A player in late position shoved for their last 27,000 chips and requested from the table: "Double me up or send me home." Brad Cohen, in the cutoff, contemplated for well over a minute before calling off.
Late Position: 
Brad Cohen: 
The flop came 
and the late position player started to walk away after saying "Nice playing with you all." The 
and 
completed the board.
Just before the bubble burst, two players were involved in a big hand on table 501. Action was caught on a board of 
.
Charlie Miller bet 75,000 after a check from Stephen Brasel, who finally made the call with only 27,000 behind. On the river, Brasel checked again and Miller pushed whole his stack in for around 57,000.
Stephen Brasel was at risk and potentially bubble boy if he called and lost. He finally folded and Charlie Miller took this big pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
273,000
210,000
|
210,000 |
|
|
27,000
-122,000
|
-122,000 |
The bubble has officially burst and all remaining 1,079 remaining players are guaranteed at least $1,600.
Among the remaining players is the defending champion, Robert McMillan, who is over the average stack with 147,000.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
147,000
17,000
|
17,000 |
|
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The situation is classic: the bubble has burst and a lot of players are disappearing from the tournament. On Theo Jorgensen's table, for example, we caught action with the Danish player trying to eliminate Mitch Garshofsky.
Mitch Garshofsky: 
Theo Jorgensen: 
The board read 
and Theo Jorgensen made a set of nines to eliminate Garshofsky.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
370,000
217,000
|
217,000 |
|
|
||
|
Busted | |
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
490,000
140,000
|
140,000 |
|
|
||
|
300,000
266,500
|
266,500 |
|
285,000
228,500
|
228,500 |
|
215,000
109,000
|
109,000 |
|
200,000
158,000
|
158,000 |
|
|
||
|
140,000
-10,000
|
-10,000 |
|
||
|
|
140,000
-7,000
|
-7,000 |
|
|
||
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
490,000
274,000
|
274,000 |
|
|
440,000
440,000
|
440,000 |
|
411,000
268,000
|
268,000 |
|
390,000
40,000
|
40,000 |
|
|
390,000
205,500
|
205,500 |
|
|
370,000
370,000
|
370,000 |
|
270,000
125,000
|
125,000 |
|
205,000
116,500
|
116,500 |
|
156,000
155,999
|
155,999 |
|
54,000
-49,500
|
-49,500 |
|
|
||
Tournament directors have stopped play with 42:58 left on the clock in Level 14.
Now players are back in action, a lot of shortstack players are trying to do their best to come back in this tournament.
When everybody folded to him, Steven Jungmann tried to take the blinds from the button, announcing all in for 56,000. The player in the small blind folded, but not Michael Johnson in the big blind, who jumped on this occasion to try to double up, with almost the same stack.
Steven Jungmann:
Michael Johnson: 
The board ran 
and Johnson's ace-king was enough to win.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
120,000
8,000
|
8,000 |
|
Busted |
Stephen Driggers, in the small blind, called a raise to 10,000 by the cutoff. The big blind then moved all in for 18,000. The cutoff put in a four bet to 30,000, and Driggers called.
On the 
flop, Driggers led out for 30,000. His opponent thought for a moment or two, before making the laydown to let Driggers and the big blind have a heads-up showdown.
Big Blind: 
Stephen Driggers: 
Driggers was well ahead with top pair and was able to fade his opponent's king as the runout came 
. Driggers scooped the pot while his opponent departed for the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
340,000
62,500
|
62,500 |
Markus Brunner, in the cutoff, was involved in an all in preflop hand with the hijack worth nearly 225,000 chips.
Hijack:
Markus Brunner: 
The board ran out 
and Brunner was able to avoid a bad beat and see his stack soar to over a quarter of a million chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
251,000
124,000
|
124,000 |
