Badziakouski Busts Trickett, Cheng Busts Dwan

There have been two more casualties, both from the same table interestingly enough, and the remaining 18 players are just 10 bust outs away from the money.

The United Kingdom’s Sam Trickett was the first to fall at the hands of Mikita Badziakouski and tablemate Steffen Sontheimer was kind enough to fill us in on the details.

“Mikita raised big from the button,’ said Sontheimer, ‘and Sam shoved for 33 big blinds and this fish,’ [points to Badziakouski] ‘had no idea what to do.” Sontheimer joked, giving Badziakouski a friendly needle.

Badziakouski eventually made the call with pocket fives and Trickett had ace-queen and lost the race for his tournament life while Badziakouski stacked up to over 1.65 million.

“Maybe say I had eights,’ Badziakouski quipped, ‘it will look better,” the Belarusian said with a cheeky grin.

Tom Dwan departed shortly afterward after losing a blind on blind battle against Tony Cheng. The US player moved all-in from the small blind with and Cheng made the call with , which held to bring Dwan’s Main Event to an end while Cheng stacked up to 680,000.