Daniel Thomas found himself down to just over 100,000 and open-jammed in early position. He received a taker in 2021 RGPS Council Bluffs Golden Ticket Main Event Champion Nate Steuer, who was in the cutoff.
Thomas: 
Steuer: 
Both payers paired their ace on 
and the situation remained unchanged as the runout completed 
to bring about Thomas's elimination from the tournament.
Kipp Smith open-jammed for his last couple of big blinds under the gun and received action from Dave Grandin in the cutoff. Grandin showed 
.
"I haven't looked yet," said Smith. He then rolled over the along with the 
, one at a time.
The runout 
did Smith no favors and he was sent to the payout desk as a result.
As the previous level expired, Mike Vanier defended his big blind to an under-the-gun open from Shem Yusuf. The flop came 
and Vanier checked to Yusuf, who continuation-bets 55,000. Vanier check-raised to 140,000 and Yusuf called.
The turn was the and Vanier checked. Yusuf bet 165,000 and Vanier went into the tank for a while before check-jamming for Yusuf's effective stack of 430,000. Yusuf snap-called.
"Do you have a full house?" asked Vanier. "I flopped a straight," he added as he tabled 
. Yusuf confirmed the answer to Vanier's question, showing 
for the turned boat. The river 
completed the runout and the pot of roughly 1.3 million was shipped to Yusuf.
Level: 20
Blinds: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 16,000
Guanyun Chen opened in the hijack and saw Mike Escareno re-shove for around 100,000 on the button. Chen called once it was his turn to do so.
Escareno:
Chen: 
A queen-high runout 
was not enough for Escareno to stay alive, and he was eliminated in 40th place as a result.
Tom King was just seen getting all in preflop once more from middle position against Tim Dorzweiler in the small blind.
King: 
Dorzweiler:
King's big-slick had run into the preflop nuts, and he could only muster one of the two kings he would need to improve on a runout of 
to bring about his elimination from the tournament.
Tom King was in the big blind and got his stack of 61,000 into the middle against Chris Fraley in the cutoff.
King:
Fraley: 
King hit one of his kind on the flop 
and locked up the double by the turn 
, with the river completing the runout to make the hand official.
Clint Applegarth open-jammed for 202,000 in early position and Norman Kauffman called all in for 151,000 in the cutoff.
Kauffman: 
Applegarth:
Kauffman flopped top pair on 
, leaving Applegarth in need of hitting one of his two overcards to win the pot. The turn 
took away two of his outs, and the river proved to be one of those, giving him top pair but improving Kauffman to a flush and scoring him the double.
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