Yuliyan Kolev raised to 6,500 and Matthias de Meulder moved all in two seats over for 52,000. The remaining players to act behind them folded and the Bulgarian called. It was a flip with the versus and Kolev had the better end of a board.
After losing a race to see his stack dip down to 56,000, Matt Brady scored a double up when he picked up and was up against a bigger stacks . The board would run out to secure the pot for the long time pro best known for his $1,000,000 payday at the 2008 Aruba Classic. This is Brady's 19th career WSOP cash and he is coming off an excellent 2013 WSOP that saw him make the money on five separate occasions.
Julian Thomas lost with pocket nines versus pocket eights and since moved all in twice to grab the blinds and antes.
Allen Kessler dropped all the way back to 24,500 when he three-bet shoved into an open raise from Randy "nanonoko" Lew. The latter called with but was unable to improve against the of Kessler on a board.
The tournament staff has just announced that they will be playing through Level 18 (three more levels) and then bagging and tagging. Play will resume tomorrow at 1 p.m. local time.