Chip leader Sorel Mizzi is doing his part to try and knock this field down to 18 before we play five levels, proven by his attempt to knock Pierre Aoukar out of the tournament making a big call with .
Mizzi opened the pot with a raise to 12,000 and Aoukar moved all in over the top for a total of 95,000 holding .
"You want me to call?" Mizzi asked.
"Yeah man, I'm not gonna sit down all day and wait," replied Aoukar.
"OK, I call," said Mizzi.
The cards then hit their backs and the community cards filled out allowing Aoukar's Big Slick to hold, bringing him back up to 200,000 in chips.
Mizzi dropped to 760,000 after the hand, but despite the loss, he still owns the top spot on our leaderboard.
Konstantinos Loutrianakis was all in for his last 15,000 against the small blind and the big blind, who was Adam Cusenza. The players checked it down in true "let's bust the short-stack" style with the board reading , and Konstantinos thought he was good when he flipped over , however Cusenza's lone club with was good enough for the win.
Konstantinos Loutrianakis was eliminated in 58th place.
We didn't see the action preflop, but with the board reading Aleksander Brkovic bet 55,000 from the small blind. His opponent moved all in, and Brkovic made the call. Brkovic was in great shape holding , but would need to dodge some outs as his opponent was up and down with .
The turn card was the , and the river paired the board filling up Brkovic, and getting his chip stack up to 319,000.
A massive hand has gone down to leave Dan Shak with all the riches as Chad Weidenhoft's monster draw left him empty-handed.
The action flop was as Shak and Weidenhoft committed their big stacks into the middle in a pot worth over 600,000.
Shak was first to open and revealed for top set. He was feeling pretty confident but Weidenhoft had a scary hand for top set as he revealed for straight and flush outs.
Weidenhoft needed to improve and had plenty of cards to do so, but the turn and river were huge bricks to leave Shak with the best hand.
Weidenhoft departs in 54th place as Dan Shak, fresh off his victory in the $100k Challenge earlier in the week, is now the chip leader of the Main Event with around 900,000. What a double it would be if he can go all the way!
Chris Gillard has been sent to the rail after committing his short stack preflop with but Ronny Kaiser made the call. Gillard was hoping for live cards but it wasn't to be as Kaiser flipped over .
The board ran out and the case eight on the turn was more than enough to give the pot to Kaiser and eliminate Gillard in 53rd place. Kaiser is up to 600,000.