Alexander Kostritsyn had been nursing a short stack for most of the level leading up to the dual eliminations at bubble time. Shortly after the bubble burst, Kostritsyn was all in. Unfortunately, we did not get to see the hand he was eliminated on, but he is in the payout line receiving his money.
Kostritsyn is eliminated in 27th place and will receive $22,090 for his efforts
The final three tables have been assembled. Below are the new table and seat assignments. Recent eliminations have been taken into account.
Table 31
Seat 1: David Chiu
Seat 2: Danny Dang
Seat 3: Dustin Sitar
Seat 4: Mike Matusow
Seat 5: Stuart Paterson
Seat 6: Empty
Seat 7: William McMahon
Seat 8: Danny Smith
Seat 9: Toto Leonidas
Table 32
Seat 1: Ray Dehkharghani
Seat 2: Brad Booth
Seat 3: David Benyamine
Seat 4: Hieu 'Tony' Ma
Seat 5: Greg Jamison
Seat 6: Eugene Katchalov
Seat 7: James Grove
Seat 8: Ram Vaswani
Seat 9: James Van Alstyne
Table 36
Seat 1: Berry Johnston
Seat 2: Patrick Rao
Seat 3: Shun Uchida
Seat 4: Empty
Seat 5: Bruno Fitoussi
Seat 6: Brent Carter
Seat 7: Pat Pezzin
Seat 8: Jason Gray
Seat 9: Chau Giang
Greg Jamison took down the low but was disappointed not to scoop holding on a board of . His opponent, Eugene Katchalov, flipped over for a rivered straight to collect the high as Jamison took the low.
After the hand Brad Booth chirped to Jamison "Why are you so disappointed? You got half!" which drew a wry smile.
The board read with Fitoussi holding . Although that gave him four pairs, only two of them counted for kings and nines, but he found himself out-kicked by Pezzin with .
Fitoussi leaves us in 24th place for $22,090 in prize money.