Ken Mazik was eliminated in 17th place. Since returning from break he managed to squeeze and pick up about 45,000 chips, but on this hand he ran 
into the 
of Sai Mudduluru.
Mudduluru stayed ahead and Mazik was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
619,000
204,000
|
204,000 |
|
Busted |
Chris Roberts has been chasing Donald Groves on the HPO Columbus leaderboard all tournament. Groves found no luck in the main event, but he had a great week that propelled him to the top of the list.
In consecutive days, he won a PLO tournament, finished second in a No Limit tournament and cashed the Survivor tournament. He will likely win the leaderboard. The only way he won't is if Roberts wins the Main Event. However, if Roberts wins the Main he will get a seat to the $2,500 championship event at the M Resort and Spa. The same prize he would get for being at the top of the leaderboard, so if he already has a seat, Groves would win the seat for the leaderboard.
Rick Kaplan was eliminated in 18th place. The players were redrawing for the final two tables, but Kaplan busted just before the redraw. He walks away with $3,113 for his finish.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Kelly Wolfe was eliminated in 19th place, shortly after Thila Narayanan. The remaining players hit a new pay jump and are now guaranteed a minimum of $3,113.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Thila Narayanan was eliminated in 20th place. He got all in with Greg Yeager on a flop of 
.
Narayanan had 
and Yeager had . Yeager stayed ahead and eliminated Narayanan in 20th place.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
398,000
78,000
|
78,000 |
|
Busted |
Justin Newlen was eliminated by Sai Mudduluru. Newlen and Mudduluru got all in on the flop.
Newlen had an open-ended straight draw, holding 
on the 
flop. Mudduluru had 
for a pair of nines.
The turn brought a straight for Newlen with the 
, but the river brought a bigger straight for Mudduluru with the 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
340,000
133,000
|
133,000 |
|
Busted |
Jeremy West was eliminated in 22nd place. He got all in with Chris Roberts preflop. Roberts had 
versus the 
of West from the big blind. West lost the hand and was left with about 3,000 chips.
On the next hand, he was eliminated by Joe Ebanks.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
427,000
2,000
|
2,000 |
|
||
|
120,000
46,000
|
46,000 |
|
Busted | |
Chris Meyers has knocked out another player. He already knocked out David Harvey with pocket queens versus and this time it was Jon Hoellein who had the . Meyers had queens again and would earn the knockout again.
The action started with a preflop raise from Kelly Wolfe. Hoellein called before Meyers three bet. Wolfe folded and Hoellein shoved all in, Meyers called. Meyers queens held and Hoellein was eliminated.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
420,000 | |
|
Busted |
Jeff Muncy was eliminated in 24th place. Greg Yeager had pocket jacks against the pocket nines of Muncy and the two got all in preflop.
The board brought no help for Muncy who was eliminated in 24th place and will take home $2,739.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
320,000
32,000
|
32,000 |
|
Busted |
David Harvey was eliminated in 25th Place when he got all in with Chris Meyers.
Harvey opened the action with a preflop raise to 12,000 and Meyers three bet to 28,000. When the action was back on Harvey, he shoved all in for 135,000 more.
Meyers thought for a moment before calling and showed . It was a race, Harvey held . The board brought no help for Harvey and Meyers won the hand and almost doubled up since he only had Harvey covered by 10,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
300,000
55,000
|
55,000 |
|
Busted |
