Second Break on Day 7: Newhouse Takes Chip Lead; Timoshenko Exits

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Level 31 : 80,000/160,000, 20,000 ante

The second break of Day 7 has arrived, and we're down to the last 21 players in the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event. There's a new player sitting atop the leader board after Anton Morgenstern lost two massive hands to Mark Newhouse at the ESPN feature table. Newhouse is the new man to catch with approximately 22 million in chips at the break.

First, Morgenstern lost a huge flip to Newhouse when his ace-queen clipped the German's pocket eights. A short while later, Newhouse flopped a full house against Morgenstern's trip aces and doubled up when Morgenstern called his shove on the river. Morgenstern began Level 31 with nearly 30 million in chips, and he'll enter Level 32 with about 5 million.

Day 1b chip leader Clement Tripodi's run ended in 23rd place early in Level 31. Tripodi three-bet shoved from the hijack seat with ace-queen and Bruno Kawauti called with pocket kings. The board ran dry for the Frenchman, who collected $285,408 for his deep finish.

Yevgeniy Timoshenko, arguably the most talented no-limit hold'em player remaining when Day 7 began, got his short stack in the middle during the past level and wasn't able to survive. He moved all in preflop with ace-eight and finished second best to Jan Nakladal's ace-jack.

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