With two eliminations at Table 12 we're now down to our final 18. After Randy Lingenfelter busted Tim Silman in 20th place, chip leader Thomas MacKenzie took care of Scott Gaddi in 19th.
Gaddi was all in and ahead preflop with the against MacKenzie's , but the board gave MacKenzie two pair and the win.
Robert Donegan opened to 50,000 from early position, Joe Ciffa called from middle position and Thomas MacKenzie called on the button.
The dealer fanned the flop and Donnegan made a huge overshove for 464,000. Ciffa snap-called, and MacKenzie folded.
Ciffa showed for a queen-high flush, and Donagean sheepishly tabled his as he was was only drawing to a miraculous chop. The and completed the board and Donegan made his way out of the room.
Ciffa has now joined MacKenzie in the million-chip club. There are a lot of chips at Table 6.
We missed the hand, but Andre Smith told us he made a big laydown to Joe Ciffa a short while ago — and he was right. Ciffa made it 25,000 from early position and Smith three-bet to 55,000. Back on Ciffa, he four-bet to 200,000 and Smith folded his face up. Ciffa kindly revealed his .
Chris Gras opened from the hijack, Veerab Zakarian flatted from the small blind and Vincent Palma three-bet from the big blind. Gras folded, but Zakarian woke up with a shove for around 350,000. Palma called off for a little less.
Zakarian:
Palma:
Two monster hands in the blinds, but it was Palma needing help and he failed to get any on the board.
Dave Grana was all-in preflop for around 180,000 holding the against Joe Ciffa's . The board secured the double for Grana, who continues to find success grinding the short stack in this series. He made the final table of Event #3 on Thursday, eventually finishing ninth.
John Michalak and Joseph [Removed:340] saw a raised flop of with more than 200,000 already in the pot. [Removed:340] moved all in, putting Michalak to a decision for all of his chips, and Michalak pushed his remaining stack into the pot.
[Removed:340]:
Michalak:
Michalak needed a queen but the turn and river ended his run in 14th place.
Lue Huang shoved for 213,000 from early position, and as it turned out several players behind him had big decisions to make. First to act was Randy Lingenfelter, who thought for a moment before folding. Action made its way to Michael Ferrer, who sat checked his cards twice, got up from his seat, and stared at the felt for a minute before sitting back down and flicking his cards into the muck.
Anthony Sgroi then moved all in, forcing a fold from both of the blinds.
Huang:
Sgroi:
Sgroi's decision was an easy one, and the board gave him a big pot to push him over the 1 million threshold.
Lingenfelter couldn't believe his eyes as he said he folded a king. Meanwhile, Ferrer told us he folded pocket tens. Wild hand.
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