Saturday, June 20, 2015 12:24 AM Local Time
Hand #72 - Fedor Holz Eliminated in 3rd Place ($268,463)
Doug Polk folds his button and Byron Kaverman moves all in from the small blind. Fedor Holz calls off his roughly 400,000 chip stack and the cards are tabled.
Kaverman shows and is in the lead against Holz's . Holz gets up from the table and heads to his rail to sweat the board on the big screen above the table.
With Holz's entire rail yelling for a king, the flop comes , giving Kaverman a pair of fives and an even bigger advantage in the hand. The turn is the and Holz is down to his last card to hit a king. Holz's rail lets out a moan of disgust as the hits the river and Holz is eliminated in third place.
With Holz's elimination Kaverman takes better than a 2-to-1 chip lead at the start of his heads-up match with Doug Polk.
Byron Kaverman - 4,905,000
Fedor Holz - Eliminated