Blinds: 60,000/120,000
Ted “roystalin” Ely and James ‘Bagels’ Lillis went heads up to a flop of 
. Ely checked to Lillis, and after he continued, Ely moved all in with 
. Lillis would call him with a dominating 
, and the 
turn meant that only another queen on the river would save Ely. The 
came instead, and Lillis scored the first knockout fo the final table.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
6,143,050
2,216,926
|
2,216,926 |
|
|
Busted |
. He was dominating the fives of "jaehoez24", and the hand was all but over after "pure_reason" flopped middle set. The turn left him drawing dead, and to rub some salt in the wounds, "jaehoez24" made a useless set of fives on the river.
, and he was flipping against the pocket eights of "Gohednpopoff." Both payers would hit the flop of 
, which would spell disaster for "ImSooNutz." A nine on the turn did give him some outs, but the river 
filled up "Gohednpopoff" instead. 
. "Gohednpopoff" checked to "ImSooNutz" who fired 210,000. "Gohednpopoff" put out a check raise to 650,000, and "ImSooNutz" called.
hit the turn, and "Gohednpopoff" immediately moved all in for 1.4 million and change. "ImSooNutz" thought for a while before folding, and "Gohednpopoff" scooped a big pot without a showdown.
, and the ladies would hold true on the runout of 
. 
