Catching the action on fifth street, James Van Alstyne was leading the betting with Gavin Smith calling him down. On the river, Smith led out and Van Alstyne made a reluctant call.
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Van Alstyne: (X-X-X)
Smith made his flush on the river and collected a nice pot. He's now back in contention with 270,000 chips.
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Matt Hawrilenko commented on the hand he just busted Bill Blanda by saying, "I think I lost some street cred on that one, limp raising with a queen in the hole." The table laughed and Chris Amaral commented about the play.
Hawrilenko then looked at Amaral and said, "You know, I hated you all day yesterday. But then I saw the way your girlfriend looked at you and I said to myself, 'If she can look at him like that, I can't really hate him.' Then, I started to like you."
The table laughed at the comment, including the rail and Amaral's girlfriend.
Matt Hawrilenko took his board of (X-X) up against Bill Blanda's (X-X) after betting out the other player in the hand. Blanda had been all in since third street. The players then revealed their cards and the hands were run out.
Hawrilenko: ()
Blanda: ()
Blanda was eliminated on the hand and said afterwards, "I saw ace little in the hole with all that money out there and I needed chips and there was a door with a sign that said 'Gambling Inside', so I opened the door and went for it."
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Aaron Steury - 14th Place
Aaron Steury was very short and was unable to find a double up as he was recently eliminated in a 14th place. He heads to the cashier to collect $14,209 in prize money.
Gavin Smith has just taken down a nice Razz pot to get his stack moving back in the right direction.
Frank Cremen was the bring-in and Smith completed. Zac Fellows raised and Smith made the call. Fellows then caught bricks and eventually gave it up on sixth street.
Chris Amaral was very keen to get the following hand into the blog after he took a pot away from James Van Alstyne in a recent Omaha-8 hand.
After Van Alstyne fired on the flop, Amaral put in a check-raise on a board of . Van Alstyne sighed and said "I wish I had it but I don't" and flashed the before mucking.
Amaral flipped to take it down.
"That's a big pot for me," exclaimed the energetic Amaral, "That's the difference between 140 and 340!"
Adam Heller was all in preflop against Matt Hawrilenko. Heller held against Hawrilenko's . The flop came down and Chris Amaral chimed in, "I think he's ahead now." pertaining to Hawrilenko.
Heller asked him to simply be quiet as the turn came the and then the river the . Heller stayed for a brief moment in his seat while he told Amaral he was being rude and that he shouldn't have commented. Amaral just recently got mad at a player for commenting on a hand he was involved in.
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Chau Giang - 16th Place
As the players were moving for the redraw for the final two tables, we lost Chau Giang from the tournament. Our details are sketchy but we've been told it was during a hand of Stud-8 with Giang showing a pair of threes on board but was unable to better the straight of his opponent.
Giang adds another WSOP cash to his impressive tournament record with a 16th place finish for $11,477.
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and Chris Amaral chimed in, "I think he's ahead now." pertaining to Hawrilenko.
