It didn't take long for the first elimination of the day, less than a half an hour in fact. It happened on a flop when Phil Mader checked from the big blind and Sean Small bet 102,000. Mader moved all in for right around 300,000 and Small couldn't call fast enough.

Mader:
Small:

Small was ahead with pocket kings, but Mader was drawing very much alive to an open-ended straight draw. The turn gave him even more outs, but the river was not one of them. Mader exited in tenth place for $9,275 and the official final table was set.