During all of the commotion re: Mr. X and Mark Ericksen (see below), Jeffrey Lisandro was eliminated from the high roller's event.
According to a helpful spectator, Lisandro got it all in holding on a flop against an opponent's . A king then fell on the turn and a third heart fell on the river, giving Lisandro's opponent a flush to knock the three-time WSOP bracelet winner out of the high roller's event.
After Lisandro's elimination, 24 players remained.
With about 13,000 in the pot preflop, the flop came down . Dennis Waterman fired 6,625 before Donna Ciric raised to 14,000. Waterman then reraised to 30,625. Ciric mucked her hand, dropping some chips.
Nicholas Owens got his opponent to put all of his chips into the middle on the turn of a board reading . Owens held a set of kings with the and his opponent held the .
The river was the and gave Owens the massive pot. He's now up to 107,000 chips and the first player to break into six figures.
The action on table 24 began with Graeme "Kiwi G" Putt putting in a raise to to 1,600. Rob Spano looked him up and made the call.
The players saw a flop, and Putt put out a continuation bet of 1,600. Spano moved all-in for what looked like a little under 10,000, and Putt snap-called flipping over pocket tens for a flopped full house. We were unable to see Spano's hand as he immediately collected his things, shook "Kiwi G's" hand and exited the tournament floor.
Graeme "Kiwi G" Putt told us he had 42,000 after stacking his chips.
Lee "Final Table" Nelson raised to 2,100 from the cutoff seat and Emad Moaref called out of the big blind. The flop came down and both players checked.
The turn was the and Moaref bet 3,000 Nelson mucked, dropping to 28,000 chips.
On a board of , action was checked to Roel Pijpers by one player. Pijpers bet 9,600 and his opponent tank-called. Pijpers showed for the nut straight. His opponent mucked after showing it to the table.