Antoine Abou Khalil Eliminated; Bubble Bursts!
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The bubble has burst. Perennial short stack Antoine Abou Khalil is the unfortunate player eliminated just short of the money. Khalil was under the gun with just 20,000 chips left in his stack, and the 10,000-chip big blind coming in one hand. He opted to shove. Action folded to Tommy Vedes who called the raise.
Then Anthony Lellouche, sitting in the small blind with a big stack, eyeballed Vedes' stack, which was about 160,000. Lellouche announced a raise to 80,000, giving Khalil protection by driving Vedes (and his 
) out of the hand. That took the table to showdown.
Khalil: 
Lellouche: 
The board did not help either player, 
. Interestingly, Vedes would have won the hand. It didn't matter though; Lellouche took the pot and Khalil is the bubble boy.
There is now a short pause to do the two-table re-draw.