A Winner Will Be Crowned Today in Event #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em
Welcome to the fourth and final day of Event #64: $888 Crazy Eights No-Limit Hold'em.
At 12 p.m. local time, the final ten players will return to the felt to continue to battle it out until a winner is crowned.
Starting the day as a massive chip leader is Aleksandras Rusinovas with an impressive stack of 114,625,000, the only stack above the 100,000,000 mark. Rusinovas is already guaranteed the first five-figure score of his WSOP resume but will be going for a six-figure score that 8th place would guarantee, and will be shooting for that $888,888 top prize. He is followed by Thomas Drivas with a stack of 58,600,000. Drivas already owns a WSOP Circuit ring and will try to match it with a bracelet. 888poker ambassador Vivian Saliba sits in third with 43,500,000. Saliba has over $120,000 in earnings at the WSOP and will try to claim her first WSOP title. Anything in the top seven places will double her WSOP lifetime earnings.
Mark Radoja (36,100,000), and Vlad Darie (26,750,000) are still in contention as well. Radoja owns two bracelets and has $1,834,112 in cashes at the WSOP. He will be looking to add more gold to his collection. As for Darie, he got 6th in this event in 2017 and will try to close it out this year.
The remaining 10 players are all guaranteed a min-cash of $82,130 but all eyes will be on that first-place prize of 888,888 along with the shiny WSOP gold bracelet. Action will resume with blinds of 600,000/1,200,000 with an ante of 1,200,000.
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| Room | Table | Seat | Player | Country | Chip Count | Big Blinds |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon | 1 | 4 | Thomas Drivas | United States | 58,600,000 | 49 |
| Amazon | 1 | 5 | Keun Kwak | United States | 12,000,000 | 10 |
| Amazon | 1 | 6 | Vlad Darie | Romania | 26,750,000 | 22 |
| Amazon | 1 | 7 | Mark Radoja | Canada | 36,100,000 | 30 |
| Amazon | 1 | 8 | Mario Hofler | United States | 15,200,000 | 13 |
| Amazon | 2 | 1 | Vivian Saliba | Brazil | 43,500,000 | 36 |
| Amazon | 2 | 2 | Rick Alvarado | United States | 21,150,000 | 18 |
| Amazon | 2 | 3 | Aleksandras Rusinovas | Lithuania | 114,625,000 | 96 |
| Amazon | 2 | 6 | Patrick Clarke | Ireland | 36,000,000 | 30 |
| Amazon | 2 | 7 | Uselis Gediminas | United States | 43,400,000 | 36 |
gave Kwak some hope on the flop and turn but the river bricked his outs and Kwak was eliminated in the opening minutes of the final day.
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flop was one of the better ones for Gediminas but the 
turn and 
and Darie stayed ahead, eliminating Hofler in 8th place for $105,888.
hit the turn and Darie moved all in for 20.4 million. Alvarado checked Clarke's stack and then called. Clarke gave up.
river sent Darie into the rail.
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turn and 
river changed nothing and Radoja scored a massive double.
board. Drivas had her covered by about 5 million and the 888poker Ambassador was eliminated in 4th place.
