Scott Drill fought valiantly, but his final bluff was sniffed out by Kanat Otzurk and his Day 1A came to an end in unceremonious fashion.

After preflop action that removed all other contestants from the pot, Otzurk in the small blind and Drill in the hijack went to a flop. was the board, and Otzurk checked. Drill pushed all in for his final 52,000, just a bit above the current pot size. It was at this point that Otzurk began piecing the story together in his mind, talking out his thought process. “If you miss, you shove, that makes sense,” he said, and after verifying the all in count Otzurk placed his call over the betting line.

Otzurk:
Drill:

The read was right, and the deck rewarded Otzurk’s Ace-high call with on the turn to lock it up. on the river was a small consolation for Drill, who is eliminated just short of the 12% of the field reaining watermark needed to trigger end-of-day proceedings. Otzurk collects the last of the Minneapolis native’s chips, and we are down to 14 remaining in Day 1A from Canterbury Park.

Player Name	Chip Count	Previous	Progress
Kanat Ozturk	160,000	116,000	​​
Scott Drill	0	51,000