510,000
Marc Goodwin -- 427,000
Elia Ahmadian -- 195,000
Bill Ferran -- 633,000
James Worth -- 230,000