Craig Love invested all but the last 6,000 out of the small blind and was looked up by Amnon Filippi. Both discarded two cards each and Love moved all-in, which Filippi called.
In the following two draws, players first took two each followed by one each on the final draw. Filippi rolled over his and Love was sweating with the . He peeled the final card which happened to be a and that sent Love out in 38th place.
Donny Rubinstein had pushed his last remaining chips in the pot and took one card on his final draw. Vladimir Peck called and drew one as well. After all the dust had settled, it was Peck that was the victor with a ten-seven-trey-deuce Badugi, and he was awarded the pot, while Rubinstein was eliminated on the money bubble.
With 38 players now remaining, each player will receive a minimum cash of $4,097 when they bust out of the tournament.
Amnon Filippi raised on the button and called a three-bet by Carol Fuchs in the small blind. Fuchs discarded one card and Filippi took two new cards. Filippi bet and Fuchs check-called. Fuchs discarded one and Filippi stood pat to see Fuchs check-call another bet.
Both then patted on the final draw and checked it down. Fuchs rolled over the for an eighty-six and Filippi mucked.
After the first drawing round, Hal Rotholz bet and earned calls from Jason Daly, Joao Vieira and Mike Gorodinsky. Rotholz, Daly and Gorodinsky took one card each while Vieira took two. Rotholz checked and Daly did so as well. Vieira bet, Gorodinsky called and Rozholz then raised to force out Daly and Vieira. Gorodinsky wanted to see one more draw and came along to discard one card while Rotholz patted.
The action then concluded with a bet from Rotholz and Gorodinsky folded.
Three bet action by Johannes Becker was called by Jason Daly and the two headed to the first draw.
The first draw saw Daly draw two cards, and Becker took one and bet out; Daly called.
The second draw Daly drew one and Becker stood pat and fired once again. He was called by Daly.
The third and final draw saw Daly take one card and Becker stood pat. This time, however, it was Daly who fired out a bet and Becker called. Becker was shown the bad news as Daly tabled for a nut wheel and was awarded the pot.
Nicholas Seiken and Scott Abrams discarded two each and the former bet, Abrams called. Both then discarded one each and again, Seiken bet and Abrams called as one of the shorter stacks on the bubble. Abrams patted and Seiken took one more card on the final draw.
Two players busted on table 421 in Brandon Wong and Andrew Kelsall. The elimination of the latter sent the tournament into hand-for-hand mode on the money bubble as he lost the remainder of his short stack to Noah Bronstein.
The draws were completed as Bronstein rolled over the for an eighty-five. Kelsall only had the and came up shy of the money.
With 39 players remaining in the tournament, the tournament director has called for all of the dealers to hold up and stop dealing so that hand for hand play can begin. The money bubble will burst at 38 players; after one more player is eliminated from the tournament.