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Day 4 of Play May 27, 2004, 12:00 pm PST, Las Vegas Oh, the heart ache of seeing a dream burst...close enough to taste the final table! The effort to remain was tremendous, but the odds were stacked against The Stack from the get go!
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One hour and 50 minutes into Round 18....The blinds are significant and rising...a move was a necessity! It came...
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| That's All Folks....Out kicked on the
final hand...He's coming home with $30,000, 68th place (out of 2576), and
one year to prepare for next time! Yes, there will definitely be a next
time!
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| At this level of play, every hand that
goes all-in is filmed by ESPN, has the hand called out live by Matt Savage
(the Tournament Director), and if the all-in fails to catch the cards, the
player gets announced as a "winner" and the crowd applauds their
fine performance as they leave the tournament area...Of course, the
'winner' that is leaving does not see himself as a winner...milliseconds
after the river card, they are already re-playing the hand through their
mind...
When you leave the tournament area, you go immediately to this little table and collect your prize - in chips..
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| MZ immediately changed the chips to cash,
went to the bank down the block, and had the $30,000 wired back home...
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| And so ends the journey.....Re-live it all this summer on ESPN and come back next year! |
