From under the gun, Brendon Rubie raised to 9,000. TJ Vorapanich called in middle position and then Albert Kim squeezed a three-bet from the big blind to 39,000. Rubie folded and Vorapanich folded as well. Yesterday, Kim squeezed a lot in spots like this and used it to build his stack nicely. It looks like he's up to the same tricks today.
On the flop of 
, Victorino Torres fired 16,000 into Mikhail Mazunin. Mazunin then moved all in, having Torress well covered for his last 50,000 chips or so. Torres tanked for several minutes before tournament director Danny McDonagh told Torres he was going to call the clock on him. Torress eventually folded his hand a few moments later and McDonagh announced to the entire tournament that if decisions began taking too long, he would be putting a clock on the player faced with the decision. He said it would be unfair to the rest of the tables and players.
Alexandre Chieng and Oscar Teran got all the money in on a flop of 
. Chieng was the at-risk player and held the 
. Teran held a weaker 
. The turn brought the 
and the river the 
. Chieng was all in for about 60,000 and doubled up to over 130,000. Teran was left with 152,000 in his stack.
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Brian Green raised on the button, and Raffi Cedric three-bet him from the big blind. Green wasn't falling for that trick. He moved all in for another 110,000, enough to cover Cedric. Into the tank Cedric went, while the cameras swarmed in. Brendon Rubie had gone to the bathroom when the thinking started, and couldn't get back into his seat through the wall of video crew. Finally someone called the clock on Cedric, and he let it tick down until his hand was dead.
Action folded to Conrad Coetzer on the button and he moved all in for 47,700. Marcel Luske folded from the small blind, but claimed that he felt Coetzer was stealing. Albert Kim was in the big blind and looked at only the 
before making the call. He had the 
. Coetzer had the 
. After a board of 
, Coetzer was the second player eliminated today. Kim's up to 165,000 now.
Jukka Juvonen raised to 13,000 and then Brendon Rubie three-bet to 27,000. Juvonen made the call and the flop came down 
. Juvonen checked and Rubie fired 16,200. Juvonen called.
The turn card brought the and Juvonen checked to Rubie once again. Rubie fired 29,000 and Juvonen folded his hand. Rubie's now up to about 340,000.
Conrad Coetzer raised, and when TJ Vorapanich reraised him, he moved all in for another 25,000. He showed down 
to Vorapanich's 
. The flop came 
, and Coetzer carefully corrected the announcer, since it sounded like he'd said "ace-eight-five" instead of "eight-eight-five," a fairly important distinction for Conrad. The turn and 
river made Coetzer a straight and gave the day's shortest starting stack his first much-needed double up.
We just lost our first player for the day, making 43 players left and just three spots out of the money. After Kai Paulsen raised to 10,000 from middle position, Guillaume Patry moved all in from the cutoff seat for 38,800. Paulsen made the call.
"Do you have an ace?" asked Patry. Paulsen knodded and tabled the 
. Patry held the 
.
The flop was clear for Patry when the 
fell. Paulsen did pick up a pair of eights, but Patry was still well ahead in the hand. The turn card was a dagger when the fell, tripping up Paulsen. The river completed the board with the and that was all she wrote for Patry as he was the first player gone for the day.
On the first hand of the day, Binh Nguyen was all in with pocket eights against a player with 
. Nguyen's eights faded his opponent's flopped gutshot draw and he doubled up to about 180,000.
Chip leader TJ Vorapanich un-bagged his chips before play began and found that he was short one purple T500 chip. Vorapanich was adamant about telling the floorstaff that a chip was missing and claimed that he stack was counted three times by himself and also once by the staff to verify the count. The staff said that a chip may have fallen out and that they'll check where the chips were stored, but it's more likely that the stack was simply miscounted.
