Bryce McVay opened to 80,000 from the hijack, Nirath Rean reraised to about 1,000,000 from the button, Mantas Bagocius called all in from the big blind for about 520,000, and McVay called all in for about 1,000,000.
McVay: 
Rean: 
Bagocius: 
The board came down 
, giving Rean aces up to eliminate both of his opponents.
The board of 
was spread and roughly 300,000 sat in the middle.
Vicent Bosca Ramon checked from the big blind over to Alexander Lynskey who bet 575,000.
Ramon deliberated for a while, and then made the call.
Lynskey immediately revealed his 
for trips, and Ramon mucked.
Antonio Esfandiari raised to 90,000 from under the gun, and when the action folded around to Jacob Kipfer in the big blind, he moved all in for 570,000. Esfandiari made the call and put Kipfer's tournament life at risk.
Jacob Kipfer: 
Antonio Esfandiari:
Board: 
Kipfer saw the board brick for Esfandiari, and he secured a full double-up on the secondary feature table.
On a completed board of 
, James Obst checked and Cole Miller moved all in for 445,000. It looked to be less than a third of the massive pot between the three players, and Nikolaos Platis was in the tank from the cutoff. Finally, he dropped in calling chips and Obst folded.
Miller revealed 
for quads and Platis mucked his 
.
Rocco Palumbo stuck his last 90,000 in from the big blind on 
and got called by Peter Nguyen, who held . Palumbo was crushed with and the turn and 
river ensured his demise.
Rocco Palumbo opened to 90,000 from under the gun, action folded to Brent Ballentine in the cutoff, and he moved all in for 755,000. The action passed back to Palumbo and he called.
Palumbo:
Ballentine:
The board ran out 
and Ballentine doubled through.
Matas Cikinas opened with a raise to 80,000 and he was called by Mike Cordell in the cutoff before Vivek Rughani made it 325,000 on the button. Action folded back to Cikinas who called while Cordell quickly got out of the way.
The flop came down 
and Cikinas checked to Rughani. Rughani put out a bet of 300,000 and Cikinas thought for a bit before moving all in with a covering stack for 400,000 more, effective. Rughani snap-called.
Vivek Rughani:
Matas Cinikas:
Both players had overpairs to the board and Cinikas didn't catch up on the turn or the river, so Rughani earned a double.
Jamie Flynn opened second to act and then called the shove of Brian Borne, who had 610,000 a couple of seats over. Flynn had 
and was flipping against . The 
runout had Borne heading to payouts.
Samuel Bernabeu was one of the chip leaders toward the end of Day 2ab, and is still in contention with around 165 players remaining.
In this hand, he opened to 85,000 from the cutoff and Krasimir Yankov defended his big blind. The flop came and both players checked. Yankov bet 155,000 on the turn and Bernabeu called.
The river was the 
. Yankov put Bernabeu all in for his last 725,000 and, after a lengthy tank, Bernabeu called. Yankov showed 
for trip jacks, but Bernabeu had him outkicked with .
Jaime Kaplan raised to 90,000 from middle position and Andres Jeckeln called in the hijack. Matthew Stein moved all in for 615,000 from the big blind and Kaplan tank-called. Jeckeln thought for a moment but elected to fold.
Matthew Stein:
Jaime Kaplan:
It was a coinflip heading to the flop which saw the . Kaplan took the lead with a pair of jacks and the on the turn improved him to two pair. The river was the and Stein was eliminated with his pair of tens.
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