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Final table, 9 players all looking to win the Big One. Loose player one, with the shortest? stack of around $2M, opens to $400K (there is reportedly $250K in the pot, so this might have been about a 3BB raise)
on an early hand, if not the first hand, of the final table of the ME. I think this is an important point, but that would depend on the players involved.
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Actually it was the second hand. The first hand, Kondracki raised all-in and everyone folded to him.
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In this hand, Matusow was the button. Dannenman was UTG. Lazar was UTG+1.
At the start of the hand, Dannennmann had T5.44M, Lazar had T3.35M, Matusow had T7.34M. Blinds were 50k/100k with 10k ante.