From the cutoff seat, Matthew Waxman opened to 23,000, and small blind Artie Smith said, "I'm gonna raise," in his entertaining drawl. He made it 61,000 straight, but big blind Joanne Dorin was eyeing up his stack. After a moment, she announced a reraise, eventually settling on all in as the amount. The folds from Waxman and Smith couldn't have come any quicker, and Dorin boosts her stack by close to 100,000 without a flop.
Paolo Nigris was first in from the hijack seat, and he opened the pot with a big raise to 77,000, about half his stack. In the small blind, Bill Stradley three-bet all in, and Nigris committed his last ~70,000 chips to put himself at risk.
Showdown
Nigris: 
Stradley: 
The 
flop missed Nigris, but the 
turn made things a bit more interesting. The at-risk player picked up ten full outs to the win, still about a 4:1 underdog to survive. He could not overcome those odds, either, and the blank 
river filled out the board to seal his departure in 18th place. That's good for more than $6,000 for Nigris, but it's Stradley with the chips -- about 460,000 of them now.
Table 22
Seat 1: Lorne Kanover
Seat 2: Mark Sykes
Seat 3: Mike Summers
Seat 4: Manish Patel
Seat 5: Jesus Cabrera
Seat 6: Tam Ly
Seat 7: Yigal Hen
Seat 8: Matt Glantz
Seat 9: Charles Croft
Table 32
Seat 1: Bill Stradley
Seat 2: Trevor Savage
Seat 3: Matthew Waxman
Seat 4: Chris Bonita
Seat 5: Artie Smith
Seat 6: Joanne Dorin
Seat 7: Paolo Nigris
Seat 8: Joanne Monteavaro
Seat 9: Dave Cubeta
After being blinded down nearly to the felt, Dany Dalal has lost his last few thousand chips to exit in 19th place. That cues a redraw, and we'll have the seating chart for you momentarily.
Josh Brikis opened to 20,000 under the gun, and he found calls from Jesus Cabrera (middle position), Tam Ly (small blind), and Bill Stradley (big blind).
The four horsemen took a flop of 
, and hijinks ensured. The blinds checked, and Brikis continued out with 40,000. Cabrera folded, but Ly check-raised to 120,000 straight. Stradley ducked out now, and Brikis proceeded to three-bet all in for about 300,000 total. Ly called with his covering stack, and Brikis was at risk for his tournament life.
Showdown
Brikis: 
Ly: 
Stradley commented that he'd folded the other two nines in the deck, so Brikis was going to need to make it work with just one pair.
Turn: 
. It's an absolute disaster for Brikis, drawing dead and officially eliminated in 20th place. He was already out the door by the time the 
landed on the river, relegated to the rail with a small cash to show for his efforts. Ly now becomes the second player to crest a million chips, sitting with 1.02 million by our count.
Charles Croft raised to 23,000 from the button, and Taemee Feuer three-bet shoved for about 115,000 next door. Croft made the call, and Feuer was dominated:
Croft: 
Feuer: 
It's hard to fault Feuer for playing back at the aggressive chip leader, but she was going to need some help to stay alive in this thing. The dealer gave her no help, though, running out a board of 
to send her to the exit in 21st place.
We are down to just two ladies left, the two Joannes (Dorin and Monteavaro).
Level: 22
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,000
In three-way action, Matt Glantz got his last 9,000 into the pot with the mighty 
, and he had to love the news when both Mike Summers and Taemee Feuer got it all in with 
and 
respectively. Glantz could beat that.
The board, if you please: 
. Feuer and Summers get their money back, but not before they each give 9,000 to Glantz to more than quadruple him up to 38,000.
On the next hand, Charles Croft raised to 23,000 under the gun, and Glantz called all in for his 37,000 remaining chips. Croft quickly called with , and Glantz's 
was out in front for a shot at doubling him up again.
Sure enough, the board came 
, holding Glantz's king in the lead and earning him that double. Mark him down for 89,000. "Hey, two more doubles and you're the chip leader," Mike Beasley said from the rail. Well, close enough.
Mike Summers was all in for about 130,000 before the flop with , and Matt Glantz, who had been the aggressor, committed most of his own stack as well and turned over the inferior to put himself in serious danger.
The flop brought Glantz a heap of outs, and the turn added an additional three for him to try to find. The river was a miss, however, and donating that double up has crushed Glantz all the way down to just 15,000 chips.
Trevor Savage got his 140,000-chip stack into the middle preflop with , and Dany Dalal gave him action with his inferior in trouble.
The board came 
, and the kickers play to give Savage his double up. He's back around 300,000 now, while Dalal is left with just 35,000 lonely chips.
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