Alex Brandstatter started the day with one of the larger stacks in the tournament but along the way took a pretty bad beat holding pocket Jacks and was crippled down to under 10bb.
His ultimate hand came after some patient waiting. Norman Messier opened to 200K and it folded around to Alec in the SB who went all-in for about double the opening raise. The big blind folded and Norman made the call.
Alec: 
Norman: 
Alec had a real hand, and had his opponent dominated – but the 
on the flop removed his preflop advantage and the 
that filled out the community cards didn’t help at all.
Play on Table 39 has now been suspended and those players have been moved to open seats on the two remaining tables in the tourney.
19th place: Alec Brandstatter, $2,000
Alec Brandstatter
