Van Marcus Eliminated in 7th Place ($55,687)

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Pots get so big so quickly in PLO. Lose two or three and you're out.

Rifat Palevic, Sorel Mizzi and Dan Hindin all limped into the pot preflop for 24,000 chips in front of Van Marcus. Marcus counted down his stack (about 200,000) and then raised pot, 156,000. Action passed to Cliff Josephy in the small blind, who reraised pot. Once everyone else folded and Marcus called all in, we knew exactly what kind of a hand to expect from Josephy.

Josephy: {A-Spades}

Marcus:

It was single-suited aces for Josephy against single-suited kings for Marcus -- in the same suit. That left Marcus drawing thin on a flop of {8-Spades}