Event 1 Flight E: Alejandro Funes Knocks Out the Bubble Player to End Flight E

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Level 17: 4,000/8,000 with an 8,000 ante
Flight E Players Remaining: 67 of 675

Alejandro Funes Knocks Out the Bubble
Alejandro Funes (left) knocked out the unfortunate bubble finisher (right).

After an elimination dropped the field down to 68 players, Tournament Director Tony Burns announced that all tables should finish the hands in progress before hand-for-hand play could begin for the end-of-day Money Bubble.

But one of the tables had already begun a hand taht would lead to an all-in situation.

Chipleader Alejandro Funes raised from the cutoff to 18,000, the player on the button moved all in for 115,000, and Funes tanked for a while before he called with AcQc.

The player on the button turned over KhQs, and was dominated as he faced elimination on the Money Bubble.

The board came Ah10s5d3d2c — the player on the button flopped a gutshot straight draw, but improved no further. Funes won the pot with a pair of aces to eliminate his opponent, catapult above 500K, and burst the Money Bubble, bringing Flight E to a conclusion.

Alejandro Funes  –  544,000