More Bust Than Dolly Parton

Just as I suspected the last level has seen a flurry of all-ins, with many a player finding their tournament over at the 11th hour. Paul Ephremsen was unlucky to pick a time to squeeze on the cutoff with A-Q, running into some Aces and losing that one. Also out is super-short stacked Saman Rezapour who made his last stand with the perfectly live 5c-3c aip, looked up by Justin Kean who knocked him out with Ah-Qc.

Finally joining them on the rail is Scott O'Reilly, a victim of poor timing when he'd re-raised all in preflop with As-Kh (there'd been an early position raise to 3k) only to find Andreas Hagen expressionlessly re-raising and losing the first guy - he had Kc-Kd. No Ace and O'Reilly is more concerned with finding a live socket to charge his phone now. Good to see him bounce back.

Andreas Hagen, stacking O'Reilly's ex-chips

Not busto but coming out on the wrong end of a super thin value bet by Sam Trickett is Nick Gibson. I saw him checking to Trickett on a board of 3d-9c-Jd-Kd-7c - he bet 4,600. Gibson considered, puffing on his weird fake cigarette thing, and then called. "Jack," said Trickett, tabling Jc-Ts. Which was good.