Jerry Yang is hanging on the rail a couple of hours after busting from today's event. Turns out, he's sweating one of his students from home in California.
She's sitting on a short stack, but Jerry seems optimistic about her chances of hanging on.
We caught this hand just as J.J. Liu was standing up at the table.
She got all of her chips in the middle with on a flop of . Her opponent called with and turned the flush with the . A meaningless on the river ended Liu's day.
Rafe Furst was also eliminated from the tournament.
The hijack raised to the 3,000 preflop on Minneapolis Jim Meecham's small blind, and Meecham took about 15 seconds before making the call.
On the flop of , Meecham bet 10,000 and got the call. Meecham turned up aces and his opponent showed queens. A and on the turn and river gave Meecham the wheel and he's now sitting on 26,175 chips.