It was no surprise when
Daniel Dvoress busted in ninth-place. Dvoress entered the final table with a seven big blind stack and was desperate for a double-up. Dvoress pinned his hopes, and his last 4.5 big blinds, on pocket fives from under the gun. Arsenii Malinov called and won the pot courtesy of running spades for a flush.
David Coleman became the eighth-place finisher during the 25,000/50,000/6,000a level. Coleman open-shoved for 368,716 chips from the cutoff with ace-four and ran into the dominating ace-ten of
Joao Vieira on the button.
Seventh place and the first six-figure prize went to
Jason Koon. Koon was left with only 8.5 big blinds when his ace-queen lost to the pocket nines in the hand of Germanyâs