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WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic – Day 5 Report
Posted by: Jo Martin - Mon, 2012-12-10 05:23
Antonio Esfandiari has long made the WPT’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic his favorite roaming ground, and he’s not letting up this time around either. The
poker tournament has reached its 5th day with Esfandiari in the lead and it successfully played down to its final table, with Esfandiari still in possession of the largest stack.
The Magician ended the penultimate day of the event with 4.3 million chips to his name, almost a full million more than second place man Shawn Buchannan, who finished with a stack of 3.4 million.
Due to the pro-heavy nature of the field, those who made the home stretch of the event were almost exclusively “name” competitors. Besides Esfandiari and Buchannan, Andrew Lichtenberger, Jeremy Kottler (the chip leader of the first day) and Ravi Raghavan made the final table too.
22 players returned to the tables of the Bellagio at the beginning of the 5th day. The first player to bite the dust was Joseph Elpayaa. Eddy Sabat, Brian Rast and Jeremy Ausmus followed him to the rail.
Andrew Robl and Scott Clements didn’t fare any better either: They were both eliminated in the same hand by Jeremy Kottler, sharing 15th place. The three players got their chips into the middle before the flop. Clements had pocket 4s while Robl had pocket 8s and Kottler had an A,Ko. The flop landed an A and nothing on the turn or the river changed the situation. The pot gave Kottler the chip lead at that stage.
Greg Mueller fell in 13th place, picking up $43.9k for his efforts. He was followed to the rail by Freddy Deeb in 12th place. Yevgeniy Timoshenko was eliminated too, in 11th place.
Esfandiari got the chip lead back at about this point in the event. The final table bubble-boy was Jonathan Aguiar.
