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title: Dreiling Skips Hand-for-Hand
description: Rajasekhar Kola is eliminated on the bubble by Justin Dreiling's quad queens. Players are in the money in the fifth starting flight of the $1M GTD Event.
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# [Dreiling Skips Hand-for-Hand](https://blog.texascardhouse.com/trailblazer-season-ii/dreiling-skips-hand-for-hand)

 Written by [Kyle M](https://blog.texascardhouse.com/trailblazer-season-ii/author/kyle) | Oct 12, 2025 4:00:21 AM

With the elimination of Madhusudhan Gayam, hand-for-hand was about to begin after all hands completed on the other tables.

Except there was an all-in and call on table 17. Justin Dreiling had jammed from the small blind over Rajasekhar Kola's initial open. Kola was at risk but ahead.

Kola: K♦K♣  
Dreiling: Q♠Q♦  
Board: A♠J♥6♣Q♥Q♣

Kola held on the ace-high flop but then saw running queens to be eliminated as the stone bubble. No hand-for-hand needed courtesy of Dreiling's running quad queens.

The remaining players have locked up $2,000. There will be one pay jump before the final 19 players bag up for Monday's Day Two Restart.

Flight 5/8 Payouts  
1st-19th: Day Two  
20th-24th: $2,200  
25th-29th: $2,000

Chip Counts (through Flight 4/8)  
*Current prize pool: $487,200 of $1,000,000 GTD*  
*Average stack: 488,921 *  
*Lowest blind level: 5K/10K/10K 27:23*

| **Name** | **Chips** | **Flight** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Jose Montes | 1,275,000 | 4/8 |
| Mason Vieth | 1,190,000 | 4/8 |
| Gabriel Gutierrez | 1,089,000 | 3/8 |
| Jacob Wilson | 1,002,000 | 2/8 |
| Thai Ha | 867,000 | 1/8 |
| Eric Chang | 833,000 | 1/8 |
| Matthew Havens | 760,000 | 2/8 |
| Tyler Rawlinson | 757,000 | 3/8 |
| Harvey Castro | 735,000 | 1/8 |
| Babak Behgam | 623,000 | 1/8 |
| Max Yang | 599,000 | 3/8 |
| Zach Castro | 596,000 | 2/8 |
| Sami Saeaemaenen | 587,000 | 3/8 |
| Kamran Jamal | 565,000 | 4/8 |
| Ricardo Eyzaguirre | 484,000 | 3/8 |
| Sihao Zhang | 475,000 | 4/8 |
| Kasey Mills | 465,000 | 4/8 |
| Oleksii Koiev | 440,000 | 4/8 |
| Barbara Sargent | 430,000 | 4/8 |
| Ryan Nickel | 415,000 | 4/8 |
| Adam Grovenstein | 412,000 | 2/8 |
| Ghadi Akari | 391,000 | 2/8 |
| Jim Coyle | 357,000 | 2/8 |
| Pejman Niyati | 348,000 | 3/8 |
| Songkane Traymany | 329,000 | 2/8 |
| Ryan Findley | 300,000 | 1/8 |
| Eric Graziano | 245,000 | 4/8 |
| Jared Ingles | 237,000 | 3/8 |
| Hunter Cichy | 230,000 | 4/8 |
| Thang Peter Dang | 222,000 | 3/8 |
| La Sengphet | 220,000 | 2/8 |
| Pablo Aldaco | 208,000 | 1/8 |
| Gene Allison | 185,000 | 4/8 |
| Taylor Carlet | 180,000 | 4/8 |
| Mariona Canals Riba | 154,000 | 1/8 |
| Antonio Ruelas | 154,000 | 3/8 |
| Brian Sanguinet | 140,000 | 2/8 |
| Sharan Shyangbo | 80,000 | 4/8 |

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