Ryan Hefter was spotted leaving the tournament area and a quick look over on table 83 confirmed that he had been eliminated. According to other players at the table, Hefter was short and his ace-eight failed to get there against the ace-king of Sasa Stancic.

The latter raised to 11,000 soon after and Jakob Miegel shoved for 49,000. Stancic eventually called with the and Miegel flipped over , the German also expressed his surprise that Stancic had not snap-called.

Miegel got a sweat on the flop, and while the turn was a blank, he got there thanks to the river.

One table over, James Akenhead raised to 11,500 and called the shove of short stack James Hoeppner in the cutoff.

James Hoeppner:
James Akenhead:

The board of locked up the double for Hoeppner by the turn already and Akenhead lost some of the chips he had just gained in the own previous double up.