The players remaining seemed to be settling in for a decent 3-handed session, but it didn’t happen as just 5 or 6 hands in Fabio Luongo found himself facing an all-in bet of less than 600K holding the nut flush draw and and what he was pretty sure was an over card with 2 cards to come. Fabio called.

Fabio:
Alain:

The flop that brought on the all-in and the call was and then once the chips were in the middle the was a blank but the was just what Fabio hoped for.

Play is now heads up for the Championship.

3rd place, Alain J C Chauvette, $22,260

Alain Joseph Clement Chauvette

There were two very short-stacked players coming back from the break and they have both been eliminated in the first 10 minutes of level 25.

First to go was Jonathan Schaler, who resumed play after the break with just 315,000 chips. He was eliminated by Fabio Luongo, whose outflopped Jonathan’s when the community cards came .

Next to go was Alexander James Allison – known to his friends simply as “Cheese” who open shoved on the button with and quickly learned that Alain Chauvette was sitting in the bb with . There weren’t a lot of ways the board could be dealt that would even give Alain a sweat, but the in addition to the turn brought some chop possibilities as well as a gunshot for Alexander – but the removed all doubt and Alexander was sent to the Tournament Desk to get his payout coupon.

4th place, Alexander James Allison, $16,490

Alexander James Allison

5th place, Jonathan Schaler, $12,380

Jonathan Schaler

Robert Taylor had just re-built his stack to where he needed it to be to continue playing his active game, but unfortunately for Robert, it ended up just being more chips for Fabio Luongo to take off him in a hand they just played.

When we got to the table there was an all-in from Fabio and Robert had called – and the cards were tabled:

Fabio:
Robert:

Fabio’s Aces were good on a board that ran out .

7th place: Robert Taylor, $8,220

Robert Taylor

Mau Le Ho Tran and Sammy Popatia just waged a preflop raising war that saw Tran get it in with the best – but nevertheless ended up out of the tournament in 8th place.

Sammy opened the action to 42K utg and it folded around to Tran in the bb who raised to 120K. Sammy then re-raised all-in and found a call from Tran.

Sammy:
Tran:

Right away the writing was on the wall for Tran on the flop of , although Sammy still had to get all the way there – 2/3s wasn’t enough. The on the turn was enough, and the on the river just twisted the blade a little.

8th place: Mau Le Ho Tran, $6,590

Mau Le Ho Tran

Brian Iseman has been eliminated in 9th place in a hand that could have deep repercussions for the whole rest of the tournament.

Alain Chauvette opened the action with a raise to 100K and Brian raised all-in. It folded around and Alain made the call.

Alain:
Brian:

While the cards were being turned over, Fabio made it known that he had folded Ace-King, which seemed like a shock to some of the other players.

In any case, the community cards were all wrong for Brian – the flop of put him deep in a hole to Alain’s suck out and the baby cards on the turn and river weren’t the solution.

Alain added significantly to his stack on the hand, but it remains to be seen if the largest impact of this hand will be that Fabio saved a significant stack and therefore remained among the leaders at the table.

9th place: Brian R Iseman, $4,930.00

Brian Iseman

There are just 10 players remaining in Event 5 as Deron Noksana, who had been nursing a tiny stack for hours, was finally eliminated in 11th place.

By the time of his elimination hand he only had 57K in chips – just over 3bb – and although he had waited for a hand – he flipped over – he also learned the dangers of making it profitable for a player to call with any two cards. In this case, Gameboy (aka Vi Thanh Tony To) shrugged and called with .

The board runout was no good for Deron: for treys up and he was out in 11th.

11th place, Deron Noksana, $3,600

Deron Noksana