Carnage Before Final Table
The elimination of Manig Loeser opened the floodgates for a slew of speedy eliminations with five players falling in the space of 30-minutes.
Not long after the German had departed and we had another all-in and a call with an increasingly active Fedor Holz throwing chips around like confetti at a wedding, which seems to be working out for him just fine.
Holz was the initial aggressor, making it 11,500 to go from early position before Cheok Ieng Cheong moved all-in with Holz making a speedy call.
Cheok Ieng Cheong: 
Fedor Holz: 
Cheong was the at risk player and found no help when the board ran out 
to send the Chinese player to the rail in 11th place while Holz stacked up to 410,000.
Sam Trickett followed less than a minute later, getting his last 160,000 in chips in on a flop of 
with 
with Gabe Patgorski making the call with 
.
Unfortunately for Trickett the turn and jc] river were not the spade he needed to survive and he hit the rail in 10th place while Patgorski stacked up to over 300,000 in chips.
Wu followed Trickett to the rail just two hands later, moving all-in from the button with 
and running into Predrag Lekovic who woke up in the blinds with 
. The board ran out 
meaning the Montenegran��s pocket pair held to send one-time frontrunner Wu to the exit in 9th place.