We weren't supposed to have a break right now, but the clock says we do. The staff has sent the players off for ten minutes (of which about eight has already elapsed). When they come back, we're going to color up the blue T500 chips, then play round-for-round on the money bubble with 73 players left.
As far as we're aware, we've officially run out of players who are millionaires eight and a half times over.
A player in early position opened the pot to 10,000, and Jacob Naquin flat-called in middle position. From the hijack seat, Jerry Yang four-bet to 60,000. That was enough to fold the initial raiser, but Naquin was unconvinced. He proceeded to reraise all in on a five-bet with his covering stack. Sneaky, sneaky. Yang was pretty much committed for his stack of ~180,000 with pocket jacks, but he had run into a bigger pair. Naquin flipped up two kings, and Yang was drawing slim.
The dealer failed to keep him alive with a board full of blanks, and our last World Champion has fallen just shy of the money. Yang was recognized over the speaker system, and he said a few quick words to the remaining players before he headed out the doors.
Naquin is now in command of the biggest stack in the room with about 660,000 chips in front of him.
Our best guess tells us that Dwyte Pilgrim opened the pot with a raise in early position, because we walked up to the table as he was calling a short stack's all in for a total of 36,000. Pilgrim tabled 
, and he was drawing live for the knockout against the big blind's 
.
The board failed to eliminate a player, however, as it came out 
. The shorty doubles up, and that little slip knocks Pilgrim down around 130,000.
Ryan Sponaugle held the top stack coming into Day 2, but has been eliminated a few places short of the money.
He shoved for 50,000 from early position and was called by Jesse Okonczak on the button with 
. Sponaugle was well out in front with 
, but the board ran out 
to give Okonczak a winning set of fives.
Okonczak, meanwhile, is up to about 290,000.
We just caught the tail end of the pot, but it was noteworthy enough to tell you about it.
When we walked up to the table, there was a board showing 
out on the table, and Jerry Yang had apparently checked. With about 80,000 in the pot, Sangni Zhao announced that he was all in. It was a big overbet of the pot as bot he and Yang had more than 200,000 chips in front of them at the time.
Yang would spend the next several minutes in the tank, at one point uncapping his cards to take one more peek at them. After another brief pause, he said something quietly and slid his cards to the dealer.
Yang - 230,000
Zhao - 396,000
We caught up with the action on a 
flop. A player check-called Andrew Touchette's bet of 12,500. Both checked the 
turn card and when the hit the river, the bet was 21,500 to Touchette. After a few moments, he called with 
. His opponent couldn't beat it, surrendering the pot to Touchette.
Touchette: Up to about 425,000
We don't normally use this space as a personal shout-out service, but action has become pretty slow and measured as the field approaches the money bubble here, and frankly, we're a bit bored.
As such, we're more than happy to give a warm Florida aloha on behalf of Jerry Burgess'. So to Tori and his lovely wife Rhonda (we've never met Mrs. Burgess but we'll take his word for it) who are watching back home, Jerry sends his love. He's alive and kicking with an above-average stack of 230,000, and he's nine spots away from a payday here in Palm Beach.
There are 81 players remaining, and 72 will get paid.
From the cutoff, Cory Zeidman shoved for about 63,000. John Riordan called from the cutoff and put Zeidman at risk.
Zeidman: 
Riordan: 
The board ran out 
as Riordan scored the knockout and increased his stack to about 420,000.
Level: 19
Blinds: 2,500/5,000
Ante: 500
We've reached the end of the level, and that cues our dinner break. The players have one hour to chow, and the action will resume around 8:15 P.M.
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