Players have returned from break and the cards are back in the air. There are currently 144 players remaining on 16 tables. The average stack is just over 950,000 chips and James McManus returns from break with the chip lead currently sitting on approximately 3,400,000.
It was just announced that at the start of today's play there were 26 countries being represented. The voice later announced that "65 percent of the remaining field is from the United States while 34 percent hails from a foreign country."
While it was an obvious rounding error, many people couldn't help but notice that these numbers did not equal 100 percent.
Amongst the chatter, ESPN host Ali Nejad was overheard jokingly asking "What, is there a Martian playing?"
It looked like Will Brewin was about to exit the tournament when he was all in before the flop with to Deng Dong's and the flop came . But the on the river gave Brewin an open-ended straight draw and the runner-runner came in as he spiked the on the river double up to 325,000. Dong is now down to just 50,000.
Albert Kim picked up cowboys at the wrong time. He raised to 45,000 from early position. Mark Owens popped it up to 145,000. Everyone else folded back to Kim, who raised enough to put Owens all in. He snap-called and tabled pocket rockets. Kim flopped a set, but so did Owens when the flop came down . The turn and river fell , allowing Owens' set of aces to hold up. He moves up to 970,000, while Kim drops down to 1,275,000.
Keoni Schwartz
After Brandon Becker raised to 45,000 from early position Keoni Schwartz moved all in for 125,000 from the big blind. Becker called and his had Schwartz's dominated.
The tables turned as Schwartz connected on the flop but after the came on the turn the cruelly spiked on the river to rip the pot away from Schwartz and end his Main Event.
Owen Crowe
Owen Crowe has been very quiet so far today, so much so that he often goes unnoticed seated in between the fast-talking Chino Rheem and Mike Matusow.
However, he recently got involved in some action with a raise preflop to 37,000. Phi Nguyen made the call, as did Cristian Dragomir from the small blind.
The flop came and Dragomir checked to Crowe, who fired out 66,000. Nguyen announced a raise, making it 216,000 to go. Dragomir thought for a long time before giving up his hand. Crowe made the call.
The turn was the and Crowe checked to Nguyen, who fired out a healthy 270,000 chips. Crowe deliberated and made the call.
The river was the and both players quickly checked. Crowe showed to take down the pot and move to over 1.3 million chips.