Olivier Bousquet raised to 52,000 from under-the-gun and Lika Gerasimova pushed all in from the big blind. Bousquet made the call and the hands were shown.
Bousquet:
Gerasimova:
The flop of gave Gerasimova the nut flush draw and the on the turn made her hand. The on the river was meaningless and Bousquet was sent home in 12th place with a payday of 47,501.
Thomas Keller opened to 60,000 from early position and play folded to David Inselberg on the button who moved all in over the top. Fabian Quoss was next to act in the small blind and he announced he was all in also! Keller deliberated for several minutes before folding what he claimed was pocket jacks.
Inselberg:
Quoss:
The board ran out and Quoss takes down a huge pot to eliminate Inselberg from the tournament in 11th place. He'll take home $47,501 for his efforts.
With that elimination, we're now down to our final ten players. They will redraw for the final table, with one more elimination required before we move over to the ESPN feature table.
The play at the final table so far has been very slow, with no significant hands to report. Such is the nature of a ten-handed final table, with the bait of the webcast hanging over their heads to ensure no one wants to be the one to bust in 10th place.
The players will now be taking a 20-minute break to have a think about things, and when they return, the increased blinds should stimulate some more action.
Isaac Baron raised to 60,000 from middle position and got reraised to 125,000 by Brian Lemke in the hijack. Mike Sowers called from the cutoff, as did Baron.
Everyone checked the flop of and Sowers led for 225,000 after action checked to him on the turn of . Both Baron and Lemke folded, giving Sowers the pot.
Lika Gerasimova raised to 62,000 from early position and got called by Danny Illingworth. When action folded to Christian Iacobellis on the button, he reraised all in for a total of 417,000.
Gerasimova quickly folded and Illingworth tanked for more than a minute before finally mucking his hand. Iacobellis now has a stack worth about 570,000.