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Esfandiari out, Maimone lucky

By Andrew Feldman

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

5:50 p.m. ET: Antonio Esfandiari was wearing Doyle's Room branding -- for which one of the agents reported that The Magician got "a good deal" -- but he couldn't pull off the biggest trick of them all and make it to the November Nine. Holding pocket fives, Esfandiari was eliminated by Steve Begleiter's K-10 after all the chips went in on a 10-high flop. Begleiter chipped up to more than $15 million that level, but he still trails chip leader Billy Kopp, who is at $21.2 million. Phil Ivey's chip ...

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