We missed the brutal details, but Harold Kizzire was the first player eliminated from our final two tables, after John Holley rivered a flush to crack his .
With the board reading , and over 475,000 already in the pot, Barry Bashist moved all in to put James Miller to a test for a ton of chips.
Miller went into the tank for several minutes, before finally convincing himself to call with in the hope that Bashist was only on a draw.
With , however, Bashist's hand was made, and it held up through the turn () and river (}. This double pushed Bashist over the million chip mark, while Miller dropped to just over 700,000 with the misread.
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We came in on the action with Kenneth Lind calling the all in of Jo Ianello with a flop of on the board. Lind had for top pair and a flush draw and Ianello tabled for two pair.
Ianello survived the turn but the river completed Lind's draw, eliminating Ianello in 20th place. Lind told us he was in the hand by mistake because he thought he was the big blind when he put his initial call into the pot. Lucky for Lind he didn't give up once the mistake was made.
After making it 100,000 to play with , Barry Bashist heard the words he wanted to hear.
"I'm all-in," declared Tim McCarthy, moving his last 310,000 forward for the all in bet.
When the original raiser got out of the way, Bashist snap-called, telling McCarthy and the dealer "don't do it to me again" as McCarthy had recently cracked a previous pair of aces with ace-nine suited, flopping the flush.
McCarthy turned over his and hoped to crack the aces for a second time, but no miracles arrived on the board, sending home on the second-best hand in Hold'em.