Michael Fong Eliminated in 23rd Place ($17,471)
The biggest pot of the tournament so far has slid in Guillaume Darcourt's direction, and it was all in pre-flop on a flip. Michael Fong opened pre-flop for 26,000. Darcourt then made a huge re-raise, to 141,000. Fong put his whole stack of 569,000 at risk with and Darcourt called, having Fong barely covered, with !
Fong flopped two pair, , but the turn and river were also diamonds, the and , to give Darcourt a diamond flush. Dragging that massive pot pushed him up to 1.15 million in chips and sent Fong to the rail in 23rd place.