John Racener has the button in Seat 7.
Joseph Cheong takes his second walk of the day in the big blind.
John Racener has the button in Seat 7.
Joseph Cheong takes his second walk of the day in the big blind.
Michael Mizrachi has the button in Seat 5.
Play folds all the way over to John Racener in the small blind and he makes the call, completing the bet. Filippo Candio raises all in and Racener mucks.
Jonathan Duhamel has the button in Seat 4.
John Racener gets a walk in the big blind.
Joseph Cheong has the button in Seat 2.
Under the gun, John Racener raises to 2.3 million, and he finds action as Michael Mizrachi calls from the big blind.
Heads up, the flop comes , and it checks through to the turn. Racener must have been sensing something on the flop because Mizrachi's 2.5-million chip bet drew an immediate fold.
Filippo Candio has the button in Seat 8.
Action folds to Candio and he raises to two million. Jonathan Duhamel reraises from the big blind to 5.6 million. Candio quickly moves all in and Duhamel quickly folds.
John Racener has the button in Seat 7.
Racener raises to 2.2 million and takes down the blinds and antes.
Michael Mizrachi has the button in Seat 5.
Joseph Cheong raises to 2 million straight, but that's not going to get it done. Mizrachi announces a reraise, and he makes it 6.4 million to go. When the blinds fold, Cheong's cards follow theirs into the pot, and Mizrachi takes down another preflop pot.
Jonathan Duhamel has the button in Seat 4.
Joseph Cheong raises to two million from the cutoff seat and actions folds over to John Racener in the big blind. Racener makes the call and the flop comes down .
Racener checks the flop to Cheong. He bets one million and Racener folds.
There is a dead button in Seat 3.
Michael Mizrachi gets a walk.
Joseph Cheong has the button in Seat 2.
John Dolan moves his short stack all in from the small blind and Jonathan Duhamel makes the call in the big blind.
Dolan:
Duhamel:
A bewildered look comes across Dolan's face, and he seems thrilled to be racing with his meager queen-five. Let's see if he can connect with the board to stay alive.
The flop brings , and it takes an awkward moment of silence for everyone to realize that it didn't change anything. The on the turn, however, puts the possibility of a split pot into play as Dolan picks up nine more outs (16 total) to survive.
He can not. The lands on the river, and that's a swing and a miss for the at-risk player. John Dolan's Main Event has come to an end in 6th place, and he'll pick up almost a million extra dollars to add to 9th-place money on his way out the door.