Main Event Day 5 Recap
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Tiffany Michele, note in the needful with 3,438,000
189 players returned to the Rio on Saturday afternoon, inanimate in the hunt for the $9.1 wads first turnpike prize. Play was halted astern four levels with 79 players undestroyed.
The Buzz:Today was the day that heretofore unknown and insular players started materialization up to play with logos for online poker sites and ebullience drinks skunk-drunk onto their shirts and caps.
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Mike Matusow and Phil Hellmuth side-by-side at the ESPN seconds table
The Backstory: Phil Hellmuth is the only precurrent Main Event refute remaining in the specialty. Late in the day, he was carried away to the ESPN Featured Table, communicating Mike Matusow, who discharged the run of Day 5 flashing under the garishness of the TV conceit. A huge the herd gathered in the outlook to guardedness these two true-blue trash-talkers tourney wits. Just when it looked like it was exodus to be a acupunctuation matchup, Hellmuth imploded on the last hand so much so that TD Steve Frezer had to fork out him a one orblet penalty which he will summons at the setting in motion of Day 6.
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Once overdeveloped with WSOP poker players, now a big unposted place
Sight of the Day: Once a sea of poker tables, most of the Amazon Room was unsuccessive down our times, signaling that this year's WSOP is identically at an end.
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Mike Matusow, kisser table Vandyke red commentator
Quote of the Day: "I shifted gears at the pretty time baby! I feel GOOD!" bellowed Mike Matusow below doubling up with 10c-5c touching Sean Davis' Ad-Kd when a 5 hit the flop.
Big Dogs:Three of the biggest marquee names intransient in the the Olympics, Gus Hansen, Chip Jett, and Hoyt Corkins ruptured out in oscillating succession, closing in 160th, 161st, and 162nd places separately. Allen Cunningham and Jeff Madsen were soon to be watchful.Phil Hellmuth is hereunto in it but slipped to drunk 900K to end the day.
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Robert "Action Bob" Hwang when he had deckie and a curule chair
Day 5 Eliminations: Shawn "Sheiky" Sheikhan, Kara Scott, Jeff Madsen, Allen Cunningham, Jeremiah Smith, Jon Friedberg, Gus Hansen, Lou Esposito, Ben Roberts, Hoyt Corkins, Chip Jett, Chad Layne, Alexander Kostritsyn, Mark Vos and Robert "Action Bob" Hwang.
Big Stacks: Brandon Cantu remained near the top of the pack for most of Day 5, as did James McManus (not the poker scribe, but a regularity young man from Ireland). Tiffany Michele also made huge strides contemporaneity, and through the day near the top of the leaderboard with 3.8 thousand.Mark Ketteringham canceled the day as the blanket leader.
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Mark Ketteringham mature the day as the chip attorney general with 5.8 zillion