We don't know the exact circumstances, but Bryan Devonshire is presumably busted as he was spotted limping over to the payout desk on what we think was a broken leg.
We do not think this tournament and the broken leg are connected.
We found Dmitry Vitkind moving in for 24,000 on the turn of a board. He sat there looking very alert, while his buddy and fellow Dmitry, Dmitry Stelmak, stood behind his chair like a relatively harmless bodyguard.
Eventually Vitkind's opponent, who'd spent a while stacking a re-stacking chips, announced call. He turned over for a pair of nines, but Vitkind triumphantly tabled for a higher pair. The river was a blank and Vitkind doubled to what looked like a huge pile of unstacked random chips even five minutes later, but we suspect was well over 60,000.
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Mohsin Charania got his last in with pocket jacks, but had smacked right into another player's pocket queens. He received absolutely no assistance from the board, and busted out in 386th place.
We arrived just in time to see a three-way preflop all-in showdown.
Player 1:
Player 2:
Justin Crow:
Board: an exciting but ultimately no-one-hit-anything
The two gents with the queens chopped it up, and Crow was eliminated, despite shouting, "King!" and latterly, "Deuce!" at the felt. He made a face like somehow that had been a bad beat, but had cheered up somewhat by the time he joined the huge queue for the payout desk. "It was my 21st birthday on Saturday," he told us with a smile. Many happy returns from PokerNews and the WSOP! Crow will be taking home a small cash from his first ever WSOP - not a bad result by any means.