Allyn Marshall Eliminated in 2nd Place ($51,318)

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Level 39 : 400,000/800,000, 100,000 ante

Allyn Marshall survived hours playing heads up against Nicholas Immekus, but in a series of three hands contested in a matter of minutes it was all over.

For a moment though, it appeared that top honors would be going his way, as Marshall scored a major double up to take the lead before the deck conspired against him.

First, Marshall check-raised for all his chips (about 10 million) on the flop and Immekus snapped him off while triumphantly tabling . Marshall could only muster the for bottom pair, putting him on the brink of elimination, but the dealer burned and turned the to thrust him into the lead. The on the river changed nothing, and suddenly Marshall had Immekus on the ropes.

Just a deal or two after that, Immekus open-shoved with and it was Marshall's turn to snap-call with his . Before he could celebrate, however, the appeared right in the window, and the final board rolled out to swing things back in Immekus' favor.

The finishing blow came minutes later, when Marhsall ran his all-in move against Immekus' . A runout of provided no further miracles, and with that Marshall finished as the runner-up for a $51,318 score.