David Haiman Eliminated in 10th Place ($26,192)
Here at the secondary feature table -- under the spotlights and amid the nonstop cheering over in the "mothership" -- a blind-vs.-blind confrontation just developed between David Haiman (SB) and Jean Luc Marais (BB).
It having folded to him, Haiman raised to 62,000 from the small blind. Marais checked his cards, deliberated about a half-minute, then slid out some green (25K) chips to make it 200,000 to go. Haiman thought a beat, then announced he was all in, and Marais called.
Haiman showed 
and Marais 
. The flop came 
, giving both pairs of aces but Marais a dominating second pair of treys. The turn was the 
and river the 
, and we are down to the official nine-handed final table.
The Frenchman Marais looks to be our chip leader to begin the final table proceedings with over 1.8 million.