We happened upon Table 425 with an extremely short-stacked Kevin MacPhee all in and up against Tom Schneider.
MacPhee: / / (x)
Schneider: / /
MacPhee was ahead when his chips went in, but Schneider drew well. The 2007 World Series of Poker Player of the Year made a low to lock up half the pot, and then hit a straight on sixth street to leave MacPhee drawing dead.
The tournament clock says we currently have 99 players in the field, which means we're just three eliminations from the money. Unfortunately, Konstantin Puchkov and Marcel Luske will not be earning a payday today as they're both among the recent eliminations.
We just watched the tail end of the bubble hand play out between Andrew Prock and Anthony Dick.
Prock was the short stack, and had a board of showing after sixth street. He had gotten himself all in somewhere along the line. Dick had , and his flush was the hand for Prock to beat as he sweated his seventh card.
Prock needed to fill up to stay alive, but he could not. The was no help, and he's been eliminated as our bubble boy.