Antonio Buonanno Eliminated in 17th Place (€16,000)
The Day Four rollercoaster which dropped Antonio Buonanno only to raise him back up just as quickly has come off the rails and crashed him out of the tournament. It's been an exciting ride, but the final part of the journey was clearly disappointing for the Italian, who made a stand preflop with , called by chip monster Kontantinos Nanos with . The whole pot was only 200k, but as he's demonstrated before, that could have been enough to start a comeback.
Nanos told the dealer that he didn't need threes, "Just a split pot!"
It certainly looked like that would be the probable outcome, as the board ran out ......but the river was the and Nanos shook Buonanno's hand with a sympathetic frown on his face (although it's never genuinely depressing to stack another player's chips).