Mir Gaskari was down to around eleven blinds when he found a pair and went with it. The 5♦5♥ were utterly crushed by Emilien Pitavy with the A♠A♣ and he found no help on the J♠8♥4♥9♣A♥ runout.
"Good hand," Gaskari said on the way out. Maxime Manzone followed soon after as the field was reduced to the last 82 contenders. Floor staff told players that hand-for-hand mode may come early again similar to Day 1a.
Lewis Spencer opened to 20,000 from middle position and Andrei Boghean defended from the big blind.
The flop came 9♣5♠3♦. Boghean checked, Spencer fired a 21,000 continuation bet, Boghean check-raised to 55,000 and Spencer made the call.
Boghean checked the A♠ turn and Spencer bet 85,000. This time Boghean opted to fold and Spencer took down a healthy pot without showdown.
Level: 17
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 10,000
The money bubble is drawing closer as just 86 players remain in contention. Among the latest casualties was also soccer striker Sergio Aguero alongside Takashi Ogura and Tom-Aksel Bedell.
Two players were eliminated from table 11 and that included Jamie Gold as well as Anton Smirnov.
According to Bob Mather and other players, Gold got it in with ace-king and his previous nemesis Andrei Boghean won the flop with pocket queens. Mather was then responsible for the knockout of Smirnov and leaped to half a million in chips.
Kyriakos Papadopoulos had been in the same seat all day long and saw his stack cut down very early on before he grinded it back up for hours. However, it all came to an end when he three-bet jammed with the J♠J♦ and Anatoly Filatov took the flip with A♦K♦.
The K♥5♥4♠4♦K♣ board improved Filatov to kings full of fours.
"I would have had to call, I had an weaker pair," initial preflop raiser Dylan Linde mentioned.
Garik Tamasian opened to 16,000 from the cutoff and Eyal Revah three-bet to 52,000 from the button. Tamasian four-bet shoved, covering Revah's remaining stack of 363,000 and Revah snap-called to put himself at risk in a pot worth nearly 1,000,000 chips.
Eyal Revah: K♥K♣
Garik Tamasian: 9♣9♥
The K♥10♣3♠ flop gave Revah top set leaving Tamasian with only runner outs to either quads or a straight. The 5♥ turn and 8♦ river changed nothing and Revah took down a colossal pot while making a serious dent in Tamasian's stack.
Vitor Dzivielevski raised to 16,000 and earned calls from Karen Nazarian as well as Igor Picone out of the blinds. They checked the J♠8♦5♦ flop and Nazarian bet the 4♥ turn for 20,000. Picone raised to 60,000 for Dzivielevski to fold and Nazarian reluctantly folded, too, with around 130,000 behind.
One hand later, Dzivielevski opened to 16,000 and Ori Eshel moved all-in for 122,000 in the very next seat. Damian Salas asked for a count and called, everyone else folded including Dzivielevski who exposed the A♥J♥.
Ori Eshel: J♣J♠
Damian Salas: A♣K♥
The K♦5♥2♠ flop left Eshel on thin ice. He found no escape on the 2♦ turn and 10♠ river to depart.
Nazarian was then eliminated by Jinhoon Lee and Aram Zobian vanished one table over.
Jinwoo Kim raised to 16,000 and called the short-stacked shove by Schonback with the A♦Q♥. He was up against A♣2♠ and the 8♣5♣3♣5♠8♠ board brought an unlikely showdown.
One hand later, they got it in again as follows.
David Schonback: Q♣10♦
Jinwoo Kim: K♦J♠
Both players missed the 6♠3♦2♣9♦4♠ board once more, but this time the king played for Kim.
Kristen Foxen and Luis Dono were next to fall right after with the former mentioning she "busted two days in a row around 1 a.m. and got her money's worth".
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