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Team Bodog poker player Alper Sar finished 85th at the 2009 WSOP Main Event. (Bodog Beat Image)

The amazing run of Team Bodog player Alper Sar in the 2009 WSOP Main Event has come to an end. The Turkish investment banker finished in 85th and walked away with $57,991 for this impressive performance.

Sar flew to Vegas in time to play in Day 1C of the Main Event and 6,409 players later, on Day 6 of the tournament and eight days after first sitting down to play poker, his run came to an end. This is the PokerNews account on how that came about:

Alper Sar was all in preflop holding pocket tens against Ben Lamb's {K-Diamonds} {K-Clubs}. Sar was all in for 550,000.

The board ran out {9-Hearts} {8-Hearts} {2-Spades} {Q-Clubs} {3-Diamonds} and Sar was eliminated from the tournament.

Congratulations to Sar and all Team Bodog members, quite an impressive performance and we're sure we'll see you on the European Poker Tour soon.

As of time of publish, there is one hour left in the last level and still 70 players remaining. There will be anew champion this year as 2008 WSOP champion Peter Eastgate has busted out. He is joined by Joe Hachem, David Benyamine and Nichoel Peppe, leaving Leo Margets as the last woman standing.

Stay tuned for more 2009 WSOP Main Event live updates.