Jason Conforti was eliminated deep in this event in a spot all poker players dread to go broke in. Holding 
, he and Yan Nadeau got into a raising war preflop leading to an all-in and a call. Yan tabled a trailing 
, but flopped a set and held for the win on a 
board. Yan barely had his opponent covered, but scored the nearly 2-million chip pot to bring the field down to 24 players.
Maxime Heroux was crippled not long after, as he called Mike Mirand’s small blind open-shove from the big blind. He lost the flip holding 
to Mike’s 
, and saw a large portion of his stack get shifted to his neighbour. He has since successfully rebuild his stack, partially in a hand that lead to Rami Rached’s elimination.
Kenneth Robidoux opened the action, and Maxime moved in with less than 2bb from the small blind. Rami then 3bet all-in from the big blind, and Kenneth made the call.
Kenneth: 
Maxime: 
Rami: 
Maxime got the best of the 
flop to triple up, while Kenneth took the side pot, sending Rami out the door in 23rd.
A few hands later, Kenneth defended his big blind after Yang Guo opened from utg. On a flop, Kenneth open-shoved first to act, and found a quick call. He tabled 
for a flush draw, and saw he was drawing very slim versus the 
of his opponent. Kenneth was drawing dead once the turn brought the 
, and even deader when the river gave his opponent quads! He collected $950 for his run.
