In one of the most dramatic hands of the entire tournament, Ekaterina Rodkina was eliminated in 14th place, despite holding with an ace and a pair on board.
The excitement began when the dealer fanned a flop of across the felt, and Roseanne Musillo decided to shove all in for a sizable stack. Rodkina held the pocket rockets of course, and with a seemingly safe flop now on board, she snap-called and showed down her monster.
Musillo revealed her holding, and when the table saw her everyone readied for a momentous sweat.
Turn:
The dealer burned and turned, filling in the mother of all hands in an instant. Musillo had made a royal flush to put a lock on the hand, and even though Rodkina filled up with the on the river, it was all for naught.
We learned from Rodkina's friend Olga, who was on hand throughout to provide support, that the young player is still student the game, and with her impressive showing here today its obvious she's quite the quick learner.
Players have moved tables to make life easier on the tournament staff, and they're on a 15-minute break now. When they return, blinds will be 20,000-40,000 with a 4,000 ante.
With a flurry of bustouts occuring within moments of each other (including a dramatic Royal Flush reversal of fortune we'll be filling you in on shortly), unfortunately we missed Linda Vaughn's last hand of the Ladies event.
She exited in 15th place and took home $591 for the performance.
Brandi Baldwin got it all in with the best of it, holding against , but when a straightening board of rolled out by the turn, her tournament was over via a bad beat.
Nonetheless, Baldwin pocketed $507 for the run here today, enough to come back tomorrow and try her hand in the continuing $250,000 guaranteed event.
A short-stacked Gina Saldano got the last of her chips in shortly after the recent redraw, but she was unable to produce a winning hand and exited in 18th place.
Although she fell short of the final table, Saldano earned $507 for her deep run here today.
David Katz pushed all in over the top of a raise from Steve Saklad, who made the call.
Katz:
Saklad:
Chop possibilities opened up for Katz on the flop, but a turn gave Saklad a flush draw to eliminate some outs. The river was the , and Saklad's queen kicker played to send Katz out.
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across the felt, and Roseanne Musillo decided to shove all in for a sizable stack. Rodkina held the pocket rockets of course, and with a seemingly safe flop now on board, she snap-called and showed down her monster.
everyone readied for a momentous sweat.
on the river, it was all for naught.
rolled out by the turn, her tournament was over via a bad beat.
up against 
, but the final board rolled out 
turn gave Saklad a flush draw to eliminate some outs. The river was the 
