Marco Marked for Elimination

Marco Traniello put the last of his chips into what developed as a huge five-way pot against Jeffrey Burdsall, Brenda Rizer, Men "the Master" Nguyen and Vince Burgio. Burdsall wound up folding after fifth street, but the rest of the players went all the way to the river. For the side pot, Nguyen showed trip eights for high with no low; Rizer showed trip nines for high with no low; and Burgio showed an ace-to-five straight for high and low. That hand scooped the side pot and also beat Traniello out of the main pot.

Traniello earned $3,638 in prize money for his 32nd place finish.