Event 10: Athanasios Polychronopoulos Eliminated in 8th Place by Nicholas Carballo

$400 Six-Max No Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry)
$50,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 18:  4,000/8,000 with a 8,000 ante
Players Remaining:  7 of 151

Athanasios Polychronopoulos
Athanasios Polychronopoulos (right) will lose his smile in a few moments when Nicholas Carballo (foreground, left) eventually reveals his pocket kings.

Nicholas Carballo raised from the cutoff to 20,000, Athanasios Polychronopoulos moved all in from the small blind for 201,000, and Carballo asked for an exact count and carefully counted out the exact amount of a call from his own stack before he called with KdKc.

Polychronopoulos turned over 8h8d, and needed to improve to stay alive.

There was an eight in the window as the flop came 10h8c3c, giving Polychronopoulos a huge lead with a set of eights.

But the turn card was the 2c, giving Carballo additional outs to a club flush draw.

The river card was — the 7c.

Carballo rivered a club flush to win the pot and eliminate Polychronopoulos on the final table bubble in eighth place.

Nicholas Carballo  –  440,000  (55 bb)
Athanasios Polychronopoulos  –  Eliminated in 8th Place  ($1,670)

With seven players remaining, the average chip stack is about 324,000 (41 big blinds). They have drawn for random seats at the final table, which will be posted soon.