Sometimes, There Are Good Reasons ...
Valerie Stephens has reduced the male player count by one, having busted a kindly gent after he got the last of his money into the middle before the flop with , only to watch after Stephens' improved to a full house on the board of .
Another French player at the table handed Stephens a $100 note; as it turns out, the gentleman was in fact playing for charity and his friends were offering the $100 as a bounty on his head.
Patrick Devini was playing for a breast cancer charity as well, but he was busted at the hands of Shola Akindele after getting the last of his chips into the middle with , but ran into Lori Miller's . Even so, both players lost out to Akindele's after the dealer spread the board of .