Santiago Plante was the first of the final nine to make his exit.
Plante had just doubled up Jonathan Little, who was playing the short stack at the table, on the previous hand. Playing from the small blind on his final hand, Plante three-bet shoved over Sorel Mizzi’s 120K under-the-gun raise and Upeshka De Silva’s call from the button. The raise chased out the big blind and the initial raiser, but De Silva quickly made the 1.35M chip call.
De Silva: 
Plante: 
Board: 
De Silva’s queen kicker was enough to take down the pot, sending Plante to the rail in ninth place. De Silva now leads the way with roughly 8 million in chips.
Plante will take home $83,500 for the deep Main Event run.