Lee Nelson has been eliminated from the tournament. He was trying to work some short-stack magic for most of the last twenty minutes. His final hand, he opened to 30,000 from the button. Action passed to Hyoung Jin Nam in the big blind, who re-raised to 80,000. Nelson had about 160,000 behind his initial raise, which all went into the middle. Nam quickly called and it was off to the races.
Nelson:
Nam:
The crowd cheered as an ace hit the flop, . There was a shudder of fear that rippled through the crowd when the dealer burned and turned a three-pips-down card on the turn, but it was just the , not one of the remaining eights. The river came to send Nelson out the door, where he collected $21,714.