The $250 Frenzy is down to 5 players after a furry of eliminations early on. Action has slowed down a little since we entered 5-handed poker, as players are quite deep at this point. The average stack is hovering around 30 big blinds at the start of this level, and all 5 players have shown they have what it takes to win this, so it’s still anyones game.

Here is a look at the chip distribution, as we enter level 33.

Rami Hammoud

Action folded around to Michael Korovine on the button, who opened to 350,000. Santos Ciulla, sitting in the big blind, 3bet all-in, and found a call from Michael.

Michael:
Santos:

Santos only had Michael covered by 85,000 in the hand, so they were both virtually flipping for their tournament life. It was Michael who ended up on top however, as he paired on the board to win the 7.3 million chip pot.

Santos was eliminated on the very next hand.

6th place: Santos Ciulla – $12,450

Santos Ciulla

Shane St John was our next casualty on this final table, as he moved in with , only to get called by Andonios Papageorgiou with .

The community cards brought no help to Shane, and the board was the last Shane would see in this tournament.

7th place: Shane St John – $9,140

Shane St John

Bryce Potter, who came into Day 3 as the chip leader, has just been eliminated off of this final table in 8th place.

On a board showing , he found himself all-in and far behind table opponent Tomas Larivee Magni, who flopped a set of tens with . Bryce still had outs, holding the , but couldn’t find a queen with the running and to end his Event 3 run in 8th place.

8th place: Bryce Potter – $6,209

Bryce Potter

Santos Ciulla took a big hit to his stack moments ago before regaining some momentum and scoring an elimination.

In the first hand, Santos open-shoved his massive stack from early position, and found a snap call from Andonios Papageorgiou next to act. Santos and his finished second best to Andonios and his , forcing him to slide over 3,400,000 chips to his neighbour.

On the very next hand, Santos opened to 500,000, and called off the all-in from Andrew Boujaoude in late position.

Santos:
Andrew:

This time Santos came out the winner, as the board ran , and he picked up almost 2 million more chips.

9th place: Andrew Boujaoude – $4,820

Andrew Boujaoude

Norman Messier came to this final table as the short stack, and it didn’t take long before he found himself with all his chips in the middle.

Once action folded around to him in the cutoff, he moved in his remaining 850,000 with , and found a call from Santos Ciulla on the button. Both players in the blinds folded their cards, leaving the two heads-up.

The board of brought no help to Norman, who was awarded $3,925 for his 10th place run.

10th place: Norman Messier – $3,925

Norman Messier