Nizzardelli couldn’t combat the best hand in Hold’em and was sent to the rail in ninth place. It was Michele Nizzardelli who was the first casualty of this final table when his pocket tens ran straight into the pocket aces of Bahri. The final 24 players had their antepenultimate reshuffle of the day, and the race to a final table began. This seemingly set the pace for proceedings as the three-table redraw was reached promptly by level 26.
With the post-bubble flurry of all-ins happening from the moment the clock started this afternoon, over half the field had been eliminated by the first break of the day.
