After losing the vast majority of his stack, Ben Volpe open-shoved on the button with , and Lee Markholt looked him up in the small blind with .

The dealer fanned giving Markholt a pair of kings and both players identical straight draws, and the turn was the . Volpe could no longer win the pot, and only an ace or queen on the river would keep him alive via a chop.

It was not to be as the bricked off on the river, and Volpe was eliminated.