Todd Witteles was down to just 126,000 lonely chips, and he pushed them all into the middle before the flop. Evan Lamprea three-bet, and Niklas Toorell overcalled to create a side pot with Lamprea.
The board ran out , and Witteles' had missed everything. Lamprea's did too, but his hand was good enough to eliminate Witteles. Toorell mucked to send the pot to Lamprea, and he has officially eliminated Todd Witteles from the Main Event.
With a few hundred thousand chips already in the pot, Edward Ochana checked the board of to Meenaskshi Subramaniam. He fired a bet of 250,000 and Ochana called without wasting much time.
The river card completed the board with the and Ochana fired 430,000. Subramaniam made the call, but saw the bad news when Ochana tabled the for rivered trips. Subramaniam slammed his cards down as Ochana was pushed the pot to move near five million.
Short and in need of a double, Gary Kostiuk found and took that pocket pair to battle. Sadly for him he met Brandon Steven holding .
The flop came , and Steven was still ahead. The turn was the , and now Kostiuk was down to one card and two outs. The dealer burned one and dealt fifth street -- the -- and Kostiuk hit the rail in 85th place.
Steven is at 2.37 million as we near the halfway point of Level 25.
Over on the main feature table, an amazing seven players saw the flop of the cheap price of just 40,000; or in other words, the minimum.
The flop down and once the blinds checked, along with three players, Duy Le fired out 125,000 with only Michael Mizrachi making the call from under the gun.
Both players checked the on the turn before the landed on the river as both players checked once again.
Mizrachi tabled his to collect the multi-way pot and move over the 5,800,000-chip mark.
Gabriel Alarie opened with a raise to 115,000 from the cutoff with Edward Ochana making the call on the button.
They took a flop of and Alarie checked it over to Ochana who bet out 140,000. Alarie then put in a check-raise to 440,000 but Ochana came back over the top to 1.14 million. Alarie gave it up.
"Choose one..." teased Ochana, but Alarie decided to flip both. They were both the same, as Ochana showed for a set.
Ochana is up to 5.79 million with Alarie slipping back to 1.8 million.
Catching the action on the river on a board of , Benjamin Statz fired out a bet of 500,000 with Jacobo Fernandez making the call.
Fernandez tabled for a flush but Statz showed for a king-high flush to collect the big pot. Statz is up to 3.1 million with Fernandez slipping to just 900,000.
Ian Gordon was down to his last 525,000 or so when he found it needful to put it all on the line with and was hoping to outdraw Dag Palovic's .
The flop was somewhat promising for Gordon, coming and giving him an up-and-down straight draw. But the turn was the and the river the , and Gordon is out in 84th place.
Hasan Habib hasn't been too active all day long, but when he raised to 110,000 from early position, no one seemed to respect that. His raise was called by four players. Gabriel Alarie called in the cutoff seat, Edward Ochana called from the button, Matthew Berkey from the small blind and Meenaskshi Subramaniam from the big blind.
The flop came down and all it took was a bet of 225,000 from Habib for everyone to fold. He chipped up to 1.5 million.