Budway Salhab Eliminated in 5th Place ($10,870)

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Level 22 : 8,000/16,000, 2,000 ante

Budway Salhab is first to act and opens to 37,000. Andy Spears three-bets to 83,000 from the cutoff and the other three players at the table fold. Salhab thinks for about 45 seconds before announcing an all in bet for 390,000. Spears pondered for a moment, gave a quick shrug, and announced a call.

Salhab:
Spears:

The two were racing for Salhab's tournament life heading to the flop. Spears jumped out into the lead when he paired up on and Salhab stood from his seat and threw his coat on. The turn brought the and the river the , ensuring that Spears would eliminate Salhab in fifth place and absorb his chip stack.

"That's a horrible call with ace-jack," said Salhab after the hand. Spears gave a short reply regarding how often he'd been three-betting Salhab while stacking his new chips to a stack of about 1.82 million.