DJ MacKinnon Eliminated in 5th Place ($77,491)
Nível 25
: 15,000/30,000, 5,000 ante
Hand #102: Taylor Paur made it 60,000 under-the-gun and everybody folded.
Hand #103: DJ MacKinnon opened the button for 65,000 and from the small blind Taylor Paur raised it up to 140,000. As Weiss folded, MacKinnon took a glance at Barlow's short stack. That didn't prevent him from shoving all in though and unfortunately for him, he was met with a snap call.
MacKinnon showed his 
but was up against the only better starting hand available: 
. The board didn't do him any good, by the time the dealer was getting the river out there he only had one out left, and didn't hit: 
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for a rivered top pair. Barlow mucked his cards but the dealer tabled them anyway because it was an all in and a call situation. Barlow was rivered with his 
and had to leave the tournament.
and Paur made a 85,000 continuation-bet. Nguyen looked at his chips and then cut out 210,000 for a raise. Paur moved him all in and Nguyen immediately made the call for his 930,000 total stack.
. Both had a flush draw but Paur's was just a little better. The 
on the turn gave both players a flush but Paur's wasn't sure to be seating heads up yet. The 
could still ruin the party and for a second the rail and players thought it hit the river. The 
was close, but no cigar, for Nguyen who exited in third place.
improving Paur to trip aces, and his rail went nuts! However, the noise soon lowered when everyone realised Weiss had picked up a club flush draw. The river was red, it was the 