Leonardo Pires Eliminated in 13th Place ($45,860)

"Anyone smell a meltdown?" Matt Broughton asked on the live stream. It pretty much summed up Leonardo Pires' last 90 minutes.

After being crippled in the last hand of Level 25,everyone wondered whether he'd be able to recover after the break. He didn't make the crowd wait long to find out the answer.

In the first hand back from break, Mike Watson raised to 90,000 from the hijack and Ken Demlakian called from the cutoff. When action reached Pires in the big blind, he just moved all in for 1.65 million. Watson shoved all in over the top and Demlakian got out of the way.

Watson:
Pires:

Pires opted to shove with a weak hand, but he got a sweat when the flop paired his three. Unfortunately for him, the spiked on the turn to leave him drawing dead to Watson's set.

The meaningless was put out on the river, and the start-of-the-day chip leader, who has been the overall chip leader the last couple of days, took his leave in 13th place for $45,860.