| Level: | 31 (100000/250000/250000) |
| Entries: | 1/423 |
| Prizes: | $212,695 |
| Local Time: | 5:50 AM |
The final table started out pretty quickly, with the action getting down to four-way pretty quickly. Then it stalled a bit before Skyler York ended his run in 4th place.
That’s when things really stalled. They played three-handed for almost an hour before the short stack, Andrew Sabbagh, shoved for a bit more than a big blind from the small blind, and Ryan Teixeira, who was sitting with more than half the chips in play, called blind.
He had a suited jack-four, and was ahead of the suited eight-five for Sabbagh. An 8 on the flop changed that, but Teixeira flopped a flush draw, and got there on the turn to send Sabbagh home in 3rd.
Teixeira started with a huge lead, but runner-up Tyson Malo wasn’t about to go down lightly. He bagged a couple of double-ups to take the lead, and then things evened up.
They ended up going more than an hour heads up, trading chips back and forth, until two coolers decided in the end. In the first hand, Teixeira flopped a set of queens against Malo on ace-eight. Malo flopped the eight, and paid off a value bet on the river to send Teixeira back to the lead.
The next hand, Teixeira woke up with kings against an ace for Malo, and the chips were in. The kings held, and Teixeira had his first ring.
