Hand #53: Jared Hamby limped in from first position, Jamie Armstrong called on the button, and Trevor Pope shoved in the big blind. Hamby and Armstrong both folded.
Hand #54: David Vamplew was first to act, and moved all in for 525,000. No one called.
Hand #55: Armstrong opened to 80,000 in first position, Pope three-bet to 150,000 on the button, and Armstrong four-bet shoved for 895,000. Pope folded.
Hand #56: Trevor Pope raised to 80,000 in the cutoff, and Jared Hamby moved all in for 525,000 on the button. The action folded back to Pope, who folded.
Hand #57: Pope was first to act, and raised to 80,000. Darryll Fish defended his big blind, then check-folded to a bet of 40,000 on a flop of .
Hand #58: Jamie Armstrong raised to 80,000 on the button, Fish three-bet shoved for 600,000 out of the small blind, and Armstrong quickly called.
Fish:
Armstrong:
There flop came , giving Fish a set of sevens, and sending Armstrong's rail into a chorus of groans. Fish held as the turn and river came , , and he doubled to 1.265 million chips. Armstrong was crippled to 453,000.
Hand #59: Darryll Fish raised to 80,000 on the button, and both blinds released.
Hand #60: Jamie Armstrong was first to act, and moved all in for 443,000. The action folded to David Vamplew, who called in the big blind.
Armstrong:
Vamplew:
The dealer rapped the table, burned a card, dealt three more facedown, then started to fan the flop. The peaked through the window, and Armstrong's friends cheered, but it was followed by the and the .
The cheers quickly turned to groans.
Members of the rail called for another three or running cards to make a wheel, but the turn () and river () were both bricks. Armstrong was eliminated in fifth place, earning $112,695.
Hand #73: Trevor Pope raised to 80,000 in the cutoff, winning the blinds and antes.
Hand #74: Darryll Fish completed from the small blind, Pope raised to 125,000 in the big blind, and Fish folded.
Hand #75: David Vamplew raised to 80,000 out of the cutoff, Pope three-bet to 155,000 out of the small blind, and Vamplew four-bet shoved for 815,000. Pope folded.