We noticed Dan Shak was no longer in his seat, and a quick check with officials revealed that he had been eliminated. We missed the details, but b\Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst did the deed as she and is now sitting with a massive stack of approximately 550,000. She took to Twitter to tell how it happened:
A preflop raising saw PCA champ Dimitar Danchev get his stack of 71,800 all in preflop against EPT London champ Robin Ylitalo.
Ylitalo:
Danchev:
Danchev immediately regretted his shove, but his verbal frustrations ceased when the flop delivered him the lead with middle set.
Neither the turn nor river changed a thing, and Danchev doubled through Ylitalo, who was left with just 500 chips and eliminated in the very next hand.
If you've been paying attention to Twitter, you may have noticed some debate between high roller regular Dan Shak and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst (with a little EPT champ David Vamplew sprinkled in). The point of contention seems to be a post we made in our blog yesterday, which you can read here.
Here are some of the Tweets between the parties involved: