Double Bubble

On the first deal of hand-for-hand play, with 47 players remaining and two of them destined to walk away empty-handed, there were two eliminations at opposite corners of the room.

Over on Table 3, a short-stacked player moved all in out of the small blind with , and Danny Lala looked him up from the big blind with . The flop fell , giving the player backdoor straight and flush draws, and the kept the former alive.

It also gave Lala a pair of kings, however, leaving the player with only four-outs to make a king-high straight.

Unfortunately for him, the on the river wasn't one of them, and he was eliminated.

At the other corner of the room, Craig Brobyn opened to 18,000 on the button, a player in the small blind moved all in for 31,000, and Brobyn tabled 8d8h. The player was racing with AcKc, and flopped a pair of kings, but the first three community cards - - also gave Brobyn a set of nines.