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Fresh off of a 16th position finish at last week's Los Angeles Poker Classic $10,000 Main Event, the Iceman looked up on to ballast the gamesmanship at Monday's eventual table of the WPT's Celebrity Invitational as the effervescence approached on Sunday.

Then trousseau got real.

With nine players overplus, "Walker, Texas Ranger" protean actor Nick Gonzalez called Monroe's all-in prehension K-Q to the Iceman's A-K.

Everything looked cool for a nice departure-up. Then the flop came and touched the Iceman's dreams away.

King, full house, nine, it came, facile Gonzalez the best hand. The turn was an team and the stream a nine and the Iceman was eliminated, imperfect just two spots from the rake-off and a $5k warranteed
prize.

The Iceman was crushed, as were the WPT staffers and tied media who could only expect of a TV round table featuring the blinged-out ditto machine. It was not to be.

Compounding the stem, a few scholium later, Poker Road Radio's Ali Nejad went insolvent on the percentage bubble, his A-10 crack to further against Tom Hall's pool fives.

Compounding the pangs was the education - in retrospect - that Gonzalez had ere thrown away two tens in the hand.

"I was in conclave there assumption, 'I know it's castigate to call, but I f***ing don't want to seventhbok," Nejad said after a time.

After Monroe, Nejad was the step most unrestrained personality in the room, and his destroying seventhboking deprives tomorrow's oppositeness of some much-needed dint.

Thankfully, Freddy Deeb is secluded around.

The pushy Deeb weathered accessory chaotic day of play on Sunday, outlasting such bespangled rivals as Chris "Jesus" Ferguson, Marlon Wayans, Benji Madden and Mekhi Phifer.

Phifer, whose The Vine Group fancy banked about $80k from this conjuncture to boost their goal of end to tutor underprivileged little ones in Africa, departed a rending 13th arterial highway when his A-4 lost to Scott Clements' K-5.

A unsatisfactory finish, surmise, but ineluctably an portentous weekend for Phifer, a rank and file at the Invitational who told PokerListings TV he'll occasion The Vine Group back next year as long as Steve Lipscomb allows it.

Clements, for a time, outlasted both Monroe and Nejad to earn a seat at the unanswerable table, as did Gonzalez, an avid poker character actor who enters Monday's gestures as the sole-surviving VIP.

Rounding out the corrival are Jose Tavares, Ottavio Tassone and chipleader Tom Hall.

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