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Darren Grant
Darren Grant limped from under the gun, Peter Eastgate did as well behind him, then Felix Osterland raised to 50,000. It folded back around, Grant called, and Eastgate got out of the way.
The flop came . Both checked. The turn was the . Both checked again.
The river was the . Grant bet 125,000 and Osterland made the call.
Osterland showed , but Grant had for the rivered flush. Grant is at 920,000, while Osterland still has 1.52 million.
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Justin St. John
There was already 130,000 in the pot prior to the flop and Justin St. John moved all in for his last 247,000 from the small blind. Chris Crilly called and it turned out that his still held the lead against Crilly's . The on the turn gave St. John a few more outs as a king on the river would've counterfeited Crilly's pair, but the fell on the river that brought an ended to Pittsburgher Justin St. John's Main Event run.
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Jeremiah Smith - Eliminated.
Jeremiah Smith has been eliminated from the Main Event. After Geert Jans opened the pot for 40,000, Smith moved his whole stack of 168,000 in from the small blind. Jans made the call with and found out he was up against Smith's . Jans outflopped Smith, , to make two pair. Smith still had his set draw and a gutshot straight draw, but the turn took away the straight draw. It hit on the river anyway when the river came . Smith's Broadway straight wasn't as good as the queens full of aces held by Jans.
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The European Poker Tour's Kara Scott
Only five women remain out of the 146 players still in the Main Event.
Tiffany Michelle 1,700,000
Minna Ritakorpi 570,000
Lisa Parsons 530,000
Kara Scott 345,000
Karen Manfrede 155,000
The ladies' chipleader is none other than PokerNews' own Tiffany Michelle. She's been playing on the secondary feature table since the start of play today, while over on the ESPN TV feature table, EPT hostess Kara Scott is getting some on-camera face time of a different sort.
Our other three remaining ladies are all out in the main tournament area, all sporting freshly applied logo patches from various online sites.
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Jon Friedberg - Eliminated
Keith Hawkins raised to 32,000 from under the gun and action folded around to Jon Friedberg in middle position and he pushed all in for 171,000 total. When it was back on Hawkins, he tanked for quite a while before finally calling. The players showed:
Hawkins:
Friedberg:
The best hand held up for Hawkins as the board ran out . Friedberg was eliminated and Hawkins climbed to just over 1,000,000.
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James McManus is the current leader.
When all the dust had settled on the preflop action, Garth Paul's whole stack of 350,000 was in the middle against 350,000 of James McManus' chips. McManus had the best hand with , but he was racing against Paul's . Both players hit the flop. The turn gave Paul a flush draw to go along with his gutshot straight draw against McManus' set, but the river blanked out the . Paul was eliminated on the hand.
McManus is our presumptive chip leader at this time, with approximately 3.4 million in chips.
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The action was folded around to Greg Debora in the small blind and when he raised to 40,000 Patrick Zamarian moved all in for 165,000. Debora obliged him with a call and his were live against Zamarian's . Debora paired his ten on the flop and when the turn brought the and the river the Debora pushed his stack up to 455,000 and Zamarian was eliminated.
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Jeremiah Smith, on a downward trend all afternoon, was down to his last 47,000 chips. He put them in the middle with . Action folded to Thomas "Thunder" Keller in the big blind. He didn't want to call, but with 12,000 chips already out there, he made a reluctant call and tabled . The board ran out to make trip kings for Smith and double him up to about 100,000.
"It's been a rough day," said Smith after dragging the pot. A player at the table told him he was back in it. Smith replied that he wouldn't feel like he was back in it until he doubled at least two more times.
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Mike Matusow on Day 4
In the first limped pot of the day Daniel Buzgon limped from early position and Chino Rheem limped along. The action was then with Mike Matusow, who raised it up an additional 100,000. Both opponents thought for a moment before folding their hands.
Matusow flashed pocket queens to further emphasize his tight image as he now sits with around 700,000 chips.
. Both checked. The turn was the 
. Both checked again. 
. Grant bet 125,000 and Osterland made the call. 
, but Grant had 
for the rivered flush. Grant is at 920,000, while Osterland still has 1.52 million.
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flop and Justin St. John moved all in for his last 247,000 from the small blind. Chris Crilly called and it turned out that his 
. The 
on the turn gave St. John a few more outs as a king on the river would've counterfeited Crilly's pair, but the 
fell on the river that brought an ended to Pittsburgher Justin St. John's Main Event run.
and found out he was up against Smith's 
, to make two pair. Smith still had his set draw and a gutshot straight draw, but the 
couldn't catch up to Podell's 
couldn't outrun Hwang's pocket nines. Hwang is up to 1.1 million.
against Aditya Agarwal's 
, but he was racing against Paul's 
gave Paul a flush draw to go along with his gutshot straight draw against McManus' set, but the river blanked out the 
. Paul was eliminated on the hand.
were live against Zamarian's 
flop and when the turn brought the 
and the river the 
. The board ran out 
