At the beginning of level 16 (the fourth 60-minute level of the evening), Michael Ferrer ate up a piece of Michael Blair’s stack on table 37. When we arrived the hand was already in progress.
Flop:
With several thousand already in the pot, Blair made it 12,000 to go. Ferrer called. A came down on the turn. Both players checked, leading to a on the river.
Blair checked utg, after which Ferrer raised 24,000. Blair couldn’t help his curiosity, eventually calling. But when Ferrer flipped over his , Blair mucked, losing the pot of approximately 80,000 chips. And he wasn’t able to fight for his chips back as luck would have it, as he was switched to another table by one of the floor managers immediately afterwards.