With 140 players left in the room, and 138 scheduled to get paid, the tournament staff paused the clock and had the dealers wait to deal as the tournament went “hand-for-hand”.  It took almost 25 minutes for the first bustout to take place, which happened on table 23.  Tai Sum was down to 10 bigs when he looked down at , and he couldn’t have been any happier, knowing he had one of the top hands in tournament poker. Action folded to Michael Khan in the small blind, who shoved to isolate.  Michael was holding , and with his 400,000+ stack, he felt pretty confident that it was the right move. The big blind folded.

Tai was stoked to see that he was out in front, at least for now. Once the floor gave the dealer the go ahead to spread out a board, the dealer fanned out the most disastrous flop possible for Sum.

Flop: , givng Michael trip Q’s. There was still hope for Sum as tournament players know, there is almost always a sweat; he just needed a 10 to make broadway.
Turn:
River:

Sum just shook his head as he exited the tournament in 140th position.

The tournament was now on the stone cold bubble. It took another five to ten minutes until the bubble hand was dealt on table 32. Sebastien Laviolette looked down at and moved his chips (about 97,000) into the middle. Action folded to Samuel Charpentier, who thought about it for a moment and then decided to flat call. Everyone else moved out of the way.

Samuel:
Flop: and Samuel had hit his ace to move out in front. The on the turn and the on the river were of no help to Sebastien, who needed a 9 to stay alive.

Sebastien exited as the Event #1 bubble boy, and just like that, the rest of the players were in the money.