It was a sunny Sunday morning in Las Vegas and mostly everyone was sleeping. The Bellagio was unusually quiet as I walked inside after dropping off my rental at the valet. The chip counts at the start of the final table is as follows.WPT Championship Day 6: Does Cinderella Wear Dolce?

' Let's hope this birthday will be a happy one for Antonio. The board changed nothing and as he raked in the nice double up, Esfandiari announced: 'You guys should know that it is my birthday tomorrow. With the event down to its final eight players, Esfandiari had to commit all his chips against Andrew Robl, but was well ahead with against. That began a downward swing as he also doubled up Amit Makhija not long after that to drop to just 800k chips.

Halfway through the countdown, she called and showd, Esfandiari mucked and Rousso jumped from her seat and said: 'Oh my God, that was the hardest thing ever.'Īfter that hand, Esfandiari finally lost the chip lead that he had held on to for the better part of three days as he lost half of his stack to Rousso in that one hand. Rousso tried to talk Esfandiari into giving off a tell, but decided that she was taking too long, and called the clock on herself. is dealt on the river, Esfandiari thinks about it and goes all in. Turn is Esfandiari bets 260k, Rousso tanks before calling. The flop came, Esfandiari bet 111k, Rousso called and Mohajeri folds. The hand began with Esfandiari raising to 53k (10k/20k blinds, 3k ante) from under-the-gun, Rousso called from the cut-off and Kia Mohajeri called from the big blind. Andrew 'Luck圜hewy' Lichtenberger and Sorel Mizzi both just missed out, as they busted out in 8th ($67,570) and 9th place ($59,123) respectively.Īfter the hand that arguably launched Rousso back into serious contention, she tweeted: 'Best call o my life to double through Antonio.

While Esfandiari actually lost chips on Day 5 and slid down the leaderboard to fifth place, Vanessa Rousso (pictured right) took control and finished the day with about a third of all the chips in play.Ī total of nine players were eliminated on Day 5 and we are now down to the final table of six. Antonio Esfandiari finally let go of the iron grip that he had on the chip lead in the World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic since Day 2.

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