Two Simultaneous Eliminations Bring About the Final Table

Hand #1: In Level 21 with blinds of 4,000/8,000 and an ante of 1,000, Frank "thewholefunk" Funaro raised to 16,000 under the gun and "Q8kicksass" re-shoved for their last 28,116 from the cutoff. Action folded back to Funaro and he called.

"Q8kicksass":
Frank "thewholefunk" Funaro:

A king on the flop left "Q8kicksass" drawing thin and another one on the turn reduced their chances to zero. The river came to finish the runout and make the hand official, eliminating them from the tournament in 11th place.

Hand #2: On the other table at the same time, action folded to Sridhar "sri100k" Sangannagari in the small blind and he open-jammed for the 139,934 effective that remained in Dan "AvaGray" Lupo's stack in the big blind. Lupo called.

Dan "AvaGray" Lupo:
Sridhar "sri100k" Sangannagari:

Lupo needed to hold and instead saw a flop of leave him drawing incredibly thin. The turn gave him four chop outs, but he missed by one pip as the river came to leave his hand no good and result in him bubbling the final table as the 10th place finisher for the event.