Zink Eliminated on the Last Hand of the Day

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The cards were pitched to the players with just seconds to go before the tournament clock was stopped for the day. The action folded around to Daniel Zink in the cutoff who opened with a 5,500 raise. The action then fell to Tony Dunst who re-popped it to 14,000 from the button.

Rayan Nathan tanked for a bit before eventually folding his small blind. The action then returned to Zink, who moved all in with no time left on the clock, signaling that this would indeed be the last hand of the day. After some considerable thought, Dunst made the call and turned over {Q-Spades}

; Zink revealed a pocket pair of eights.

The door card was the {Q-Hearts}

which drew Zink up and out of his seat as he watched the next two flop cards come {Q-Diamonds}

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on the turn left Zink hoping for a king on the river to chop the pot, but he would receive no such sympathy from the poker gods, who delivered the {2-Diamonds}