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Tuesday 18th December 2007 Final Table Set for WPT Doyle Brunson Classic
Eighteen players returned for Day 5 at the Bellagio, and eyes were fixed on the overnight chip leader Daniel Negreanu. The Canadian is the doyen of the WPT and popular with the rail. However yesterday was a day ‘Kid Poker’ will want to forget when, five hands into the day, he undid his good work from earlier in the tournament.
The hand began with Peter Jetten moving all in for a total of 252,000 and Ryan Daut reraising to 500,000. Negreanu then moved all in himself, hoping to isolate Jetten, but there was little chance of moving Daut off his pocket Aces. The timing couldn’t have been worse for Negreanu, and his pocket Kings were now drawing to the case king after Jetten showed KJo. The board offered no help to either Negreanu or Jetten, and Daut more than doubled up to take the chip lead.
Negreanu’s tournament came to an end when down to the last fourteen. He had worked the short stack well enough to be keeping ahead of the blinds, but he found himself committed to a pot which saw him flop top pair and a flush draw against his opponent’s two pair. There was no help this time for Daniel, leaving the rail disappointed to see one of their favourites fail to live up to the promise.
The fans now will be behind David ‘Devilfish’ Ulliott now, who made the final table with 1.9 million chips. The new chip leader is Eugene Katchalov on 8.36 million, and they are joined by four others all hoping to become the Five Diamond Classic Champion and win the first-place prize of $2,482,605.
Source: OnlineCasinoNews
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