Monster Stack: Mark Dube Eliminated in 12th Place; Joe Mole Eliminated in 11th Place

$400 Monster Stack NLH (Re-Entry)
$200,000 Guaranteed | Structure | Payouts
Level 31: 50,000/125,000 with a 125,000 ante
Players Remaining: 11 of 1,371

Abdelouahed Bouanani moved all in from the small blind for 1,650,000, and Robert Cheung tanked for a while before he called from the big blind with . Bouanani turned over , and needed his hand to hold to stay alive.

The board came 10c — Cheung flopped an open-ended straight draw to go with his overcards, but missed all of his outs. The pocket deuces held up for Bouanani to win the pot and double up in chips.

Abdelouahed Bouanani – 3,425,000 (27 bb)
Robert Cheung – 1,675,000 (13 bb)

A few minutes later, Serge Dergham and Giedrius Bagdonas played a big pot on a board of . On the river, Dergham bet 1,350,000, and Bagdonas called with for a rivered two pair, kings and queens.

But Dergham turned over to win the pot with a flopped set of fives, increasing his chipleading stack to more than eight million.

Serge Dergham – 8,250,000 (66 bb)
Giedrius Bagdonas – 3,500,000 (28 bb)

A few minutes later, Serge Dergham raised from the button to 300,000, Mark Dube reraised from the small blind to 800,000, and Giedrius Bagdonas moved all in from the big blind for 2,650,000.

Dergham folded, and Dube called all in for 1,875,000 with . Bagdonas turned over , and Dube needed his jacks to hold to stay alive.

The board came , and Bagdonas paired his ace on the flop to win the pot and eliminate Dube in 12th place.

Giedrius Bagdonas – 4,950,000 (40 bb)
Mark Dube – Eliminated in 12th Place ($5,483)

A few minutes later, Joe Mole was eliminated in 11th place, and the remaining players were ready to combine to a final table.

Joe Mole – Eliminated in 11th Place ($5,483)

However, when Mole was eliminated, a hand was in progress at the other table. Kevin Ho got it all in from the big blind for 3,825,000 with , and he needed his hand to hold to stay alive against the of chipleader Serge Dergham.