What did we say two hours ago? It works every time but the last, and the sixth time was not the charm for Mindy Trinidad, as she chose to push with under the gun, and was called by Randi Calabro with . The flop brought some help for Mindy, but the turn and river brought no further help, and "All In Mindy" was all out. Mindy spoke more than anyone at the final table, so now we have a tight AND quiet final table to look forward to. Mindy won $28,086 for her pushing.
Katja Thater moves all in, and no one calls. At this point, with 90,000 in the middle, and the average stack being a little under 400,000 -- those blinds and antes are like gold.
After seeing a flop blind on blind, Sally Boyer leads at the pot after making third pair with on a flop of . Frauke puts the rest of her small stack in with an open-ended straight draw, and Sally makes the call. The turn leaves Frauke with eight outs, and when the hits on the river, Frauke jumps up and down over and over with glee at hitting her card. When things calm down, Frauke has doubled through the chip leader, but is still short.
Frauke Ritter Von Sporschill, as nice as she is -- I'm not going to lie to you, I'm happy I don't have to write that name again tonight -- is out in sixth place. Frauke moved in with , and got picked off by Anne Heft, who woke up with . No ace, no draws, and no help came for Frauke, who came all the way from Germany just to play in this tournament, was out in sixth place. Frauke can fly back to Germany and tell her friends that she was the chip leader entering the final table at the women's event of the WSOP, and then buy them many Steins of beer with the $37,448 she won for sixth place.
Katja Thater got a bit unlucky when her ran into Anne Heft's . The flop brought Katja some outs for a chop when it came . The turn, , didn't help but did bring more outs for a chop -- but alas it was not meant to be as the river was the . Katja was by far the most agressive and skilled of the final table participants, but ultimately...just couldn't fade the cards. Katja Thater -- fifth place -- $49,151. We will see more of Katja down the road.
Usually, after dinner break play slows down a bit as everyone is in a food coma. We apologize for the lack of chip counts, but literally the last three bustouts have occurred before the winning player can even stack the chips from the prior bustout. Sally Anne Boyer moved in with , and ran into Kathleen Gliva, who called for all her chips with . The board came jack high with only one club, and after losing one player in four hours, we lost our third player in five hands. Kathleen Gliva, fourth place -- $70,216
Randi Calabro, who admitted in her post-match interview that she was fired from her job for not showing up to work today, now has $106,177 to buy groceries and pay the rent. In a blind-on-blind confrontation, Sally Anne Boyer moved all in from the small blind with , and Randi Calabro insta-called when she looked down at . The flop decided it all when it came and Randi was out of a job and out of the tournament. Randi appealed to anyone who wanted to hire her in the Orlando area to do so...
Amazingly, we went from a tournament that would never end to heads-up play in the matter of about 25 minutes. When heads-up play began, the chip counts were:
Anne Heft 1.6 million
Sally Anne Boyer 985,000
Anne Heft sort of hung around, and hung around, and kept about an average stack going throughout the slow stages of this final table, and in what seemed like a flash, she suddenly had her opponent outchipped pretty seriously.