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I told you we were going to lose some folks this last level. We are down to just 6 players.

Sam Holden was the first out when he ran As-Js into the Ah-Kc of Ben Lamb. Lamb caught clubs on the flop and turn to flush Holden out of the event.

Holden not too happy with his situation in the hand.

Anton Makiievskyi was all-in against Pius Heinz and behind pre-flop with K-Q against pocket nines.

He caught lucky with a flop of K-J-J. However, the turn was the nine and the pic below sums it up beautifully.

Are you kidding me?

Bounahra got the rest of his stack in with A-5 and Staszko called with A-9.  It was pretty much elementary from there.

As it should be.

Phil Collins caught a huge suckout against Ben Lamb and got me back into my prop bet race. He was all-in with Qh-Jd and dominated by the Ac-Qc of Ben Lamb.

However, he caught two diamonds on the flop and then a 10d on the turn to give him a flush draw and an open ended straight draw. The river? Bink!

Awesome river for me....I mean Collins.

Lon McEachern had the best line of the event so far:

“Ben Lamb now has the deer, or rather Lamb in the headlights look.”

And he was until he got luckboxen against O’Dea. He was all-in with Qd-8d against the Ac-9d of O’Dea.

The flop and turn missed both players … and the river …

Poker is a game of skill.....

Eights should be taken out the deck and burned now …

O’Dea was left with just a couple of million and was shortly all-in with Q-6 against pocket eights for Staszko.

The board blanked O’Dea and we were down to five.

So, my prop bets went bust thanks to the “skillful” play of Ben Lamb.

Now I am rooting for Phil Collins and anyone in a hand against Ben Lamb.

Dinner break is coming up in less than an hour.  Unless we get a couple of quick eliminations, it may prove to be a long night.