Filippo Candio is currently sitting in second place as the field shrinks to 50 and below. Candio has had a dramatic run thus far through the WSOP Main Event. Probably the most drama-filled moment for the Italian came late last night -- a "coin flip" hand in which Candio came out on the right side.
Nearly even in chips, Candio and Manuel Davidian commenced a preflop raising war which saw Candio all in with against Davidian's pocket tens. A king flopped, and Candio's hand held, moving him up over 5 million.
He's nearly doubled that stack today, putting him only behind William Thorson at the moment.
Candio has a number of previous tourney cashes in Italy, but only one WSOP cash prior to this event, a modest score in Event #11 this summer, a $1,500 no-limit hold'em event. No matter how deep he goes in this one, he's adding significantly to his overall career tourney winnings.
Redmond Lee raised from under the gun to 225,000. Jakob Toestesen flatted from the small blind and the flop came down . Toestesen checked and Lee fired 275,000. Toestesen check-raised to 800,000 and Lee shoved. Toestesen snapped.
Both players held big slick, but each had a freeroll to backdoor flushes. Toestesen held the and Lee the .
The turn took away any chance of a sweat with the and the river completed the board with the . The two players chopped up the pot.
Robert Pisano made it 190,000 to play from the hijack position and Matthew Berkey made the call out of the small blind.
They took a flop of and Berkey checked it over to Pisano who made it 320,000 to go. Berkey replied with a check-raise to 850,000 with Pisano making the call.
The was checked through, as was the river as the players were happy to get to showdown. Berkey opened for a rivered pair of aces which was good to take it down. He's up to 4.15 million with Pisano down to 3.3 million.
Matthew Bucaric raised to 200,000 from the cutoff seat, and Edward Ochana called on the button. In the small blind, Adam Levy squeezed all in for 1.885 million total. Bucaric made the call with his big stack, and that got Ochana out and put "Roothlus" heads up for his tournametn life. And racing:
Bucaric:
Levy:
Help came quickly for the at-risk Levy as the flop came . The turn kept him in front, and the river cued his double up. Not that he was out of it before, but now he's right back in the game with over four million chips.
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The two men in question; Tony Dunst and William Thorson
William Thorson opened to 200,000 from under the gun only to have Tony Dunst pull back his big blind and announce a raise of, "one mirrion" in his best Jerry Yang-esque impression.
Thorson put Dunst all in for his last 75,000 and "Bond18" made the call for his tournament life.
Dunst:
Thorson:
The flop wasn't the best one that Dunst could have seen, but the on the turn gave him additional outs to chop to go along with his queen to scoop the pot.
Unfortunately for one of the best dressed men in poker, he saw the delivered on the river to end his tournament in 50th place as Thorson climbs to 12,980,000 in chips.
James Manning has been eliminated after he failed to win his final coin flip of the 2010 WSOP. Manning got his ~700,000 remaining chips in with , racing for the double up against Sergey Rybachenko's .
The board was as dry as the Las Vegas desert, coming . Rybachenko's sevens hold, and he has eliminated James Manning from the field.
against Davidian's pocket tens. A king flopped, and Candio's hand held, moving him up over 5 million.
. Toestesen checked and Lee fired 275,000. Toestesen check-raised to 800,000 and Lee shoved. Toestesen snapped.
and Lee the 
and the river completed the board with the 
. The two players chopped up the pot.![[user67765]](/img/avatars/avatar.svg){kind=avatar}
and Berkey checked it over to Pisano who made it 320,000 to go. Berkey replied with a check-raise to 850,000 with Pisano making the call.
was checked through, as was the 
river as the players were happy to get to showdown. Berkey opened 
for a rivered pair of aces which was good to take it down. He's up to 4.15 million with Pisano down to 3.3 million.
. The 
turn kept him in front, and the 
river cued his double up. Not that he was out of it before, but now he's right back in the game with over four million chips.
, racing for the double up against Sergey Rybachenko's 
on the turn.