Among those to bust recently was Lily Kiletto, who lost the rest of her stack to Daniel Neilson while Danny Tang at the same table chipped up nicely since.
A short stacked player from China was all in for 7,700 first to act and Jack Salter in the small blind min-raised to 13,400. Anson Tsang in the big blind gave it plenty of consideration but folded and saw Salter ahead with versus in the showdown. The board came and Salter's top pair dodged the back door flush draw to award the pot to the Brit.
Martin Kozlov followed suit soon after and sent his chips over to table neighbour Preben Stokkan to see the field reduced to the last 39 hopefuls.
Despite winning a small pot with against Michael Gathy and Mustapha Kanit, [Removed:172] would soon after suffer a big setback as Kanit doubled through the German. That left Kramer with around 27,000 and he just three-bet shoved into a raise to 5,000 by Julius Colman to claim the pot uncontested.
Dylan Wilkerson has since been eliminated on a different table and the screens show 41 players remaining.
A total of 114 entries created a prize pool of A$2,736,000 (~$2,216,160) and the top 14 spots will receive at least A$54,720 (approximately $44,323) while the winner walks home with the Anton Championship ring and a payday of A$738,720 (~$738,720).
On a completed board of Marius Gierse checked to Mustapha Kanit who bet 8,000. Gierse then check-raised to 30,000. Kanit only had about 45,000 behind but still called.
Gierse showed for a pair of sevens, while Kanit showed for top pair, which elicited a knock on the table in appreciation from Gierse.
Martin Jacobson was all in and at risk for 48,500 with the and Thomas Muehloecker had him dominated with . The board ran out and that was it for the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event champion.