Ashly Butler made it 40,000 in early position, and Kevin Eyster made the call in position. The flop came and Butler made it 45,000 to go. Eyster came along, and both players checked when the hit the turn. The river brought the , and Butler fired out 102,000. Eyster grabbed a stack of 100,000, and slid it in the middle.
Butler tabled , and Eyster mucked his hand. Butler bumped up to 1.5 million after that hand, while Eyster fell to 1.38 million.
Action folded around to Jonathan Taylor in the hijack, and he made it 40,000 to go. Lawrence Blazer was the lone caller from the big blind, and the dealer fanned out a flop of . Blazer checked to Taylor, who fired out 32,000. Blazer responded by check raising all in for 377,000 total, and Taylor tanked for about 30 seconds before giving his hand up.
That drops Taylor to 1.8 million, while Blazer is now up to 480,000.
Jonathan Taylor opened the action from under the gun +1 to 40,000. The next two players to act, Jerry Johnson and Allan Hedin, both called. It got to Isaac Kirchner in the cutoff, and he moved all in for his last 445,000.
Taylor and Johnson both got out of the way, but Hedin elected to make the call.
Hedin:
Kirchner:
It was a coinflip for Kirchner's tournament life, and the flop was a disaster, coming . Kirchner was now looking for one of the two remaining sevens, but they never came, as it completed and .
Kirchner will walk away with $13,135, while Hedin jumped up to 1.6 million.
There is a technical issue with the live streaming final table, so the players are staying at their current table until then. The cards are once again in the air.
We didn't catch the hand as it was happening, as we were working on getting photos up of the final table members, but we got filled in on what happened that led to Ting Ho busting just before the official final table.
The board read , and Ho and Jonathan Taylor got in a raising war that saw all the money go in. Ho had flopped a monster holding , but she was drawing very thin, as Taylor held .
Ho could only catch two cards in the deck for a straight flush, but it didn't happen, as the hit the river. Taylor took the pot to bump his stack up to 1.7 million, while Ho is the dubious final table bubble girl.
Action folded around to Bryan Campanello in the cutoff, and he moved all in for his last 400,000. Kevin Eyster looked him up in the small blind, and we had a race on our hands.
Eyster:
Campanello:
The board ran down , and Eyster collected the bounty, while Campanello will have to settle for 11th place.
The players are currently redrawing for seats at the unofficial final table.
It took about three hands for us to get our first all in of the day. Lawrence Blazer raised it up to 50,000 in the hijack, and when it got to Bryan Campanello on the button, he moved all in for his last 380,000. It got back to Blazer, and he spent about 45 seconds thinking before kicking his hand in.
Campanello jumped up to 445,000 after the hand, while Blazer fell to 360,000.
and Butler made it 45,000 to go. Eyster came along, and both players checked when the 
hit the turn. The river brought the 
, and Butler fired out 102,000. Eyster grabbed a stack of 100,000, and slid it in the middle.
, and Eyster mucked his hand. Butler bumped up to 1.5 million after that hand, while Eyster fell to 1.38 million.
. Blazer checked to Taylor, who fired out 32,000. Blazer responded by check raising all in for 377,000 total, and Taylor tanked for about 30 seconds before giving his hand up.
. Kirchner was now looking for one of the two remaining sevens, but they never came, as it completed 
and 
.
, and Ho and Jonathan Taylor got in a raising war that saw all the money go in. Ho had flopped a monster holding 
, but she was drawing very thin, as Taylor held 
hit the river. Taylor took the pot to bump his stack up to 1.7 million, while Ho is the dubious final table bubble girl.
, and Eyster collected the bounty, while Campanello will have to settle for 11th place.