There was a passage of 4 hands on Table 36 that brought the field to 18 players and the redraw – although it was 3 hands after everyone initially thought.
Hand 1
Some blind-on-blind action to start. Ari Engel – who started the day short stacked and was still quite short – raised to 37K. Robert Taylor responded to the seeming steal attempt by raising all in, and Ari quickly called.
Robert: 
Ari: 
Ari’s King-high held up on the following board: 
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Robert was convinced he’d been eliminated in the hand, and made it all of the way to the Tournament Desk to pick up his payout coupon before he was informed that he still had just over 20K in chips left – so he returned to the table to continue play.
Hand 2
Action folds around to Ari on the button and he opens all-in. Robert calls with his very short stack and the big blind folds. Ari holds 
while Robert has 
. The board runs out 
to give Robert virtually a quadruple up once the blinds and antes are considered.
Hand 3
There is a raise and everyone folds – and apparently Robert feels he has enough chips to fold.
Hand 4
Robert successfully ladders up at least one payout position as Geoffrey Robert McNeely gets it in on the 
flop against Michael Wang. However, Michael has the better kicker with his 
compared with Geoff’s 
. The turn and river are dealt: 
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19th place: Geoffrey Robert McNeely, $1,990
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- Geoffrey Robert McNeely
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- Michael Wang