Eric Kesselman sent Alex Bolotin home in 28th place with $30,985. Kesselman is now at 800k.

Alex Bolotin raised to 24k from early position, Konstantin Puchkov called from the cutoff, and Nam Le reraised 70k more from the small blind. Bolotin moved all in for 287k more, Puchkov folded, and Le called. The players turned up:

Alex Bolotin KK

Nam Le KK

The board came Q10838 for the players to chop the pot.

Mark Kroon raised to 23k, David Chiu called from middle position and Alex Bolotin moved all in from the small blind for 71.5k more.  Both players made the call and the flop was  AK7.  Both Kroon and Chiu checked.  The turn was the  J, Kroon checked to Chiu who bet 40k.  After some deliberation Kroon mucked his hand.  The players turned up:

Bolotin  AA

Chiu  JJ

The river was the  Q and Alex Bolotin triples up to nearly 300k.  Mark Kroon has 190k and Chiu is left with 175k.

Event #45 $5k Short Handed tourney has just ended.  Bill Edler defeated Alex Bolotin to win the bracelet and $904,672.  The final table payouts were:

1. Bill Edler  $904,672
2. Alex Bolotin  $504,686
3. Erik Friberg  $345,582
4. Greg Pohler  $232,669
5. Dutch Boyd  $169,369
6. Gioi Luong  $110,860

Congrats to Bill on his first bracelet, he's a great guy and very well thought of by everyone on this site.