William Erickson opened all in for 228,000 from early position. Action passed to perpetual tanker Jorg Peisert in the small blind. He didn't tank this time; he snap-called with and saw that he had to fade an ace against Erickson's . Fade it he did, on a board of .
Erickson becomes the eighth-place finisher and the first player to be eliminated in four hours -- though to be fair, we were on dinner break for an hour.