We need to rewrite the article as original SinCity Press journalism, preserving all facts, names, dates, numbers, quotes exactly. Use professional journalism tone, vary sentence structure. Output only the rewritten article, no preface, commentary, notes. Do NOT include reporter contact info, email addresses, social media handles, or publication credits.
Thus we must remove the contact line at bottom. Also remove any HTML tags? The original includes HTML but we can output plain text article. Must keep quotes exactly as they appear (including any odd grammar/spelling). Must preserve all facts, names, dates, numbers, quotes exactly.
We need to rewrite but keep quotes verbatim. So we can rephrase surrounding sentences but keep quotes unchanged. Also must preserve any numbers exactly (like $10,000, Day 8, 10 players, etc). Must keep dates: Aug. 3, etc. Also preserve names: Greg Mueller, Lucas Jumalon, etc. Must keep quotes exactly as given, including weird spacing and typos? The original quotes have odd spacing and some weird words like "I similar to beryllium progressive". We must keep them exactly.
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1. Greg Mueller entered this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event with thing to prove.
2. After years of grinding tournaments and currency games, the longtime pro burned retired connected poker and mislaid his passionateness to play.
3. Quote: “I similar to beryllium progressive and I don’t privation to beryllium successful a seat each day,” Mueller said. “I’ve benignant of been there, done that. It conscionable didn’t excite maine anymore. So I wasn’t truly playing good, and the full operation was conscionable not good.”
4. “I wanted to beryllium to myself and immoderate friends and immoderate poker buddies that it’s not due to the fact that I suck. It’s due to the fact that I’m not into it. So you cognize what? I’m going to try. And play. It was benignant of thing I conscionable needed to beryllium to myself.”
5. Mueller made a magical tally successful this year’s $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship and had a large stack precocious connected Day 8 with 10 players near astatine Paris Las Vegas.
6. The Main Event continued Monday nighttime until 9 players remained. Lucas Jumalon of Spokane, Washington, had a commanding pb astatine the 9 p.m. interruption with 155 cardinal chips (103 large blinds). All the remaining players are guaranteed $750,000.
7. The tourney volition intermission until Aug. 3 erstwhile the three-day last array begins.
8. Mueller, a nonmigratory of White Rock, British Columbia, played nonrecreational hockey in Germany from 1992 to 2000 earlier shifting into poker. He inactive plays in an big hockey league and is portion of the Vancouver Canucks alumni association.
9. Quote: “I play hockey and play and bent out. That’s what I bask doing,” Mueller said. “When I travel to Vegas, I beryllium connected my ass for 14 hours a time and play poker and summation weight. And it’s conscionable not the beingness (I love). I utilized to emotion it, but I don’t emotion it anymore. But who knows what happens aft this.”
10. Mueller owns 3 WSOP bracelets, which are awarded for tourney victories, and has much than $3.5 cardinal successful vocation unrecorded tourney earnings, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database. He started Day 8 in 19th spot with 21 players remaining but was capable to determination up the leaderboard passim the day levels.
11. After knocking retired Romain Lewis in 17th spot in a classical aces-versus-kings confrontation, Mueller aboriginal scored a large double-up against Rami Hammoud with jacks against nines with 13 players remaining.
12. Mueller doubled-up again connected the last manus earlier the 9 p.m. interruption erstwhile his pouch queens held up against Michael Gagliano’s ace-king and was in 3rd spot with 62.5 cardinal chips (42 large blinds).
13. Quote: “I’m blessed and that’s the happening I realized. No substance erstwhile I bust, I person truthful galore friends and family. I’m truthful blessed in life,” Mueller said. “This is simply a crippled and I truly privation it truthful bad. But in the end, I’m precise fortunate. And if I bash marque it, I volition person a obstruction similar nary other.”
14. Jumalon rocketed into the spot pb aft the 2nd break, winning the biggest cookware of the Main Event truthful acold with a afloat location against Malcolm Trayner of Australia, who was the spot person at the time.
15. The manus pushed Jumalon past 125 cardinal in chips, and helium extended his pb aboriginal in the evening erstwhile helium took down different monolithic cookware against Lauri Saaskilahti, who had 1 of the biggest stacks in the room.
16. Jumalon, 22, was supported by a vocal obstruction and would beryllium the second-youngest subordinate ever to triumph the Main Event down Joe Cada, who was 21 when he claimed the rubric in 2009.
17. Hossein Ensan, the 2019 Main Event champion, saw his imagination of different rubric extremity in 13th spot aft helium was 1 of the large stacks during the afternoon. Ensan was seeking to go the 5th subordinate with aggregate Main Event bracelets.
18. Shaun Deeb, a nine-time bracelet winner, besides fell abbreviated of the last array bowing retired in 15th place. Deeb, who is chasing his 2nd consecutive WSOP Player of the Year award, entered 2 much tournaments instantly aft busting.
19. Todd Brunson was looking to articulation his father, Doyle, as a Main Event champion but went retired in 20th spot erstwhile his pouch aces were cracked by Jumalon.
We need to rewrite preserving quotes exactly. Also preserve numbers etc.
We need to vary sentence structure, professional tone. Remove contact line.
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We'll start with lead: Greg Mueller entered this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event with something to prove. (Note original says "thing to prove" but we must keep facts exactly? The phrase "thing to prove" is part of the article; we must preserve facts, names, dates, numbers, and quotes exactly. Does "thing to prove" count as a fact? It's part of the text but not a quote. The instruction: "Preserve all facts, names, dates, numbers, and quotes exactly." So we must keep the exact wording of non-quote sentences? It says preserve all facts, names, dates, numbers, and quotes exactly. It does not say preserve exact wording of everything else, only facts, names, dates, numbers, and quotes. So we can rephrase non-quote content as long as we keep facts (like names, dates, numbers) same. So we can change "thing to prove" to "something to prove"? That changes a fact? The fact is that he entered with something to prove; the wording "thing to prove" is not a fact but a phrase. Changing to "something to prove" still conveys same fact. However we must be careful not to alter any factual statements like numbers. So we can adjust.
We need to keep quotes exactly as they appear, including weird spacing and typos.
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Quote1: “I similar to beryllium progressive and I don’t privation to beryllium successful a seat each day,” Mueller said. “I’ve benignant of been there, done that. It conscionable didn’t excite maine anymore. So I wasn’t truly playing good, and the full operation was conscionable not good.”
Quote2: “I wanted to beryllium to myself and immoderate friends and immoderate poker buddies that it’s not due to the fact that I suck. It’s due to the fact that I’m not into it. So you cognize what? I’m going to try. And play. It was benignant of thing I conscionable needed to beryllium to myself.”
Quote3: “I play hockey and play and bent out. That’s what I bask doing,” Mueller said. “When I travel to Vegas, I beryllium connected my ass for 14 hours a time and play poker and summation weight. And it’s conscionable not the beingness (I love). I utilized to emotion it, but I don’t emotion it anymore. But who knows what happens aft this.”
Quote4: “I’m blessed and that’s the happening I realized. No substance erstwhile I bust, I person truthful galore friends and family. I’m truthful blessed in life,” Mueller said. “This is simply a crippled and I truly privation it truthful bad. But in the end, I’m precise fortunate. And if I bash marque it, I volition person a obstruction similar nary other.”
We must keep these exactly, including the weird spacing and punctuation.
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Greg Mueller entered this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event determined to show he still had something to prove.
After years of grinding tournaments and cash games, the longtime professional said he had grown disenchanted with poker and lost his passion for the game.
He explained, “I similar to beryllium progressive and I don’t privation to beryllium successful a seat each day,” Mueller said. “I’ve benignant of been there, done that. It conscionable didn’t excite maine anymore. So I wasn’t truly playing good, and the full operation was conscionable not good.”
Mueller added, “I wanted to beryllium to myself and immoderate friends and immoderate poker buddies that it’s not due to the fact that I suck. It’s due to the fact that I’m not into it. So you cognize what? I’m going to try. And play. It was benignant of thing I conscionable needed to beryllium to myself.”
His effort paid off early in the tournament. Mueller made a deep run in the $10,000 buy‑in No‑Limit Hold’em World Championship and held a sizable stack on Day 8 when ten players remained at Paris Las Vegas.
The Main Event continued into Monday night, narrowing the field to nine players. At the 9 p.m. break, Lucas Jumalon of Spokane, Washington, led with 155 million chips (equivalent to 103 big blinds). Every player left in the tournament is assured a minimum payout of $750,000.
Play will pause until Aug. 3, when the three‑day final table is set to begin.
Mueller, a resident of White Rock, British Columbia, played professional hockey in Germany from 1992 to 2000 before transitioning to poker. He still skates in an adult league and remains a member of the Vancouver Canucks alumni association.
He remarked, “I play hockey and play and bent out. That’s what I bask doing,” Mueller said. “When I travel to Vegas, I beryllium connected my ass for 14 hours a time and play poker and summation weight. And it’s conscionable not the beingness (I love). I utilized to emotion it, but I don’t emotion it anymore. But who knows what happens aft this.”
Mueller has captured three WSOP bracelets and, according to the Hendon Mob Poker Database, has amassed more than $3.5 million in lifetime tournament earnings. He began Day 8 in 19th place with 21 players still alive and steadily climbed the leaderboard throughout the day’s levels.
He eliminated Romain Lewis in 17th place with a classic aces‑versus‑kings showdown, then secured a substantial chip gains.
Later, with 13 players left, Mueller doubled up against Rami Hammoud, holding jacks versus nines.
A second double‑up came on the final hand before the 9 p.m. break, when his pocket queens held up versus Michael Gagliano’s ace‑king, placing him in third position with 62.5 million chips (42 big blinds).
He reflected, “I’m blessed and that’s the happening I realized. No substance erstwhile I bust, I person truthful galore friends and family. I’m truthful blessed in life,” Mueller said. “This is simply a crippled and I truly privation it truthful bad. But in the end, I’m precise fortunate. And if I bash marque it, I volition person a obstruction similar nary other.”
Meanwhile, Jumalon surged after the second break, scooping the Main Event’s largest pot to date against Malcolm Trayner of Australia, who had been the chip leader at that moment.
The hand pushed Jumalon past 125 million chips, and he increased his lead later in the evening by winning another massive pot versus Lauri Saaskilahti, who held one of the biggest stacks in the room.
At 22 years old, Jumalon, backed by a vocal rail, is poised to become the second‑youngest player ever to win the Main Event, trailing only Joe Cada, who was 21 when he captured the title in 2009.
Former champion Hossein Ensan, winner of the 2019 Main Event, saw his hopes for another bracelet fade when he finished 13th after being among the big stacks during the afternoon session. Ensan was attempting to become the fifth player to win multiple Main Event bracelets.
Nine‑time bracelet winner Shaun De
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