Quads for Isildur1; Game Over for Nitsche; Bad Beat for Metalidi
The chips have been flying in the last level while the blinds moved up to 25,000/50,000 since for the penultimate level of Day 1B.
Max Silver has been eliminated and other notables in the rail include Felipe Ramos, Ema Zajmovic, Thi Nguyen, Yan Shing Tsang, Marty Mathis, Dominik Nitsche and Artem Metalidi.
Tsang first doubled for ten big blinds with 
against Stephen Chidwick's 
thanks to four diamonds until the turn, but then lost all his chips back to Chidwick just to make up for it. Erik Friberg benefited from a setup hand to double with 
versus 
when the flop fell 
, the 
turn and 
river were both blanks and the kicker played.
The elimination of Florin Tirtea largely came from a big "aces cracked story" against the one and only Viktor "Isildur1" Blom. After just calling from the big blind, Tirtea check-raised from 125,000 to 250,000 on the 
flop and Blom reraised to 675,000. Tirtea shoved and Blom called for 1.52 million.
Viktor Blom: 
Florin Tirtea: 
The turn and river run out was an overkill with the quads for the Swede, and Tirtea's remaining few chips vanished soon after.
As for Metalidi, he got it in with against Sofian Benaissa's 
, and as you may have guessed it, the aces were no good again. A board of 
gave the Frenchman a winninr straight, he moved up to 7.2 million. Preben Stokkan has even more than that with 7.5 million, sending Dominik Nitsche to the rail when the German got 15 big blinds in with ace-nine versus ace-king.
