Mark Hodge needed 27th place to take over first place in the MSPT Player of the Year rankings. Unfortunately, after starting the day short stacked Hodge has been eliminated and currently sits in 4th place in the POY rankings. MSPT Pro Nick Pupillo is still alive and he also needs to reach 27th place to take over the POY rankings.
Brandon Carswell and Gus Vergos were heads up looking at a flop of . Vergos placed a bet of 20,000 and Carswell went all in for 130,000. Vergos folded.
There was a raise from middle position and Mark Sierpien called from the small blind. Chan Li then went all in for 46,000 from the big blind. The original raiser folded and Mark Sierpien called for less. Li had and Sierpien had . The board ran out and Li won the hand eliminating Sierpien.
The action folded to J.J. Adkins on the button. Adkins shoved all in for his last 24,500 and Jon Demars called from the big blind. Adkins had and Demars had . The board ran out , the queen on the river took the wind out of Adkins as well as his chips. Demars won the pot with a pair of queens.
Abhishek Yerra shoved all in with queens and was called by a player with . Yerra doubled up when he hit a set of queens on the flop and his opponent couldn't catch up.
Dylan Thomassie and Former MSPT Champ Ryan Dykhouse got all in on the flop of . Thomassie held and was well ahead of Dykhouse's . The board finished and Dykhouse couldn't catch up. Thomassie is now over 300,000.
and Singleton had 
. The board ran out 
and Johnson was eliminated.
. Vergos placed a bet of 20,000 and Carswell went all in for 130,000. Vergos folded.
. The board ran out 
and Demars had 
. The board ran out 
, the queen on the river took the wind out of Adkins as well as his chips. Demars won the pot with a pair of queens.
. Yerra doubled up when he hit a set of queens on the flop and his opponent couldn't catch up.
. Thomassie held 
and was well ahead of Dykhouse's 
