The bus has broken down. Carter Phillips got Jerome Bettis all in for a battle of the blinds. Bettis had the best hand with against the of Phillips, but the flop gave Phillips two pair, . Bettis got to experience a little bit of a sweat when the turn came , but the on the river was a harmless blank.
Phil Gordon opened for 17,000. Action passed to Kyle Carlston who moved all in for 39,000. Gordon called with . Carlston's was drawing, but out-flopped . The turn didn't change anything, but the river did. It gave each player jacks and tens, with Gordon's king kicker playing.
That didn't take long. On one of the very first final table hands, Gilbert Diaz got his stack in with pocket kings. Alex Filatov called with pocket jacks and caught a jack on the flop to send Diaz to the rail as the bubble boy.