Marco Traniello has folded all the way down to 4,000 chips. He will be the big blind shortly, meaning he will either be increasing his stack or exiting the tournament area.
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Action folded to Dimitar Danchev's button here on the bubble and he popped it up to 6,000. It came to Mark Herm in the big blind and he made it 12,500 to go. Danchev then tanked for roughly a minute before four-betting to 28,000. Herm took a bit before coming right back over the top with a five-bet to 44,500. Danchev took some time and then finally folded his hand, allowing the pot to be pushed to Herm.
Marco Traniello posted the big blind of 3,000, leaving a single yellow T1,000 chip behind. JJ Liu raised to 8,000 from early position, and the action folded to Traniello.
"One more hand," he said, folding so that the table could see the .
On the next hand he was in for less than the small blind. The action folded to him, and he showed . Paul Volpe, who was in the big blind, kept his cards hidden, but told Mark Herm that he has "burgers."
"Chirp's got burgers," Herm told Jason Mercier.
"What are burgers?" Mercier asked.
Over on an adjacent table, Dan Kelly and Steven Kelly were heads up on a board of . Dan checked to Steven who fired out 22,500. Dan check-potted, basically going all in, and Steven folded.
Volpe was finally allowed to reveal his burgers - - and the flop fell . The on the turn gave Traniello a gut-shot straight draw, but Volpe held two deuces and Herm admitted to "folding a burger."
Low and behold the case burger - the - completed the board, and Traniello doubled to 2,000.
After folding for almost two hours, Marco Traniello was forced all in for his last 2,000 when his blind came around for less than the (3,000) big blind. Dimitar Danchev called from the cutoff and Mark Herm completed from the small blind.
Both Herm and Danchev checked down the flop (), turn (), and the river (). but the action was forced to halt before cards were turned over because adjacent tables still had action. At the next table over, Ted Lawson was not aware that this was occurring, because he sat with action on his hand until he chirped up and asked the floor why the hands hadn't been tabled yet. When he learned that they would be shown once action was completed at all tables, he finally decided to fold his hand. A moment later, the hand at his table came to a close and the hands were tabled.
Traniello showed for trip nines, but both of his opponents had a spade for the flush. Herm showed but was bested by Danchev's . Danchev scooped the pot, Traniello became the bubble boy, and the entire field went on break.
They will return in twenty minutes and do a full re-draw for the final three tables.
A short-stacked Amit Makhija was all in before the flop holding and racing against Jesse Martin's .
Martin took the lead on the flop and never released it as the gave him two pair on the turn and the finished off the board on the river. Makhija was the first player to leave with cash and will collect $7,881 in prize money.