Joey Barttole looked down at his under the gun and bumped it up to 250,000. The action folded round to Jose Luis Franco in the big blind, who jammed all in for 390,000.
Franco called with his ladies, and was happy when he saw Franco's -- but not for long, however, as the board ran out to give Franco the double up.
While Franco moved to 840,000 in chips, Bratolle slipped to just 115,000.
Following the elimination of Joey Barttole, we have now reached our official final table.
Seat 1: Zack Fritz
Seat 2: Avi Braz
Seat 3: Rico Ramirez
Seat 4: Jason Potter
Seat 5: Jose Luis Franco
Seat 6: Mike Zulter
Seat 7: Mike Eise
Seat 8: Jeff Chang
Seat 9: Barry Berger
Play has been fairly slow since losing Joey Barttole.
The only noted aggression has been shown by Barry Berger who has now pushed all in two hands in a row to pretty much double his stack through the blinds and antes.
Rico Ramiriz may have plenty of chips, but he isn't afraid to splash them round as he has three-bet two separate opponents twice during the last orbit.
With action on Jason Potter in the hi-jack, he opened to 100,000 only to have a short-stacked Mike Zulker push all in on the button. Potter called and the cards were tabled.
Potter:
Zulker:
The flop fell down to give both players a pair, and Zulker the stonger kicker of the two.
When the turn landed the Potter gained a flush-draw to add to his outs to eliminate Zulker.
The rail pressed hard, the crowd stood and the dealer burn and turned the to give Potter a superiour two-pair and send Zulker to the rail in 9th place.
As a dejected Zulker exited the tournament floor to collect his $77,778, Potter raked in the pot to move to around 1,600,000 in chips.
Rico Ramirez opened from the cutoff to 275,000, only to have Mike Eise in the big blind push all in for over four million.
Ramirez didn't think twice, turning over his to signify a call and be in a race against Eise's .
The rail of Ramirez, that numbered in the teens, all stood from their chairs and pressed hard against the metal support rail screaming excessively.
The flop was slowly dealt out and even more screams were let out - somehow exceeding the ones previously.
"C'mon baby!" yelled one supporter as the landed on the turn, and when the fell on the turn, Ramirez 2,275,000 chip stack increased to a whopping 4,600,000!
As the Tournament Director reminded the rail of the excessive celebration rule, Eise looked down at a still healthy 1,650,000 in chips.