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.
Palovic has 1.31 million now.
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Theo Jorgensen limped in from the small blind and Duy Le checked his option.
Both players checked the 
flop to see the 
land on the turn and Jorgensen fire out 50,000.
Le made the call, but instantly mucked to Jorgensen's 100,000-chip bet when the river landed the 
.
Jorgensen is now up to 8,450,000 in chips following this hand, and one previously when he raised the river against Michael Mizrachi.
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.
Randy Dorfman opened to 105,000 from middle position only to have Christopher Bolt three-bet to 305,000 from the hi-jack.
With the action on Michael Mizrachi, he cut out a four-bet amounting to 805,000.
Dorfman quickly mucked while Bolt took his time before following suit to see Mizrachi collect the pot and move to 7,900,000 in chips.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jim McCrink was all in preflop for his last 765,000 against Juha Helppi. McCrink tabled 
which didn't please Helppi as he would need some help with his .
It didn't arrive as the board ran out . McCrink doubled up to 1.8 million to leave Helppi in a world of hurt with just 360,000.
A few moments later Helppi's last chips were in the middle preflop with but once again he ran into the ladies as Gianni Direnzo tabled .
The board ran out 
and Helppi is sent to the rail.
