Cha-Ching!
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Well, Randy Lorensen won't have to go home empty-handed.
On the far side of the room, we watched Derek Updergraff get his last ~100,000 chips into the middle against the big stack Jacob Naquin. It was 
for Updergraff, and he was relatively unlucky to have to race against Naquin's 
for his tournament life.
Naquin was looking for an ace, and he found two of them as the flop came 
to leave Updergraff dead to two outs. The turn 
and river 
failed to bail him out, and he too has been eliminated.
Apart from Lorensen and Updergraff, another four players were also eliminated over the course of that orbit. Those six players will chop up the bottom five payouts, each taking home $2,392.50 for their work here this week. Profit!
The rest of the remaining field is now guaranteed a payday larger than that one, and we're back in action as we play on deeper into the money.