The British pro locked up a seat at the six-handed final table after
Jared Jaffee and
Sergio Aido busted out. Jaffee had been extremely vocal about the WPTâs decision to make the final eight players compete across two four-handed tables.
Short But Still In The Hunt
Hardcastle sat down at the final table with the shortest stack, his 3,025,000 chips being the equivalent of 24 big blinds.
Trace Henderson crashed out in sixth-place when his pocket nines lost a flip against the queen-ten of
Qing Liu.
Joe McKeehen. Vangâs ace-king could not beat the snowmen in McKeehanâs hand.
McKeehen sent our hero home in fourth-place. Blinds were 100,000/200,000/200,000a and McKeehen open-shoved from the small blind with king-ten. Hardcastle called off his last 1.4 million chips with queen-eight, and failed to connect with the double paired board, losing to McKeehenâs king-kicker. Hardcastle padded his bankroll with $271,150 while McKeehen went on to finish second to Qin