The field is dropping quickly as of lately with half a dozen seat open in the last 10 minutes. One of them was caused by Matthew Kozole, who called a three-bet shove of a short stack with 
. The opponent in the blinds held pocket sixes and a ten appeared in the flop to secure the pot for Kozole.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
45,000
45,000
|
45,000 |
There are only 54 players remaining on the last six tables for tonight and they all face another three levels once the current one is finished. Arunas Sapitavicius took a big step towards bagging up chips for Day 2 when he just doubled up on a board of 
.
The pot had already grown to more than 20,000 until the river and his opponent could not fold anymore to the 7,700-shove of the Lithuanian. Sapitavicius showed 
for a full house and that won the pot, the opponent had flopped a flush.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
39,000
39,000
|
39,000 |
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Sitting in the big blind, Jack Salter responded to an early position open by shipping it in over the top.
The early position raiser snap-called with the 
and was flipping for his tournament life against Salter's 
.
Salter took the lead on the 
flop and never looked back, busting his opponent and moving up to 40,000 after a 
turn and 
river brought no nine.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
40,000
19,500
|
19,500 |
Jack Salter opened the action with a raise and Jordan Kaplan moved all in for what looked like starting stack to see the player from one seat over isolate. Salter folded and Kaplan flipped over 
, facing the 
from his opponent. The board ran out 
and Kaplan headed to the rail.
One hand later, Salter raised again and a short stack pushed for around 5,500 chips out of the big blind with 
. Salter's held up despite a somewhat scary flop on the board 
.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
20,500
6,000
|
6,000 |
|
Busted |
Level: 9
Blinds: 500/1,000
Ante: 100
Down to 6,100, Xuan Liu open shipped from early position. The same opponent who had doubled her up an orbit ago tank-called once again, and once again she was ahead, with the versus his 
.
However, the 
flop was not a good one for Liu, and the 
turn and 
river only made things worse as Liu's Flight 1 is now finished.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
Busted |
Jim Andreadis made it 4,500 preflop from early position and got two callers, including Felix Stephensen.
Andreadis then continued for 7,600 on the 
flop and after one fold, Stephensen went deep into the tank. A few minutes later he emerged shoving for 17,300 total.
"I've got outs," Andreadis said, making the call with the 
. "You must be ahead, but I've got outs."
Indeed, Stephensen was ahead, and his 
top pair held on the turn and river to draw the two about even in chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
50,000
28,000
|
28,000 |
|
48,000
-24,000
|
-24,000 |
Two to the right of Sinan Aydogan sits Jack Salter and his younger brother Louis just walked past the table after having been eliminated on a short stack. Aydogan busted an opponent as well to boost his stack into the overall top five.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
65,000
20,000
|
20,000 |
|
Busted |
"Well, a short stack shoved," was the start of the story and Raj Ramakrishnan quickly corrected his table neighbor Jim Andreadis. "He was not short, he shoved 13,200,". Andreadis continued. "Well, he shoved 13,200 with 
and I picked up pocket kings."
There was no suckout and Andreadis was not done stacking yet when a raise to 1,600 and a three-bet to 4,500 from the player on the button took place. Felix Stephensen moved all in for around 14,500 from the big blind and both opponents folded to the former November Niner.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
72,000
33,000
|
33,000 |
|
|
22,000
-13,000
|
-13,000 |
Xuan Liu open shoved her last 4,100 from early position and sat quietly as the big blind tanked for what must have seemed like an eternity to her.
Eventually he called with the and Liu's tournament life was on the line with the . The board rolled out 
to the turn, giving Liu a queen-high flush. The river made sure she had the second best hand as well.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
|
8,500
975
|
975 |
