Hand-for-hand began with 121 players remaining in level 21, and the first player eliminated was November-Niner Griffin Benger.
James Romero opened to 470,000 and David Eldridge flat-called next to act. Griffin then placed a 3bet to 4,800,000, which represented most of his stack as he only had around 800,000 behind. James tanked a moment before making the call and David let his hand go. James bet enough to put Griffin all-in before the board was out, and Griffin made the call.
James tabled 
and was up against the 
. The 
board brought no danger to James’s Kings and Griffin was knocked out in 121st place.
Scott Montgomery found a full double-up to over 25 million on the following hand, by flopping a set of Deuces and getting 3 streets of value versus Francois Billard’s pocket Jacks.
As all of this was happening, Steven Warburton was slowly blinding out on table 68. On the 6th hand of hand-for-hand, he forfeited his 100K in the small blind leaving him with only 20K behind. He was automatically all-in on the next hand, and his 
was up against the 
of Timothy West. Steven couldn’t find help on the board and was eliminated on the bubble. There were two other all-in / calls at the same time on other tables, but both at-risk players survived the hand, leaving Steven as the sole bubble elimination.
The remaining players have now locked in a min-cash of $10,000 as they progress towards the $1,000,000 grand prize.
Congratulations to the players who have cashed in this event!
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