Warren Zackey eliminated in 22nd position
Sorry Warren Zackey supporters, he's been eliminated in 22nd position with $352,832.
Ian Tavelli has been making very large opening raises all day. He did it again just now on the outer table, open-raising to 1 million with blinds at 80,000 and 160,000. Warren Zackey was in the small blind and reraised all in for a total of 3.525 million. When action folded back to Tavelli, he called.
Zackey: 
Tavelli: 
There was some mrmuring around the rail upon seeing both Zackey's and Tavelli's hands, but Tavelli's call worked out on a flop of 
, where he paired queens. Zackey was out in 22nd place after the 
turn and 
river.
Tavelli now has 11.2 million chips.
Our sincerest congratulations to Warren on his superb performance at the World Series of Poker. You did us proud and look forward to seeing you at future final tables!
Here's his exit interview with Team All Africa Poker media :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTxYMzbMntc
That concludes our journey of the Southern African contingent at the 2009 World Series of Poker.
Once again congrats to Robert Kay, Ryan Brauer, Melanie Banfield and of course, today's big winner, Warren Zackey.
