CPPT Main Event: 8th Place - David Stefanski ($11,694)

CPPT Main Event (Day 2)

Level 25 (12,000/24,000/4,000)
Total Entrants: 282
Players Remaining: 7
Chip Average: 1,200,000

David Stefanski (Waterford, CT)

It's been a pretty "uneventful" first half to Level 25 with only one "major" hand playing out when Sharman Olshan doubled up through the chip leader Jay Feingold with her [Ac][10s] winning a race against Feingold's [5h][5c].

The shove would only be for a few big blinds and Feingold has gotten those chips back and more as he just eliminated David Stefanski in 8th place, as he was unable to completely recover from his tough beat against Frank Sgambota.

The action was picked up with Feingold limping in the cut off, a play he's done a lot at this Final Table.

Stefanski would then move all-in from the button for just under 325,000 and both blind would call and Feingold would snap call, tabling [Ah][As].

Stefanski has "punished" the Feingold's limp a few times today, but this time he'd be the one getting punished as he tabled [Kc][8c] and needed a lot of help to survive.

He'd get a best case scenario flop of [Qc][7c][5d] and he'd use his "one time" as the turn bricked out with the [7h] and his call wouldn't be answered as the [9d] missed his flush and Stefanski would be getting sent to the rail in 8th place.

This was Stefanski's first tournament appearance of 2015 after he and his wife gave birth to their first daughter in early January and it wasn't a bad comeback effort for the successful tournament pro, as he'd earn just under $12,000 for his Card Player Poker Tour Main Event Final Table run adding another deep Foxwoods run to an already spectacular tournament resume.

Jay Feingold now controls close a quarter of the 8,500,000 chips in play and as we were posting this elimination hand, PJ Caruso was losing a majority of his stack to Dilipkumar Patel, making him the new short stack at this Final Table.