After just 2 hands of hand-for-hand play, the bubble has burst. There were a few uncalled all-ins and at least one confrontation before Chris Arvanitis walked on the bubble, eliminated by Mathieu Boulanger-Vaugeois.
Paul Thomas Scott shoved his less-than-100K stack with
, but no one called. Then, Rong Xu and Frédéric Gagné, on a nearby table, got it on with aces against aces, and that pot was unsurprisingly chopped. Finally, Arvanitis and Boulanger-Vaugeois got to table their hands:
Mathieu Boulanger-Vaugeois:
Chris Arvanitis:
Board:
Without an ace or a king on the board, players were now in the money. A minimum of $500 will be earned by all remaining players, with $37,500 reserved for the winner.