Gerald Macleod moved in from the button for 2,075,000, putting Randy Khalil into the tank. After a moment of silence, he announced the call, but found himself far behind.

Gerald:

Randy:

The board changed nothing, reducing Randy’s stack to around 2 million.

Richard Figiel was eliminated shortly after the break, ending his deep run in 8th place, good for $4,740.

A few hands later, Frederic Mercier was auto-all-in from the big blind, as his stack dwindled to just 1BB. Jimmy Setna limped in from early position, but folded once Randy Khalil made it a flat 1 million from the small blind.

Frederic:

Randy:

Board:

Frederic tried to grind his way to a win, but was blinded out in 7th place. He still collected $6,690 for his efforts.

8th place: Richard Figiel – $4,740

7th place: Frederic Mercier – $6,690

Nick Petsas was in the big blind facing a raise of 325,000 from Gerald Macleod when he elected to move all-in for 1,505,000. Gerald made the call, and the two players tabled their hands.

Nick:

Gerald:

Nick was drawing to a number of outs when the turn gave him an open-ended straight draw, and a flush draw, but the blank river on the board brought us down to 8 players.

9th place: Nick Petsas – $3,590

Frederic Mercier seems to be a short-stack specialist, as he’s been grinding his short-stack this entire Day 3. He recently doubled his 2BB stack versus Randy Khalil in a battle of the blinds, and then found himself all-in in a three way pot versus Randy Khalil and Senthuran Vijayaratnam. The two chip leaders checked it down until showdown, where Frederic’s was best on a board, beating Randy’s and Senthuran’s . He is now a little over the 1,500,000 mark, which is the wealthiest he’s been all tournament!

After seeing a decent portion of his overwhelming chiplead get shipped here and there, Randy Khalil has bounced back on this final table of The $250 Frenzy to find himself once again on top of the leaderboard.

He is currently sitting on roughly 4,800,000, which doubles the average stack. Senthuran Vijayaratnam is second in chips, holding a stack just shy of 4,000,000.

Chris McClung, better known by his online surname “D0r1t0s”, is our first casualty on this final table of The $250 Frenzy. His stack was crippled to 35,000 as he called the button-shove of Glen Hammers from the big blind, and lost with versus the of Glen on a . He managed to rebuild it a little, running it up to 235,000 after winning one all-in, and chopping another, before finding himself all-in again, this time versus Ko Maddock. Chris’  was however crushed by the of Ko Maddock on a board, sending him to the cashiers in 10th place.

10th place: Chris McClung – $2,700

We just witnessed a huge flip happen between Randy Khalil and Senthuran Vijayaratnam which shifted the balance of the chip lead.

Randy opened to 300,000 from middle position, and was 3bet to 900,000 by Senthuran from the button. Randy took his shades off, peaked at Senthuran’s stack, which was of 2,715,000, and then announced the all-in. Senthuran threw in some calling chips, and it was flip for over 5.5 million chips!

Randy:

Senthuran:

Randy made 2 pairs on the flop, but Senthuran caught up on the turn, making a straight on the board to win the huge pot, and take over the chip lead, leaving Randy with around 3,700,000.

Shortly after, in a battle of the blinds, and with a board showing , Richard Fiegiel was all-in and called by Randy.

Randy:

Richard:

The turn and river ( ) changed nothing, and Richard doubled the 955,000 he had behind on the flop, reducing Randy’s stack to around 2,300,000, which is still slightly above average.

Chris McClung opened the action to 215,000 from middle position, and was followed by an all-in of 565,000 by Richard Figiel. The rest of the players got out of the way, and Chris committed the extra chips.

Chris:

Richard:

Community cards:

Here are the current chip counts of the final 10 players, as they enter level 30:

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Name,Chip Count [attr sort=desc]
Chris McClung,”2,055,000″
Richard Figiel,”595,000″
Randy Khalil,”6,430,000″
Frederic Mercier,”180,000″
Nick Petsas,”3,310,000″
Jimmy Setna,”1,990,000″
Ko Maddock,”1,460,000″
Senthuran Vijayaratnam,”1,925,000″
Glen Hammers,”1,410,000″
Gerald Macleod,”2,080,000″
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