The GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions (GDAM) continued on Thursday and after a huge day of poker eight players had guaranteed themselves HK$6,000,000 (US$774,193) and Rono Lo had become the third largest “bubble boy” in history.
It is Sorel Mizzi who leads the GDAM final table and is therefore in the best shape to make a run at the HK$34,600,000 (US$4,464,516) first-place prize.
However, with not too many big blinds in play and tough players such as Isaac Haxton, Jeff Rossiter, Niklas Heinecker, Pratyush Buddiga and Igor Kurganov still in contention, the GDAM champion could be any of the eight remaining players.
Check out the official GDAM final table in the live reporting blog below.
Beginning at 3.00 p.m. local time, Day 2 of the GDAM Main Event saw 51 players all hoping to make it to the final table. Some of the players who weren’t able to do that include Philip Gruissem, Fabian Quoss, Joseph Cheong, John Juanda, Greg Merson, Gus Hansen, Mike McDonald and Team PokerStars Pros Bertrand Grospellier and Jonathan Duhamel.
For much of the day it was PokerStars Team Online Isaac Haxton who held the chip lead as he was eliminating players seemingly every few hands. One of the players Haxton sent to the rail was Dan Smith. It was preflop raising war that saw all the chips get in the middle, with Smith running his 
into the 
of Haxton. The board ran out 
and with that Smith was sent home and Haxton was the first player to find himself with an eight-figure chip stack.
One by one the players hit the rail and by the time ten players remained, the blinds were so large in comparison to the player’s stacks that every hand was a decision for a player’s tournament life. At this point the plan was to eliminate one more player before moving to an “unofficial” live streamed final table. Unfortunately for Nick Wong it was he who would finish as the 10th place finisher, which isn’t worth a whole lot.
Wong got all his chips in prefllop holding 
and had to come up against Aussie Jeff Rossiter’s 
. The board ran out 
and just like that Wong, who took down the GDAM Warm-Up on Tuesday, was sent home and we were on the bubble.
Only one player would feel more devastation than Wong and that was Rono Lo. Heading into the unofficial final table Lo had the second smallest stack with just over 7 million in chips. However, with the blinds at 500,000-1,000,000, Lo quickly found himself left with just over one big blind when he moved all in holding 
. It was the worst possible outcome for Lo when Pratyush Buddiga woke up with , which he promptly re-shoved from the button. The rest of the table was out of the way and the 
board meant that the GDAM final table was set. Check out the payout structure below to refresh yourselves with what the remaining eight are playing for.
GDAM Final Table Payouts
| Place | Prize (HKD) | Prize (USD) |
|---|
| 1 | $34,600,000 | $4,464,516 |
| 2 | $24,500,000 | $3,161,290 |
| 3 | $16,100,000 | $2,077,419 |
| 4 | $12,525,000 | $1,616,129 |
| 5 | $10,200,000 | $1,316,129 |
| 6 | $8,300,000 | $1,070,967 |
| 7 | $7,150,000 | $922,580 |
| 8 | $6,000,000 | $774,193 |
The final table will take place at 3.00 p.m. local time (12.00 a.m. PDT) tomorrow and the PokerNews Live Reporting Team will once again be at the felt bringing you all the action, while the final table will also feature a live stream. Join us then!
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