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Published Saturday, July 16, 2005 by seanlmccarthy | E-mail this post

WSOP POSTSCRIPT: Bernard Lee of Wayland could relax yesterday in Las Vegas, "just reflecting on a great week'' that saw the 35-year-old parlay a free pass from PokerStars.com into $400,000 in the main event of the World Series of Poker.
Lee placed 13th among the record 5,619 players who entered the tournament July 7. The $7.5 million grand prize was expected to be awarded to the final gambler holding chips early this morning at Binion's Gambling Hall & Hotel.
Lee, 35, came just a few chips shy of reaching the final table of nine players, which would have guaranteed him at least $1 million. But his pair of kings did not hold up when chip leader Aaron Kanter picked up a third six on the river, or final card, in the Texas Hold'em contest.
"I'm at peace with myself because I did the right thing,'' Lee said yesterday, hours after his bad beat. "The only way to win it was to get to the next day, and you needed chips to do that.''

Read the rest of the story: Local ace holds his own with poker studs (Boston Herald)