Aleksejs Ponakovs in another eventĪce-king ended Latvia's Aleksejs Ponakovs' participation in the Main Event. The Spaniard's hand held, and Bonomo busted. However, Mateos had a legitimate hand of his own: ace-king. Possibly thinking Mateos was bullying with his colossal stack, Bonomo called. Bonomo raised with ace-five of diamonds, and Mateos three-bet jammed. Mateos picked off Justin Bonomo, resigning the world's second-winningest live poker player to an eighth-place finish. Those tens succumb to an ace on the flop and another on the river. Petrangelo decided to go with his pocket tens, and called, finding himself flipping against ace-queen. Petrangelo opened with pocket tens and faced an all-in three-bet from Ken Tong, whose stack covered the opener's. Nick Petrangelo was the first of the nine finalists to be relieved of his stack as the players attempted to hold onto Mateos' coattails. Eibinger went into the final table win fourth place with a 28 big blind stack, but the Austrian was way behind chip leader Mateos, who returned to the battle with 125 big blinds in his war chest. The latter finished sixth in the $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed event for $672,000 Christoph Vogelsang took that down for $2,644,000.Įach of the nine finalists secured a $391,000 score, with the top five finishers seeing their bankroll increase by seven figures. Li's final hand saw him all-in with ace-jack of spades against Richard Yong's dominated ace-five, but that ace-five turned a straight for the Triton co-owner, leaving Li empty-handed on the sidelines.Ī raft of global superstars fell by the wayside in succession, including recent WSOP Online $100,000 High Roller champion Jans Arends, Jason Koon, Isaac Haxton, and final table bubble boy Daniel Dvoress.

Ren Li was the unfortunate soul who popped the money bubble and paved the way to riches for the surviving players. Bursting the money bubble is never pleasant for the unfortunate soul on the wrong side of it, but this bubble was particularly harsh, with a min-cash weighing in at $198,000. A staggering $16,875,000 prize pool was up for grabs, and the top 23 finishers won a slice of it.

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