Each elimination becomes more painful the closer we get to the money. With less than one table remaining until the bubble bursts, Mickey Appleman went out. It took a few hands. The killer hand was on a board of , with Appleman calling bets on the turn and river to be shown his opponent's full house, .
That loss crippled Appleman to 3,000. After getting a few chips back in a six-way pot, Appleman was eliminated by Jason Riesenberg in a three-way pot. Risenberg showed down , a scooper of a hand that nicely matched a board of .