Two players were eliminated Saturday after more than three hours of no-limit Texas Hold ‘em at the World Series of Poker, increasing guaranteed paydays for the seven players left in the tournament.Canadian poker player Matthew Jarvis came one card from doubling his stack through Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi but was eliminated in eighth place.
Cuong “Soi” Nguyen, the oldest finalist at 37 and the table’s only amateur, was the first eliminated after gambling with an ace-king combination just before minimum bets were set to rise. He lost against Jason Senti’s pocket queens.
Senti was nearly eliminated just before players took their second break of the day, but consecutive diamonds gave him a flush and brought the players far closer in chips than at the start of play.
“It’s good and bad,” Mizrachi told Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, after Matusow pointed out that Senti’s rivered flush was worth more than $400,000 – the difference between seventh and sixth place.
After 90 hands and more than four hours on the felt, Mizrachi had a chip lead with about 53 million chips, just ahead of 23-year-old Jonathan Duhamel who started the day with a dominant lead over the rest of the field with 24-year-old John Dolan.
The chips don’t have any monetary value, but are required to remain in the running for the $8.94 million top prize. Each player needs to lose all his chips to be eliminated from the tournament that started with 7,319 entrants paying $10,000 each to buy in.
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