Marty Mathis has been eliminated in 42nd place by Jacob Baumgartner. Mathis open shoved from UTG for 12 big blinds before Baumgartner re-raised all-in from the cut-off. All others folded to leave it heads-up:
Mathis: 
Baumgartner: 
The board ran 
. Mathis wished everyone good luck, arranged to meet one or two in Vegas and made his leave.
It's great to find aces when someone has isolated a short stack by moving all-in. Amer Sulaiman found himself in just that spot against 
and 
for a 400,000 pot. The board blanked out with 
and it's a huge coup for the Canadian.
A huge pot just developed that saw the demise of Nicasio Sánchez. Sánchez was joined all-in by Miguel Alvarez and Rene Aguilar in a three-way pre-flop all-in. Showdown:
Sanchez: 
Alvarez: 
Aguilar: 
The board ran 
.
Aguilar took the main pot with the worst hand and tripled up to 220,000. Sanchez had the best hand going in but was eliminated. Alvarez took the side pot and actually made chips, moving from 311,00 to 350,000.
Players look like their bailing out of the tournament as if their life depended on it. We've just lost Randal Hernandez to Marcelo Bonanata and Paulo Ceasr Robeiro's 
was battered down by Steven Thompson's which hit two-pair. We're down to 44.
Francois Frejdles is the first player out in the money. Action folded around to a player on the button who raised and then called Frejdles's push from the big blind. Frejdles had to the button's and the board ran 
.
The bust-outs will be thick and fast from here on in but we'll do our best to catch as many as we can.
Pham Duyen moved all-in from the small blind for 140,000 and Jorge Schwalb called in the big blind from a stack of 160,000.
Duyen: 
Scwalb: 
It was a classic race and before the tournament director could stop the dealer from running the hand out the table was swamped. A huge roar from the crowd of Schwalb's supporters told the tale as the board ran out eight-high. We're now into the money - expect a lot of knockouts in the coming minutes.
Jorge Ortega is our 50th place finisher. The action folded around to him in the SB and he moved all-in with 
but the BB woke up with 
and made the call. The board ran 
before a distraught Ortega stormed out of the room.
Details of the 50th place knockout to come...
We just can't quite make it to the bubble. David Figueroa keeps surviving and other players are either folding when they should; AJ to AQ, or folding when they really shouldn't; raise under the gun with AQ and then fold face-up to the short stack's shove from the big blind (who showed AJ).
David Figueroa's day has been one hell of a ride and it continues after an amazing run of hands just recently.
First of he was crippled after moving all-in behind George Martins' push. Martins held to Figueroa's . The flop came a pretty 
but Figueroa failed to hit any of his outs and was left with just a few thousand.
Two hands later these chips were in the middle and received three callers. The flop came jack high and Chris Conrad bet the other two opponents out with his holding of jack-ten. No problem for Figueroa as he had ace-jack and scooped.
The next hand Figueroa was all-in again with ace-jack and was looked up by the BB with king-jack. The board bricked out and Figueroa is up to over 50,000 now. Some ride for the local lad.