Tuesday, July 14, 2015 8:33 PM Local Time
Thomas Cannuli Doubles Through Pierre Neuville
Outer Stage
Hand #21
Thomas Cannuli opens to 500,000 from under the gun and Patrick Chan three-bets to 1,300,000 from the next seat over.
The action folds back to Cannuli and he folds.
Hand #22
Max Steinberg limps in from early position and Pierre Neuville calls from the cutoff and Zvi Stern limps the button.
Thomas Kearney folds from the small blind before Thomas Cannuli moves all in from the big blind for 4,405,000.
Steinberg pauses for a few moments before releasing his hand as Neuville begans deliberating. After roughly a minute, Neuville calls to put Cannuli at risk, and Stern quickly mucks.
Neuville:
Cannuli:
Once each player's hand was tabled, Antonio Esfandiari came running from the rail to peek at the table to see the sweat.
"We're ahead. Ace-king to ace-nine!" Esfandiari jabs back to Cannuli's rail that includes Jeff Gross and Brian Rast.
Cannuli walks round the table to stand with his friends and rail as the dealer spreads a flop keeping Cannuli in the lead.
As Cannuli, Rast, Esfandiari and Gross all watch the TV screen propped above their heads, the dealer delivers the on the turn to now give Neuville outs to any nine or diamond.
With Cannuli's tournament fate resting on the river card, the dealer drops the to complete the board and ensure Cannuli the double.
Pierre Neuville - 22,040,000 (92 bb)
Thomas Cannuli - 9,690, 000 (40 bb)