Although it took a while to get there, the money bubble passed fairly quickly in the High Roller.
The field had remained stagnant for almost the entirety of the previous level, but once the blinds reached 10K/20K in level 19 the bust outs began.
Hand-for-hand play took only three hands to reach its conclusion, as all the chips went in before the flop between Jeffrey Cormier and Nicola Basile. Cormier had a live ace to hit, but Basile’s pocket queens survived unscathed on the jack-high board to send Cormier to the rail in 40th place, putting the rest of the field in the money.
