Over the last two hours, William Thorson, Filippo Candio, and John Racener have chipped over over the 10-million mark and to the top of the counts. Theo Jorgensen continues to hang around near the leaders, and Pascal LeFrancois and Bryn Kenney made big moves upward that level as well. Meanwhile, moving in the opposite direction was Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, who finds himself down around the 2 million-chip mark currently.
Meanwhile, we said goodbye to Dennis Pisarev, who earned $114,205 for his 64th-place finish. Following him were Gary Dishongh, Jim McCrink, Rudy Miller, Bill Melvin, Eric Baldwin, David Benyamine, Matt Harris, Jared Ingles, and Josh Brikis. They all earned $138,285 for their WSOP Main Event efforts. And Petter Jetten and Christopher Bolt are out, too, both getting $168,556 for making it as far as they did.
That left us with 52 characters left, and 52 cards to help us sort them out.
Then came the stunner -- Alexander Kostritsyn getting knocked out in a huge one versus Bryn Kenney as Level 27 concluded. Kostritsyn finishes in 52nd, earning $168,556, meaning there are just 51 players still with hopes for the bracelet.
James Manning has been eliminated after he failed to win his final coin flip of the 2010 WSOP. Manning got his ~700,000 remaining chips in with , racing for the double up against Sergey Rybachenko's .
The board was as dry as the Las Vegas desert, coming . Rybachenko's sevens hold, and he has eliminated James Manning from the field.
The two men in question; Tony Dunst and William Thorson
William Thorson opened to 200,000 from under the gun only to have Tony Dunst pull back his big blind and announce a raise of, "one mirrion" in his best Jerry Yang-esque impression.
Thorson put Dunst all in for his last 75,000 and "Bond18" made the call for his tournament life.
Dunst:
Thorson:
The flop wasn't the best one that Dunst could have seen, but the on the turn gave him additional outs to chop to go along with his queen to scoop the pot.
Unfortunately for one of the best dressed men in poker, he saw the delivered on the river to end his tournament in 50th place as Thorson climbs to 12,980,000 in chips.
Matthew Bucaric raised to 200,000 from the cutoff seat, and Edward Ochana called on the button. In the small blind, Adam Levy squeezed all in for 1.885 million total. Bucaric made the call with his big stack, and that got Ochana out and put "Roothlus" heads up for his tournametn life. And racing:
Bucaric:
Levy:
Help came quickly for the at-risk Levy as the flop came . The turn kept him in front, and the river cued his double up. Not that he was out of it before, but now he's right back in the game with over four million chips.
Robert Pisano made it 190,000 to play from the hijack position and Matthew Berkey made the call out of the small blind.
They took a flop of and Berkey checked it over to Pisano who made it 320,000 to go. Berkey replied with a check-raise to 850,000 with Pisano making the call.
The was checked through, as was the river as the players were happy to get to showdown. Berkey opened for a rivered pair of aces which was good to take it down. He's up to 4.15 million with Pisano down to 3.3 million.
Redmond Lee raised from under the gun to 225,000. Jakob Toestesen flatted from the small blind and the flop came down . Toestesen checked and Lee fired 275,000. Toestesen check-raised to 800,000 and Lee shoved. Toestesen snapped.
Both players held big slick, but each had a freeroll to backdoor flushes. Toestesen held the and Lee the .
The turn took away any chance of a sweat with the and the river completed the board with the . The two players chopped up the pot.
flop before both players checked the 
on the turn.
, Racener checked and Affleck fired out 575,000 to take the pot down.
, racing for the double up against Sergey Rybachenko's 
.
. Rybachenko's sevens hold, and he has eliminated James Manning from the field.
flop wasn't the best one that Dunst could have seen, but the 
delivered on the river to end his tournament in 50th place as Thorson climbs to 12,980,000 in chips.
turn kept him in front, and the 
river cued his double up. Not that he was out of it before, but now he's right back in the game with over four million chips.
was checked through, as was the 
for a rivered pair of aces which was good to take it down. He's up to 4.15 million with Pisano down to 3.3 million.
and the river completed the board with the 
