In an exciting turns of events, two players were just eliminated on back-to-back hands at the same table.
Now that the blinds have reached 40K/80K, pre-flop all ins had become the only option for a number of players. On the first hand, Vivo L, seated in the cut off, moved all in for roughly one million in chips. The player on the button made a painstaking fold after calling time on himself before the action made it to the big blind, Shawn S, who quickly made the call.
Shawn:
Vivo:
Board:
And with that Vivo was eliminated in thirteenth place, earning him $1,720.
On the following hand, another pre-flop all in occurred between Ryan Lashmar and Mathieu Daigneault.
Lashmar, who was low on chips, tried to steal the blinds from early position by moving all in with . But Daigneault woke up with and made the easy isolation raise by moving all in. The board ran out ace high, and the king kicker sent Lashmar to the rail. He will take home $2,160 for his eleventh place finish.