Players continue to depart at a rapid pace, bringing the count down to 80 players.
From here on, tables will go to eight-handed play until the final table, which will redraw with nine players remaining.
Interim redraws will take place at 24 players and 16 players.
Here are the latest departures:
Jerry Payne's pocket sevens were good for a double-up through Jonathan Little, who had pocket sixes.
Dong Ji's pocket queens held against Ryan Hughes' pocket jacks and Ji chipped up to more than 1.3 million. Hughes was eliminated on the hand.
Victor Ramdin opened from the cutoff, then Michael Liang jammed for 105,000 from the button. Ramdin made a "what the hell" call, tabling 
. Liang's 
was ahead and the board of 
sealed his double-up with a King on the river.
Liang doubled to about 235,000 and no noticeable dent was put in Ramdin's big stack.
As of the break, David Farah had pulled into the chip lead with more than 1.7 million, edging out Justin Liberto, who's playing about 1.5 million.
Farah made the final table of the 2019 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open back in January, a final table that played out in April under the lights and cameras at the Luxor Esports Arena Las Vegas. He ended up with a second-place finish ($485,611) in that event and would love some redemption here in this Championship.
Level: 19
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
Jackob Datashvili, who won the 2019 Borgata Summer Poker Open Championship in July, was eliminated before the break, so there will be no back-to-back champion in this event.
Also gone before break:
Championship players are taking their first break of the day. They've got 15 minutes then will return to the felt.
Patrick Eskandar got his last ~200,000 chips in holding pocket sevens, but ran into the pocket Queens held by Mike McGuinness.
The board brought nothing but bricks and McGuinness took the pot, chipping up to about 550,000.
Eskandar hit the rail in 106th place ($6,399).
Other recent departures below.
In a battle between WSOP bracelet holders, Matt Mendez got his last ~285,000 chips in holding 
against the 
of David Prociak.
At the river, the final board read 
giving both players straights, but Prociak had Broadway for the nut straight. He chipped up to about 730,000, while Mendez reported to the rail.
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