After just 4 hands of hand for hand play, the bubble has burst as Denis Levesque was eliminated by Nick-Real Seide in the type of hand that often seems to characterize bubble eliminations.
The preflop action was standard: Denis open shoved, action folded around to Nick-Real in the bb (who covered Denis by quite a bit), who made the call. The hole cards were turned over.
Denis: 
Nick-Real: 
The flop was terrific for Denis: 
and the turn 
didn’t seem like much of a threat… until the 
was flipped over on the river! Nick-Real had made a runner-runner straight! And though it was a pretty bad beat, Denis was gracious about congratulating the table before making his way to the exit.
During hand for hand play we saw the beginning of level 20 in the tournament, which is significant because from now on, blinds will be 40 minutes in length.
