Monday, May 15, 2017 8:57 PM Local Time
Gerardo Hernandez Eliminated in 3rd Place ($11,829)
On the first hand of the 10,000/20,000 level, Marshall White opens the button with a raise to 50,000, and Gerardo Hernandez defends his big blind.
The flop is . Hernandez moves all in for his last 193,000, and White instantly calls to put him at risk.
White: (ace-high, flush draw)
Hernandez: (pair of eights)
White's biggest help would be a club, and he finds one promptly on the turn. Hernandez is already drawing dead to the river, and he's eliminated in third place.
White enters the heads-up match against Stanley Koenig with a 2:1 chip lead.
Marshall White - 1,640,000 (82 bb)
Stanley Koenig - 810,000 (41 bb)
Gerardo Hernandez - Eliminated