WSOP Day 7 Main Event Thread

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Mark Garner Eliminated 25th ($494,797)
Mark Garner raises $200,000 before the flop in early position only to be re-raised all-in by Dustin Holmes out of the big blind. Holmes has Garner covered, and Garner makes the call flipping over 5heart5club. Holmes shows AdiamondAclub, and the board comes Kspade7heart6spadeQclub4spade, no help to either player. Garner is eliminated in 25th place and will receive $494,797. After this hand, Dustin Holmes now has $1,845,000.

edit: i was wondering why the short stack raised to 200k from EP with only 650k left. then i checked pokerstarsblog and everything makes sense
Dustin Holmes raises, Mark Garner, qualifier from Little Rock, Arkansas moves all in, Holmes calls with pocket aces. Garner has pocket fives. The board ran out K67Q4. Garner is out in 25th place.

[damaniac]

What are the blinds/antes at right now?

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25k/50k a5k

[Jourdain]

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What are the blinds/antes at right now?

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ROUND: 27 BLINDS: 25000/50000 ANTE: 5000

[aeest400]

Agreed that it wouldn't be a great "everyman" story, but at this point poker could use a serious image booste given the recent House bill. Thus, it would be nice if a "model citizen" won it and all the networks covered the charity angle. (Even though I'm not normally a fan of douchy billionaires).

[Jeremy517]

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EDIT: TWO bustouts in 20 minutes??? I feel like we're watching the Stars Sunday Million.

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They were short stacks, with Ms around 5. What did you expect them to do?

[Dynasty]

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I think only 1 left with under 1m left.

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It's actually 2.

21. Fred Goldberg 1,611,000

22. Luke Chung 1,100,000

23. Sirous Jamshidi 940,000

24. Paul Wasicka 700,000

[Matt Flynn]

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if you take all those chip counts and add them up, you get 88,226,000 chips. if 8,773 players started, then we should have 87,730,000 in play. how did we get an extra 496,000 chips in play?!

racing off chips really add that much? that's some serious chip dumping from other tournaments, no?!

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All the chips going all in so much produces tremendous heat from all the friction bewtween them and the felt (on the order of 2.5 donks^chips/erg). Energy = heat and, as evident from relativity, mass and energy are one and this energy is converted to mass and then converted to chips.

Its the fundamental law of thermodonkanamics.

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Excellent.

[Dynasty]

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Its the fundamental law of thermodonkanamics.

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Excellent.

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I think it's time to retire the term donkey in all its forms.

[Solitare]

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Some millionaire/billionaire guy winning it all would not be "good" for poker (as far as quality of games/bringing in new players). It would be a good PR boost for poker's image, with the charity aspect and all.

But thew hole "everyday joe wins millions in poker tourney" captures the publics imagination more than "random billionaire wins WSOP"

If you heard Bill Gates won for example alot of people would be liek "BS" etc.

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Poker has plenty of players. Right now, I think poker needs good PR more than additional players, considering the legislative environment.

What I would like to see is the best spokesman possible for poker. Someone who would represent a good face for poker and actively promote the virtues of poker to the public, media, elected representatives, etc.

I don't know if Einhorn is that guy. But playing the tournament for charity shows his heart is in a good place. Having the connections to bring MJF to watch the final table shows that he is PR savvy. He's a successful businessman, not some online poker kid.

It's possible that he could be very good for poker.