Messick Scores a Knockout

With one shorter stack already at risk and a side pot of 30,000 to the turn, Jonathan Woof checked to Ryan Messick and the table big stack made it 22,000 to go. "What do you have?" his sole active opponent sighed before he settled on a fold.

Messick tabled the for nines full and the all-in player was drawing dead with the to make the river a formality.

The player in the nine seat was trying to rub off some of the run good, to which Messick joked "at least give me a longer massage". One hand later, the very same player opened to 2,400. Messick, now in the big blind, three-bet to 9,600 and took down the next pot.

In the meanwhile, Angelina Rich was eliminated from one table over to reduce the field further.