At the final table of Event 6 ($125 NLHE w/ $150K Guarantee), they are now down to seven players.

John Mayers was eliminated in ninth place when he got it all in preflop with against chipleader Brett Bader’s .

The board came , and the pocket sixes held up for Bader to win the pot and eliminate Mayers.

Brett Bader  –  12,700,000  (141 bb)
John Mayers  –  Out in 9th Place  ($4,525)

Shortly after the elimination of Mayers, it was time for a break. According to the schedule, play was supposed to stop for the night, but since they were at the final table, the players were given the option to vote on whether or not to keep playing.

Each player was given two cards, a black one and a red one. If they wanted to keep playing, they would slide the black one face down to the dealer. If they wanted to stop, they’d pass forward the red one. When the dealer flipped over all the cards, they were all black — they voted to keep playing.

The players did take their 10-minute break, and these were the updated chip counts as the blinds increased to 50,000-100,000 with a 15,000 ante:

Seat 1.  Moe Heider  –  4,700,000  (47 bb)
Seat 3.  L.J. Sande  –  2,350,000  (23 bb)
Seat 4.  John Carl Vinsant  –  2,535,000  (25 bb)
Seat 5.  Ory Hen  –  1,275,000  (12 bb)
Seat 6.  Frederick Allenspach  –  990,000  (9 bb)
Seat 7.  Brett Bader  –  14,560,000  (145 bb)
Seat 8.  David Jackson  –  3,715,000  (37 bb)
Seat 9.  Daniel Wellborn  –  6,060,000  (60 bb)

When the players returned, it took about five minutes for another all-in situation to develop between short stack Frederick Allenspach and David Jackson.

Allenspach was all in preflop with , but he’d need to improve to survive against Jackson’s .

The board came Q-6-4-7-A — Jackson flopped a set of sixes, but Allenspach turned a gutshot straight draw to give him a glimmer of hope. Allenspach rivered a pair of aces, but it wasn’t enough to save him, and he was eliminated in eighth place.

David Jackson  –  4,800,000  (48 bb)
Frederick Allenspach  –  Out in 8th Place  ($6,310)

The final seven players are guaranteed at least $8,610, but they’d all prefer the first prize of $57,976. Stay tuned.