Valdez Wins a Monster to Eliminate Jay Shipley

Level 18
: 5,000/10,000, 10,000 ante

We missed the hand play out, but we did catch the tail end of a big hand between Jay Shipley, who started the hand with around 400,000, and chip leader Robert Valdez.
On a board containing two eights, the chips got all in with Shipley holding only to discover he was out kicked by Valdez, who had
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Shipley headed to the payout desk while Valdez extended his chip lead to 1.5 million.
Player | Chips | Progress |
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1,500,000
420,000
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420,000 |
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Busted |