TLPT MAIN EVENT 15K (SHR) - 8 HANDED ($15,000)

Digging for two outs with his bare hands, Demus improves to a four outer on Q♦ 6♥ 9♦ J♠ but the river Q♠ makes his elimination official, banking the biggest win of his career.

Under the gun Patrik Demus min-raises A♥ T♣ and cutoff Stephen Song comes along for the ride with 6♠ 6♦ to the flop A♠ T♦ 6♣ . Demus goes on to triple barrel for 400,000, 1,300,000 and 1,600,000 to the river 2♦ and K♠ where Song takes a time bank before deciding to raise to 4,800,000. Demus gives it some thought, but makes a strong fold.

No ace for Lei on J♠ 6♥ 8♦ 8♣ 4♦ spells the end of his run.

Jiaming Zhao lays out 450,000 from +1 and takes two customers to the flop 7♦ J♣ T♠ that gets checked to button Patrik Demus who tests the waters with a 450,000 bet, Marius Gierse folds his big blind before Zhao check-raises to 1,300,000. Demus needs a time bank and decides to let it go.

First to act Marius Gierse leads 400,000 and takes both blinds to the flop 3♦ 9♥ 3♠ where his 350,000 c-bet takes him heads-up with small blind Patrik Demus. The Hungarian check-calls another 1,200,000 on the Q♥ turn and the board completes J♠ . Both players check with Demus tabling the winner J♦ J♥ against Gierse's Q♦ J♣ top-two.

After a short break the final table starts with Hua Wei Lin picking up aces in the first hand, but is only able to collect the blinds before Patrik Demus does the same with ace-king

After just scooping a pot, Patrik Demus open-limps his small blind and fills up after James Mendoza made it 375.000 to see the flop 7♣ 4♣ 3♣ . Mendoza's 175,000 c-bet and a call is the last action before the turn Q♠ and river A♣ get checked down where Demus flips over the winner Q♣ 5♣ and Mendoza mucks.

A min raised pot between under the gun Stephen Song and hijack Patrik Demus gets checked to the turn 9♦ 7♣ 4♦ 4♣ where Song lays out a 275,000 delayed c-bet and Demus calls to see the board completes 4♥ . Another 600,000 from Song gets the job done.

A single raised pot between hijack Patrik Demus and big blind Quan Zhou gets checked to the river Q♦ 3♣ 6♦ 3♥ K♠ where Zhou tries to steal with J♥ T♥ for 300,000, but Demus puts on his cape after spending three time banks and makes the call with A♦ 9♠ ace-high.

With a 200,000 open from hijack Patrik Demus and a 520,000 three-bet from cutoff James Mendoza in front, Quan Zhou cold four-bets 1,300,000 from the big blind which is enough to scare his competition away.