Mikael Thuritz Eliminated in 5th Place ($272,084)
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Under the gun, Dan Kelly raised to 125,000, and Mikael Thuritz (button) and Jason Someville (big blind) both came along with the calls.
Three-handed, the flop rolled out 
. Somerville and Kelly checked, and Thuritz took his cue to fire 220,000 at the pot. That got rid of Somerville quickly, but Kelly took his pause to consider. He craned his neck to eye up Thuritz's stack, and he stacked out a check-raise to 600,000 and slid forward. Thuritz didn't waste much time announcing an all in for 1,605,000 total, and Kelly snap-called to put him at risk.
Showdown
Kelly: 
Thuritz: 
The crowd rose to their feet and jockeyed for elbow room along the rail to catch a glimpse of the next two board cards. There was some assorted shouting from the opposing sides of the room, and someone next to us yelled, "100% you got this, Dan!"
Turn: 
. "Oh my god, it's a seven!" someone else yelled. That card was a beautiful sweat, giving Kelly some more outs to fill his open-ended straight.
River: 
. That's what the chip leader was looking for, a fifth heart for the knockout flush.
He did what he could to avoid the Dan Kelly freight train, but Mikael Thuritz has met his demise in 5th place. It's certainly not what he was hoping for this afternoon, but he's got more than a quarter-million dollars to try and console him when this eventually sinks in.
Kelly is now up around 7.5 million in chips, and we'll have to wait for him to finish reconstructing his towers before we can grab a more accurate count.