Amal Bounahra and Anna Khait have been sent to the rail as both her seats are now occupied by someone else. As for Khait, there was an all in with pocket jacks and David Stamm moved all in himself as well with .
Khait waited just for that with pocket aces behind but two queens appeared on the flop to take away most of her stack. She was unable to spin that up anymore and is out.
A short stack moved all in for 11,600 and Laurence Grondin called that out of the small blind with another 10,000 behind. In the big blind, Mark Wahba moved all in and the Canadian called off with . The short stack had and Wahba had that both beat with . Nobody hit anything on a dry board and Grondin has been eliminated whereas Wahba shoots to the top of the chip counts.
We currently have 216 players left and 171 will be in the money. At the pace we are losing players at the moment, the bubble should be reached towards the end of level 10 or early in level 11. Once we are in the money, it is very likely that the floodgates will open to see a plethora of eliminations for a min cash.
Keith Ferrera ran into a bit of resistance on the last couple of hands. On a flop of Ferrera bet 1,700 and got called by seat one in the cut-off. They both checked the turn and on the river Ferrera checked and folded to a bet.
On the next hand he opened for 1,600 and the same player called in position again. The flop was , another paired board. Ferrera bet 2,400 this time but folded to a raise from seat one.
Ferrera decided not to make it a hat trick of raises and folded the next hand.
A French opponent asked Joe Ebanks after the river if he had called when he would have moved all in. Ebanks shook his head and then raked in the chips with as winning hand. Another player on the table asked "You really bet on that flop?" Why not, he had a gutshot.
It was a decent sized pot that caused a roller coaster of emotions for the opponent of Mark Wahba, who was at risk for his last 22,600 chips on the turn. Mark Wahba only flat called his min-raise and then the check-raise from Dom Fernandes on the flop to push all in after the turn.
Fernandes held the best starting hand in Texas Hold'em with the , but Wahba improved with the on the turn. The river completed the board and Wahba lost about 20% of his stack.