The immediate post-bubble-burst period in any tournament is almost an event-within-the-event, as players who don’t feel they’re in a position to challenge for the lead choose instead to take their profits and move to the next game. It’s almost always the highest eliminations-per-hour periods in any tournament.

Here are some of the players eliminated since the bubble burst less than an hour ago:

• Carlo Nini
• Harrison Gimbel
• Adam Owen
• Charles-Alexandre Sylvestre
• Alexander Lynskey
• Chanracy Khun
• Victor Ramdin
• Shannon Shorr
• Tomas Fara
• Eric Afriat

Each has cashed for $10,000 – though more than one player is certain to take their $10K in winnings, add $300 and join right in the MILLIONS Finale!

Play had been hand for hand for a while, through almost a full level and a 15-minute break. After the break, three tables had a player at risk, and they waited for all other tables to finish their hand before tabling the cards.

On table 67, Jérémy Ménard bump raised to 400K, and 2 players called, including short stack Andrejevic Andjelko. Andjelko check raised Stephen Michael Diamantas all-in on a flop.

Diamantas:
Andjelko:

Andjelko did not manage to catch an ace, and was eliminated. Fortunately for him, Ardavan Yazdi also fell in combat on another table.

They both share the 250th prize, which means they got $5,000 each for their Day 3 appearance. In the following few minutes, 25 players lost their chips trying to build back up, with a $10,000 security prize.

Photographs taken during level 18 of the MILLIONS North America Main Event: 

Eliminations have been coming at a steady pace throughout the first level and a half played today – and even more so since the introduction of the shot clock – and with 252 players remaining, the Tournament Director has called for hand-for-hand action to begin.

There will be a scheduled break a few minute into hand-for-hand play, and the clock will continue running through the 2 or 3 hands it takes to get to the break.

Photographs taken during level 17: