Among the first to bust after the money bubble had burst were Ronen Ohayon and Chang Luo. Ohayon's cards were already in the muck and Ismael Bojang scooped the pot. Ohayon initially celebrated with pocket fives before realizing that Bojang had completed a backdoor flush with .
Chang Luo was also sent to the rail after a three-way all in with Jiri Horak and Patrick Jukic. Luo had and Horak , while Jukic rolled over . The board came and that was it for Luo.
Jeremy Santos shoved his short stack and Geoffrey Hum reshoved for more from a few seats over. All other opponents got out of the way and Santos flipped over . Hum had the inferior pocket pair with and got there on the river of a board of .
Short stack James Hughes shoved for his last two big blinds and Justin Liberto pushed from the small blind to see Reinaldo Troconis also call it off with a short stack.
James Hughes:
Reinaldo Troconis:
Justin Liberto:
On the flop, Troconis cheered and said "stay low" while the turn gave Liberto a flush draw. Instead, it was the river that iomproved Liberto to knock out two opponents.
Eddy Sabat raised to 4,800 and saw two short stacks shove behind him in Kenneth Fusca with and Huey Hulin with the . Sabat had the far biggest stack of the trio and quickly called with .
The board ran out and the queens held up to reduce the field by two.
One hand later, the small blind shoved into the big blind of Dylan Linde, who called all in for 32,800 with . His opponent only had and the board came to let Linde double.
The tournament screens show 135 players remaining, which means almost 30 players were sent to the rail once the money bubble has burst. All other hopefuls are now enjoying 15 minutes away from the table and the T$100 chips will be raced off.
Mikhail Semin pushed for 22,000 from under the gun and Daniel Erlandsson called on the button before Ryan Arguello called all in for less from the small blind.
Semin:
Arguello:
Erlandsson:
The in the window was followed by the and the , and the turn and river changed nothing to result in yet another double elimination. Manig Loeser headed to the payout desk at the same time after running out of chips on a different table.
On the three-way flop of , Chad J Brown moved all in for 66,500 and Jed Friedman pushed over the top to force out Mike Vanier next to Brown.
Brown tabled for the gutshot and flush draw while Friedman had the . The turn immediately improved Brown to an unbeatable straight while the on the river was a mere formality.
Chad Holloway sits at the same table with a stack of around 70,000.