Event 21: 4th Place - Buckley

$200 + $30 + $50 Double Green Chip Bounty NLH 

Brendan Buckley (Long Beach, NY)  

$3,451

Blinds 30k/60k/5k ante

The pivotal hand comes when Buckley is all in preflop against Leonardo Palermo.

Buckley: 8♠ 8♥

Palermo: A♣ J♠

Flop: K♣ Q♠ 7♠

Turn: 9♣

River: A♦

The Barry Greenstein ace on the river gives Palermo the winner and an 895k double up.  Buckley is left with only 70k and is out a few hands later.  

Palermo and Tom Gleason both have more than 1.5 million, with Palermo the slightly larger stack.  Alyson Parker is the short stack with 900k.