Our last woman standing, Melanie Weisner, has just been eliminated from the tournament. We weren't able to witness the hand, but we were told that Gregory Dyer raised under the gun with and Weisner called from the big blind with . The flop came and they got all the chips in the middle. Weisner was unable to catch up and she was sent to the rail.
After consulting with the WSOP Media Team here at the Rio, we've been able to confirm that there was an error in the payout list, which has now been rectified. Mark Flowers was listed earlier as having placed in both 117th and 118th place, which is of course impossible, unless Flowers has managed to master the science of human cloning in the last 24 hours.
We can confirm though that Flowers has placed 117th in this tournament, while Micah Hendrix has been confirmed as the 122nd place finisher. All the other positions have been adjusted accordingly - but to save the hassle of having to list them again, you can check out the updated payout list here.
Although we missed the action, right before the break Ankush Mandavia was eliminated from the tournament by Jeffrey Papola. The board read and Papola had the which rivered a king to beat Mandavia's .
After the hand Papola's stack was up to 425,000 and he is easily one of our chip leaders at the moment. It seems six-handed events are Papola's bread and butter as last year he took second place in the $2,500 six-handed event #26 and then went on to win a bracelet in the $5,000 six-handed event #32.
Is another bracelet in Papola's future? Stay tuned!
There was a steady steam of eliminations leading up to the dinner break, but with the players starting to settle down, we've now been able to catch up on all those who have made some bread - figuratively speaking.
Place
Name
Country
Amount
67
Alexandre Gauron
Canada
$4,898
68
Dennis Beres
United States
$4,898
69
Ervin Tormos
United States
$4,898
70
Bryan Paris
United States
$4,898
71
Marc Blais
Canada
$4,898
72
Mark Bryan
United States
$4,898
73
Alex Santiago
United States
$4,898
74
Jacob Toole
United States
$4,898
75
Fabio Coppola
Italy
$4,898
76
Timothy Clark
United States
$4,898
77
Oscar Castagna
United States
$4,898
78
Victor Ramdin
United States
$4,898
79
Clayton Newman
United States
$4,510
80
Paul Loh
United States
$4,510
81
Alexander Venovski
United States
$4,510
82
Clayton Prinster
United States
$4,510
83
Bryan Horist
Canada
$4,510
84
Chris Klodnicki
United States
$4,510
85
Jacob Naquin
United States
$4,510
86
Grant Hinkle
United States
$4,510
87
Seth Hilleren
United States
$4,510
88
Alexander Barlow
United States
$4,510
89
Joseph Stefan
United States
$4,510
90
Ian Gillespie
United States
$4,510
The remaining players are now guaranteed at least $5,313 in prize money.
From under the gun Matt Stout made it 4,800, Sean Grover reraised to 12,000 from early position and Mazin Khoury raised to 28,000 from the button. Stout snap shoved all in for about 88,000 and Grover then reraised all in for his massive stack. Khoury flashed two queens and sighed as he announced his fold.
Stout showed and Grover showed . Luckily for Stout (and Khoury who folded) the door card was a king on the flop. Since Khoury already showed the other two queens, Grover was drawing dead and Stout took down the enormous pot.
Stout moved up to 208,000 and Grover down to 170,000
In one of the first hands after the dinner break, the action folded to Alexandre Gauron who raised to 5,000 before the flop before Alexander Wice reraised to 13,000. Gauron quickly pushed all in and Wice snap-called, showing down against Gauron's .
Gauron took the lead after the dealer spread the flop of , but Wice picked up the outs to the Broadway straight with the on the turn. As it turned out, he didn't need them, because he binked the on the river for the bigger two pair.
Wice is now up to 214,000 in chips while Gauron is gone-ski.