Samantha Cohen ran into some bad luck a short time ago after calling a short-stacked player's all in with while she held . The board came to double up her opponent and cripple Cohen, and she was eliminated shortly thereafter in 99th.
With her elimination, that means Claire Renaut is our last remaining woman among the 93 remaining players. She's been hanging on with a below average stack for a while, hovering between 60,000-80,000.
Jake Cody raised to 8,500 from middle position and got a caller in the player sitting in the cutoff seat. The action was on Nam Le on the button, and after checking his cards he declared an all-in reraise amounting to about 60,000. The blinds folded, and after tanking a bit Cody said he was reraising over the top all in, forcing a quick fold from the third player.
Cody:
Le:
The dealer burned a card and spread the flop — — pairing Cody. The turn was the and river the , and Le is out.
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Eric Levesque raised from early position, and it folded around to Diego Suaya in the blinds who reraised to 106,000, about the equivalent of Levesque's total chips. Levesque called, tabling to Locascio's .
The flop was very good for Levesque, coming to give him a full house, and by the turn Suaya was drawing dead.