Eights Elevate ElkY (A Little)
Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier folded his way through most of Level 5, and found himself down to just over a couple of orbits' worth of chips here at the start of Level 6 -- less than 3,000. Finally a hand arose in which a middle position player opened for a raise, then Grospellier tossed in his small stack from the cutoff. The others folded, the raiser called, Grospellier flipped over , and his opponent showed .
The board ran out , and ElkY's eights remained best.
Not long after that hand, Grospellier open-shoved and received no callers, picking up the blinds and antes. He's still super short, though, with 7,800.