Luis Rufas Eliminated in 10th Place (�50,000)
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It looked as though Konstantin Puchkov had opened for 200,000 and Luis Rufas had made it 570,000 preflop, but by the time Puchkov went all in and Rufas called (sorry, it really is incredibly hard to work out what's going on up there on the TV table) they were looking at a 
flop.
Rufas: 
for top pair and a flush draw
Puchkov: 
for an overpair
Turn: 
, suddenly putting Rufas in the lead with two pair.
River: Boom! 
making Puchkov a set of aces and the winning hand.
We thought for a while that Rufas was out, but it turned out that he had change - he'd covered Puchkov by just 10,000. The 10,000 went in the next hand, Giuseppe Pantaleo raised which successfully got rid of everyone else, and they were on their backs for Rufas' tournament life.
Rufas: 
Pantaleo: 
Board: 
Our remaining nine players have redrawn for the official nine-handed final table. Please stand by.