Lakhitov Vying for Chip Lead
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Mikhail Lakhitov started the day with about 56,000 chips, a roughly average stack. He's way above average after eliminating Avery Cardoza. Cardoza, with 
, moved all in for about 40,000 on a flop of 
. He had a pair and the nut flush draw, but Lakhitov had two blockers to that draw, having flopped the second-nut flush with 
. The board blanked out, sending Cardoza to the rail and sending Lakhitov to the top of the counts with 250,000.