It's all over for start-of-day chip leader Seung Soo Jeon. He got into a heads-up pot after a preflop raise with Daniel Aldridge. The flop came and Aldrige led for 24,500.
Jeon called and they both checked the turn. The river came the and after Aldridge checked, Jeon pushed all in. Aldridge tank-called with and Jeon mucked and walked.
Elan Zak got it in with a shorter stack preflop with against and failed to get there on a run out.
Then he missed with versus to double another short stack. Down to a few chips and a chair he was all in from the big blind against Michael Guzzardi and despite dominating him preflop, they chopped.
He folded his small blind hoping the bubble would burst, then shipped it from the button with . The small blind called, but Guzzardi pushed all in from the big blind and he folded.
Guzzardi had and it held on the run out.
With that, just 29 remain and hand-for-hand play has started now on the money bubble.
Daniel Giang exposed two aces with action pending after moving all in. The dealer had misheard his heads-up opponent who was asking for a count not calling and twice said "call?"
He folded and Giang was almost given a penalty for exposing his hand until the table stood up for him and all agreed he'd certainly not done it on purpose.
The very next hand Giang raised, Renato Villanueva pushed in and Giang called with again. Villanueva had and in a strange turn of events, he became the bubble boy after the run out.
On the turn of a three-way pot Maria Bernadette Lina fired 45,000 with a sizable amount already in the middle and the board reading .
Both Mike Takayama and Daniel Belov called. Lin checked the river, but Takayama bet 53,000 sending Belov deep into the tank. Eventually he called and after Lina folded, Takayama showed .
Belov turned over and scooped the massive pot to vault into the chip lead.