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Gualter Salles -- down to just 1,000 chips an hour or so ago -- has just nearly doubled up once again. He found 
this time, and Gregory Gokey shoved on him with 
. Salles called the ~170,000 to put his man at risk, and the board of 
kept his aces safe.
From a single chip, Salles is all the way back up to 405,000!
Following a four-bet shove by Benjamin Statz, Nicholas Fierrogottner called with his remaining chips, setting himself all in for about 200,000 total.
Statz showed 
and Fierrogottner 
. The flop came 
, giving Statz a set. The turn was the 
, meaning Fierrogottner had a wheel draw to survive. But the river was the 
, and Fierrogottner is out.
Statz moves to 1.3 million right now. He's sitting at the same table with Justin Tazelaar who has about 1.2 million at present.
"All right, seat 9," said Statz to Tazelaar. "Let's flip!"
Jason Mercier opened for 19,000 from middle position and Robert Mizrachi three-bet to 55,000 from the button. Mercier four-bet shoved and Mizrachi called all-in for 338,000.
Mizrachi 
Mercier 
Typically, the dealer holds up before dealing out the board while ESPN's crew gets into place. The cameras were still swarming when the dealer spread out the 
flop, and then burned and turned the 
, leaving Mercier drawing dead.
"Wait!!!" a producer screamed, trying to hold up the deal, but it was too late. A tortured Mercier had to endure the pomp and circumstance before the 
arrived on the river, giving Mizrachi a double-up to 690,000. Mercier was left with 133,000.
With the board reading 
on the river, Bruce Buffer moved all-in and Pierre Canali made the call.
Buffer turned over , but Canali had flopped quads with 
, sending Buffer to the rail.
The players are on an impromptu 20-minute break with one hour and 41 minutes remaining in the level. With so many bust outs, tournament staff need a few minutes to catch up with the payouts.
The first hour was a blood bath for those who made it to Day 5. We've already lost almost 100 of the 574 who came back today. Fabrice Soulier, Yevgeniy Timoshenko, and Brian Rast were back in their cars in under 15 minutes. Lauren Kling ended Day 2 among the chip leaders, but she quickly found herself on the rail as well. Karina Jett is gone too, further narrowing the race for last woman standing.
Eric Buchman, the last November Niner still alive, is alive no longer after running his into Shawn Rice's . Shannon Shorr, CK Hua, and Bruce Buffer are also busto. Praz Bansi could have been headed the same way after investing more than a third of his stack in a six-bet. But when his opponent seven-bet shoved, Bansi thought better of it and decided to save his remaining 500,000 for another spot. Turns out the other player was praying for a fold. Read about that fun one here.
Gualter Salles should be out. He was down to one 1,000 chip. But he won his first all in to get himself back over one big blind, then doubled again and again and again. Miraculously, he's gone from .12bb to 50bb. So don't ever doubt the chip and a chair adage.
Phil Galfond took over the chip lead early today and became the first to cross the 2 million mark. He is followed by Matt Affleck and Duy Le. And James Carroll, who ended Day 3 on top, earned is way back to the leader board. Who else will find their way there? Come back in 20 to find out.
Players are back to the grind after an early 20-minute break. They will play out this entire level (1 hour and 41 minutes) before taking another break. Then they'll play another level and take dinner.
Over at the main feature table, Phil Galfond used that first hour of play to push his stack over the 2 million-chip mark and into what appeared to be the chip lead at the break.
On the first hand back, Galfond opened with a raise to 20,000 from under the gun, and the table folded back around to Gianluca Speranza in the small blind who reraised all in for a total of 147,000. It folded to Galfond who thought about a minute before making the call.
Speranza
Galfond
The community cards came 
, and Speranza doubled back to about 300,000. Galfond is still near the top of the counts with 1.86 million.
David Anderson was all in preflop for 97,000 after an opponent raised from under the gun to 22,000. That player was Marcelo Dabus and he tanked for a couple minutes before making the call. Dabus held the and Anderson the 
.
The board ran out 
and Anderson doubled up.
Anderson is the Manager of Basketball Operations at Lehigh University in Pennsylvannia where he's in his second season on the coaching staff. Anderson has a degree in Business Administration from Concordia University while currently working on a master’s degree in Educational Leadership at the school he coaches at, Lehigh.
Over on the secondary feature table, Vanessa Selbst had been nursing what had become a below average stack for the first hour today. Down to about 150,000 as play resumed after the break, she found herself all in with her tourney life at risk and did not survive the hand.
We haven't all of the details, but were told she picked up and pushed from late position and got a caller holding . The flop came 
-X, then the turn and river came running fours, and Selbst was eliminated.
