Bruno Politano opened to 50,000 before Daniel Tang three-bet to 165,000 from two seats over.
Politano called, and the flop landed 
and after Politano checked, Tang bet 115,000 and Politano folded.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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3,695,000 | 615,000 |
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720,000 | -328,000 |
The following players earned $37,705 for their efforts.
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While it's unclear how all the money got in the middle and one what street, Brad Albrinck was all in and at risk against Tomas Novotny. Novotny had the covering stack and was holding 
while Albrinck just had 
. The board was showing 
and while both player flopped a pair of aces, Novotny also flopped a second pair of nines. Albrinck never caught up and that meant he was sent to the rail while Novotny moved over one million chips.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,360,000 | 426,000 |
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Paul Balzano opened and Loc Nguyen three-bet to 135,000. Thomas Macdonald called before Balzano four-bet all in for 381,000. Nguyen flat-called and Macdonald five-bet all in for 1,172,000.
Nguyen went into the tank, apologizing to his tablemates before making the call.
Loc Nguyen: 
Paul Balzano: 
Thomas Macdonald: 
Macdonald was in a commanding position to secure the double up. The flop came 
with Balzano calling for hearts. However, the 
runout secured the double for Macdonald and sent Balzano to the rail.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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2,750,000 | 1,499,000 |
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325,000 | -649,000 |
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Noe Cantu opened early and called a three-bet to 200,000 from Ubaid Habib in the cutoff. The flop came 
and Cantu checked. Habib bet 150,000 and Cantu made it 450,000. He had about 700,000 back and Habib tanked a couple of minutes until a clock was called. He timed down until his hand was dead.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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2,840,000 | -460,000 |
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1,800,000 | 670,000 |
Shannon Shorr and Kelly Minkin were heads up on the 
board. Shorr checked and Minkin bet 125,000 into a main pot of over 300,000. Shorr called and the river was the 
.
Shorr checked and Minkin threw out a bet of 250,000. Shorr quickly called and Minkin turned over 
for just ace high. Shorr tabled for eights and deuces to take the pot.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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4,100,000 | 1,100,000 |
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3,300,000 | -385,000 |
It's been nine years since Joe Cada won the Main Event back in 2009 and while he earned the recognition and the glory after taking down Darvin Moon heads up, there was another player at the final table who is still left in the field as well. James Akenhead came 9th in 2009 taking home a prize of $1,263,602 for his run in the event while Cada took home $8,546,435 for winning.
And now, by the luck of the draw, the two are having a reunion of sorts except this time, Cada is the one with the short stack with just under 500,000 chips and Akenhead sits healthy with a stack of almost 2.4 million. The two are both seated just two seats away from eachother in the Amazon Orange section at table 525.
As players are already deep into this Main Event which has a massive field size, it is quite impressive to see these two once again, trading blows across the table as there is sure to be an interesting dynamic between them.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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2,385,000 | 198,000 |
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495,000 | -64,000 |
The board was down 
, and Kunal Patel was on the button with all his chips in the middle being counted. The hand in front of him was pocket nines and his opponent Shankar Pillai was being made to sacrifice 525,000 from his stack after Patel secured a full double up during the hand.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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1,500,000 | -500,000 |
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1,200,000 | 858,000 |
Dong Kim raised all in from the hijack for 172,000 and Shannon Shorr called from the cutoff with 
, racing with Kim's 
.
The board came down 
, giving Kim queens and jacks to double through Shorr.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
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3,000,000 | -243,000 |
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398,000 | 224,000 |
Kelly Minkin opened to 50,000 from early position and Mina Greco shoved all in for around 170,000 from the cutoff. The action was back on Minkin who made the call rather quickly.
Kelly Minkin: 
Mina Greco:
The flop came and Minkin hit one of her live cards twice to leave Greco in bad shape. The turn was the to give Greco some hope, but the on the river spelled an end to Greco's run.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
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3,685,000 | 510,000 |
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