Level 12
: 1,000/2,000, 2,000 ante
Armin Rezaei was sitting with a below-average chip stack but there were two others that had less chips than him at the table. Rezaei happened to get his stack in the middle against both players, Damien Pilkington-Lewis and David Splettstoesser.
Rezaei had the best of it with 
against the 
of Splettstoesser and 
of Pilkington-Lewis. The board ran out clean for Rezaei who scored the double knockout and brought his stack closer to the tournament average.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
136,000
26,000
|
26,000 |
|
Busted | |
|
Busted |
favored Dvoress who was in the lead with his pair of jacks. However, the 
river.
turn, Andrew Rauch had checked and Nariman Yaghmai as the new table big stack bet 18,500. Near instantly, Rauch pushed all-in for 45,000 and Yaghmai tank-folded.
versus 
when the Frenchman spiked a set on the 
board after Volkmann had started the hand with a short stack if around 40,000.
