The Defending Champion Busts
Ryan Hefter was spotted leaving the tournament area and a quick look over on table 83 confirmed that he had been eliminated. According to other players at the table, Hefter was short and his ace-eight failed to get there against the ace-king of Sasa Stancic.
The latter raised to 11,000 soon after and Jakob Miegel shoved for 49,000. Stancic eventually called with the 
and Miegel flipped over 
, the German also expressed his surprise that Stancic had not snap-called.
Miegel got a sweat on the 
flop, and while the 
turn was a blank, he got there thanks to the 
river.
One table over, James Akenhead raised to 11,500 and called the shove of short stack James Hoeppner in the cutoff.
James Hoeppner: 
James Akenhead: 
The board of 
locked up the double for Hoeppner by the turn already and Akenhead lost some of the chips he had just gained in the own previous double up.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
180,000
79,000
|
79,000 |
|
110,000
80,500
|
80,500 |
|
100,000
30,000
|
30,000 |
|
70,000
30,500
|
30,500 |
|
|
Busted | |
|
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