Here’s how the last 6 eliminations leading up to the final table happened.

• 11th place: Miguel Goncalo, $1,485

After a tough few orbits, where Miguel saw his 2.5M chip stack dwindle down to just under 600K, he went all-in when it was folded around to his button. Christopher Rassi, sitting in the big blind with a healthy 2M+ stack, isolated by raising Miguel’s all-in. Once heads-up, Miguel turned over , and was going to need some help from the poker gods if he was going to crack Chris’ . Unfortunately for him, the board came , and he bubbled the final table.

• 12th place: Andrew Graham, $1,485

After losing just under 1.2M to Christopher Shakell a few hands earlier, where Andrew’s fell second best to Chris’ on a board, Andrew got his remaining 300K in with versus the of, once again, Christopher. The board held in favor of Christopher’s hand, and Andrew got eliminated in 12th.

• 13th place: Dany Madri, $1,295

Troy Hamilton went all-in from the button in an unopened pot, and Dany, who was sitting in the small blind, made the quick call. He was covered by Troy, but had the better hand. His was far ahead of Troy’s , but when the flop came , Dany needed some help. The turn and river showed and , thus eliminating Dany in 13th place.

• 14th place: Matthew Brunskole, $1,295

After surviving a few orbits with a short stack, Matthew finally got his last 3 big blinds from the high-jack position in an unopened pot, and got called by both blinds. The hand was checked down to the end, and Miguel tabled for two-pair on a board, and the two other players mucked, busting Matthew on the hand.

• 15th place: Alex Fiorani, $1,295

Alex fell shortstack after getting crippled by Alexandros Fixmer, who held a pair of queens versus Fiorani’s A7. He later got his last few chips in with in a four way pot, but was crushed by Evgeni’s , who isolated on a flop. The turn was the , which was the only thing that could potentially have helped Alex, but the river sent him home.

• 16th place: Tina Frascarelli, $1,130

With around 7 big blinds left, Tina took advantage of an unopened pot to go all-in from the high-jack position with 395K. Miguel, sitting in the cut-off with roughly 1.7M, made the call, and the other players folded behind.

Tina turned over , and found herself behind Miguel’s . The board was no help to her, reading , and Tina’s deep run came to an end.

After doing some rough chip counts during the break, we found 5 players who are over the 1 million chip mark.

1. 1.56M – Evgeni Ozadovski
2. 1.55M – Russel Turner
3. 1.42M – Troy Hamilton
4. 1.2M – Alexandros Fixmer
5. 1.05M – Marko