Level 19
: 25,000/50,000, 5,000 ante
Erik Seidel doubled through David Steicke to crippled him, and now he's delivered the fatal blow.
It happened when Steicke got his short stack all in preflop and Seidel called him.
Seidel: 
Steicke: 
Steicke was in a bad spot, and it got much worse when the 
flop gave Seidel a full house. Steicke needed either running jacks or kings to survive, but that long shot didn't come in as the 
appeared on the turn followed by the 
river.
With that, Steicke's hopes of repeating as champion of the $100,000 Challenge came to an end.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
800,000
171,000
|
171,000 |
|
||
|
Busted | |
and was well out in front of David Steicke's 
flop was no help to Steicke, and neither was the 
turn. In order to score the elimination he needed to catch a seven and a seven only. The dealer burned one last time and put out the 
. Seidel held to double to over 600,000 while Steicke was left with less than 200,000.
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, and Timoshenko had the 
to give Timoshenko a pair of kings. The turn added a nice sweat when the 
fell to give Jacobson a flush draw, but the river was the 
, McDonald led out for 110,000, and Polk called. Both players checked after the 
turned, and the suicide king (
, and chopped the pot with Broadway.