David Steicke Eliminated in 5th Place ($89,743)

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David Steicke has gone from first to out in dizzying fashion. Nam Le raised to 17,000. Steicke reraised to 51,000 from the button, folding both blinds. Le tanked for two minutes before reraising Steicke to 141,000. Steicke quickly pushed all in and Le snap-called.

Steicke: {10-Spades}

Le:

This appeared to be a strategic miscalculation by Steicke, who found himself as the all-in player and thoroughly dominated by Le's pocket kings. The flop brought a fair bit of drama and a gasp of anticipation from the crowd when it came {J-Diamonds}

. Any seven, any queen, or any ten would give Steicke the pot. The turn was a blank, the {8-Hearts}

, no help to Steicke. The river {4-Diamonds}

eliminated him from the tournament.

"What did you eat for dinner?" Charles Chua asked Nam Le, who was the shortest stack at the dinner break and is now in first chip position. "It must have been very good. I had Japanese."

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