Benjamin Lukas Eliminated in 15th Place ($8,641)

Stud:

Benjamin Lukas got himself all in on fifth street of a big multi-way Stud pot. By the time he committed his last 31,000, he was left battling with Jason Brown and David Rogers.

Lukas: (x-x) / {8-Clubs} {4-Diamonds} {J-Clubs} {Q-Hearts} / (x)
Brown: (x-x) / {6-Hearts} {10-Spades} {10-Hearts} {5-Diamonds} / (x)
Rogers: (x-x) / {A-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds} / (x)

Rogers made the default bet on sixth street showing four to a Royal Flush. Brown could only chuckle. "Did you catch good?" he asked rhetorically. After some time, he tucked and mucked, and the cards were turned up.

"Do you have a flush?" Lukas wanted to know.

"Yep," Rogers admitted. He showed down {K-Spades} {2-Diamonds} / {A-Diamonds} {Q-Diamonds} {10-Diamonds} {K-Diamonds} , then added the blank {3-Spades} on seventh.

"How bad are you drawing?" one of Lukas' buddies on the rail asked.

"Dead," came the one-word answer. He opened up two more clubs in the hole, but his {A-Clubs} {3-Clubs} could not possibly improve to a better flush than Rogers'. He made trips with the {4-Hearts} , but it was far from enough.