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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.
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.
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.
With the rush of excitement filling the room tournament area during our recent royal flush sighting, the last hand played by Andy Rizzo was lost in the commotion.
For her 13th place finish here in the Ladies event, Rizzo pocketed $591 in prize money.
Doug Conover got the last of his chips all in preflop against Natale Kuey.
Kuey: 
Conover: 
The board ran out 
, no help to Conover.
"Nice playing with you guys," he said.
Diane Grippo's tournament life came to an end when her 
failed to catch up to the 
held by Deb Qualey.
An ace on the flop put her far behind, and another on the turn made it official. Despite falling just short of the final table, Grippo earned $676 for the deep run, enough to take a shot in one of the flights of tomorrow's $250,000 guaranteed event.
Leslie Sewell had the best of it when the chips went in, holding 
against Megan Milburn's , but in a coin flip situation, both hands nearly the same chances of coming up on top.
The flop of 
provided Milburn with an additional set of outs to the Broadway straight, but it was the 
on the turn which put Sewell on the brink. When the river blanked off and failed to bring a saving set of eights, Sewell headed to the payout desk just short of the ten-handed final table.
Richard Gargel raised to 200,000 under the gun, and Alan Sansone pushed all in from the button for 306,000. Steve Saklad moved in over the top of that from the big blind. Gargel folded.
Sansone: 
Saklad: 
The dealer rolled out a flop of 
, and Sansone went from completely dominated to completely in command.
"So far, so good," he said. Things stayed good when the and 
completed the board, and Sansone doubled up to about 900,000.
| Player | Stack |
|---|---|
| Steve Saklad | 725,000 |
| Richard Gargel | 940,000 |
| Alan Sansone | 700,000 |
| Natale Kuey | 1,300,000 |
After the elimination of Leslie Sewell, the final ten ladies just redrew and reconvened at the final table. Here are their seat assignments and chip counts when ten-handed play began:
| Seat | Player | Chip Count |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Denise Ronca | 455,000 |
| 2 | Jenni Chang | 151,000 |
| 3 | Dawn Santoli | 205,000 |
| 4 | Megan Milburn | 530,000 |
| 5 | Teresa Sexton | 615,000 |
| 6 | Valerie Novak | 226,000 |
| 7 | Deb Qualey | 271,000 |
| 8 | Pat Knoll | 150,000 |
| 9 | Roseanne Musillo | 340,000 |
| 10 | Dawn Wilnow | 170,000 |