Soon after play resumed, Milton Thomas took out two players in quick succession over on Table 1.
The first one saw Thomas taking up against the short-stacked Bill Rothstein's in a preflop all-in situation. The board came , and Rothstein was eliminated in 36th.
While Andrew Higgins was being knocked out on another table in 35th, Thomas was soon after busy knocking out Milton Thomas in 34th. In that case it was Thomas taking up against Thomas's , and the board rolled out .
"That's not good," said Paul Snead with a wry grin, shaking his head at the sight of Saul now with a stack about twice the average with 36 players left.
So offered Dmitriy Shiluikov to Alex Wilson sitting a couple of seats to his left. Wilson had opened with a raise to 23,000, and when it had folded around to Shiluikov in the small blind he had reraised all in for 87,000 total. Stephen Dare folded in the big blind, then Wilson was hesitating just a moment, thus giving Shiluikov the opening to make his suggestion.
Wilson decided otherwise, calling to show his while Shiluikov turned over .
The dealer then delivered the flop — . "Motherf---er" said Shiluikov at the sight of the ace, and as the turn and river fell, he added one final postscript to his Main Event tournament run.
"What are you gonna do?"
Shiluikov is out in 38th, while Wilson is now approaching 600,000.
Following a middle position open, Thomas Walsh and Z Stein got into a raising war from late position that persuaded the blinds and original raiser to get out. The battle between Walsh and Stein — whose legal first name is indeed "Z" by the way — resulted with Walsh all in for about 145,000 and the players quizzing each other about their hands before they showed.
Walsh asked "Do you have aces?" Hearing that question, Stein replied not with an answer, but with a speculative statement about Walsh's hand: "You must have kings."
Stein then turned over his hand, showing , then was pleasantly surprised to see Walsh turn over .
The board came , then , then , and Walsh is out in 40th. Mazen Nesheiwat soon followed Walsh to the cashier's desk in 39th, with both players earning $3,606 for their finishes.
Jonathan Lewis opened from late position with an all-in push, then Chris Mintchev reraised all in from the small blind and the big blind got out of the way.
Lewis had and needed help versus Mintchev's . The community cards brought no such relief for Lewis, however, coming , and they are now down to 40 players.
A preflop raising war resulted in Luke Vrabel being all in preflop for 248,000 holding the . Unfortunately for him, Lall Bharat held the and had 3,000 more in chips.
Vrabel, known as "Bdbeatslayer" online, was no doubt hoping to deliver a bad beat of his own, but it wasn't in the cards as the board ran out . Vrabel hastily made his way to the payout desk in 44th place to collect $3,606.
Not long after, Lawrence Greenberg and Christopher Renaudette joined Vrabel on the rail in 43rd and 42nd place respectively.
We're not sure of the preflop action, but we do know that Richard Zisk got his stack all in preflop holding the and was a huge favorite against the of John Yale. The flop wasn't of any interest, and the turn kept Zisk firmly in the lead thanks to his kicker.
All he needed to do was dodge a nine on the river to double, but it proved more difficult than advertised as the plunked down to send him out the door in 45th place for $3,606.
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