Former World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel has been knocked out in eighth place at the feature table.
Christopher Frank raised to 1,000 and Duhamel raised all in for 5,050 and Vladimir Troyanovskiy called the shove. Frank folded his and the showdown went as follows.
Troyanovskiy:
Duhamel:
The board brought and Team Canada lost their most accomplished live tournament player in eighth place. Canada currently sits in sixth place, but the UK and Ukraine have all their eight players still contending in this heat.
Marc-Andre Ladouceur first knocked out Bryn Kenney over on Table 1. The two got their chips in with ace king (Ladouceur) against queens (Kenney. The board ran out and Ladouceur busted the Team America player.
"I'll miss the stories" Ladouceur said with a smile. The table agreed.
Not much later Ladouceur eliminated Igor Yaroshevsky. Ladouceur again had and was up against before the flop. The board ran out .
Can anyone save Team America in the other tables? Of course!
Yesterday at the Draw Party, some teams were concerned that two Time Bank Chips per heat, per team wouldn't be enough. That was proved wrong as very few players have found the need to use them, so teams have amassed quite a few by the time the last heat started.
If you could rely on one man to find a spot to use them up, that man would be Marvin Rettenmaier.
He and Marc-Andre Ladouceur made it to the river where the board rested as . Ladouceur set the German in for his last 6,550 and he took three minutes and thirty seconds (using three Time Bank Chips) to fold face up. Ladouceur was then goaded into showing his bluff with .