Salvatore Bonavena Eliminated in 17th Place (€15,000)
Level 23
: 12,000/24,000, 3,000 ante
Marco Leonzio opened for 60,000 in the hijack and Peter Skripka made it 140,000 from the cutoff. On the button, Salvatore Bonavena tanked up for a long time before announcing all in. "Forza Italia!" cried someone at the rail. Leonzio snap-folded, but Skripka thought about it only very briefly before making the call.
Skripka: 
Bonavena: 
Looking pretty good for a chop, right?
Flop: 
"One more spade!" said Skripka.
Turn: 
"One more spade!"
River: 
Ouch. With that, Mr. Bonavena is out of the running, and we are down to just two former EPT winners in the field - Rob Hollink and Kevin MacPhee. Skripka is now gigantic chip leader on 3.3 million.