We found John Racener with a raise of 50,000 in front of him before the flop. His opponent, Andrew Oh on the button, had jammed it in with a covering stack of a bit more than 400,000 and Racener decided to call off his own 400,000.
Racener:
Oh:
The flop brought additional outs for Racener: , as a nine would now counterfeit Oh. The turn was a brick and a river left Racener with naught.
"Good luck, guys," the former Main Event runner-up said as he exited the table.
Jonathan Dimmig lost a ton of chips after he got it in with on a flop only to see his opponent turn over . Both the turn and the river weren't what the chip leader wanted to see and he dropped 568,000 chips postflop.
One hand later, Ardie Ervin ran into the of his table neighbor and his hole cards were already rushed away. He was severely short stacked though, and bowed out in 43rd place.
We saw David Wilkinson all in preflop with his 225,000 chips on the button. Andrew Seidman called in the small blind and flipped over a dominating to Wilkinson's . The board ran out for a turned flush for Wilkinson and now the two players are close to even in chips.
Andrew Seidman raised to 40,000 and then called the all in of Andrew Oh for 143,000 on top of that. Seidman showed but could not score the knockout versus .
One hand later, Seidman min-raised again and Gennady Shimelfarb three-bet to 110,000 one seat over. Maurice Hawkins called on the button and the blinds folded. The board was checked down, Seidman showed , Shimelfarb turned over and Hawkins laughed before tabling . He ran away for a few seconds to cheer all by himself and then came back to stack the chips.