Anton Morgenstern Eliminated in 17th Place ($103,093)

Frank Visser

Level 22 : Blinds 60,000/120,000, 120,000 ante

Anton Morgenstern only had a few big blinds left after the dinner break, and they went in on the very first hand. He open-jammed for 375,000 from under the gun and Pakinai Lisawad rejammed from the hijack for 1,020,000.

Chip leader Tyler Smith was in the small blind and four-bet pot, putting the remaining player Adam Hendrix in the big blind also at risk if he would make the call. However, a four-way all-in was averted as Hendrix folded his hands after utilizing sever time bank extensions. Thus, the three other players showed down.

Anton Morgenstern: A?A?10?8?
Pakinai Lisawad: J?10?9?8?
Tyler Smith: K?K?4?3?

Morgenstern had the aces but immideately got outflopped by Smith on 9?4?3?. The two pair of Smith remained strong on the 6? turn, but the 10? river brought Lisawad a higher two pair.

Lisawad ended up taking the entire pot down and more than doubled up. Meanwhile, Morgenstern was eliminated as the last player before the final two table redraw.