High Roller: Joe McKeehen Eliminated by Yevgeniy Timoshenko

$25,000 High Roller No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
Level 17: 8,000/16,000 with a 2,000 ante
Players Remaining: 14 of 94

Joe McKeehen
Joe McKeehen

Nick Petrangelo opened to 38,000, and the player behind him called. Joe McKeehen moved all in for about 300,000, and Yevgeniy Timoshenko re-shoved for 698,000 in the big blind. The two players in the middle folded, and McKeehen was heads up for his tournament life.

McKeehen: AhQs
Timoshenko: QdQc

The board ran out blanks, and Timoshenko won the pot with his pair of queens. McKeehen was eliminated in 15th place, putting the remaining field squarely on the money bubble.

Play is now being dealt hand for hand to burst the bubble, and Day 1 will conclude following the next elimination.

Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 1,100,000 (69 bb)
Joe McKeehen – Eliminated