While Allan Le lost the fight with his short stack, Josh Pollock was more fortunate and chopped to boost his short stack.
He got it in with 
against the 
of Matthew Schreiber and the board came 
to give him three quarters of the pot.
Pollock was all in once more with 
against the 
of Chris Amaral and the 
board ensured the split pot.
"Someone's going to win a big one," murmured someone at the table as seven players saw a 
flop. It checked to Richard Ashby who bet, with Jim Collopy raising in the next position. It folded back to Ashby who called.
The turn 
was checked by both players. The river was the 
. Ashby bet and Collopy raised. Ashby thought before calling.
Jim Collopy:
Richard Ashby: 
Collopy put his hands to his head in disbelief as Ashby took down the pot.
Allan Le raised and picked up two callers including Delmiro Toledo and Jake Schwartz in the blinds. On the 
turn, the action escalated as Toledo was all in for 50,000 and Schwartz for 56,000. Le made the call to put two players at risk in the following showdown:
Delmiro Toledo: 
Jake Schwartz: 
Allan Le: 
The fell on the river and Schwartz essentially tripled up, while Toledo was eliminated. Ylon Schwartz also ran out of chips shortly after on a different table.
On a flop Andrey Zaichenko checked and Derek McMaster bet. John Racener raised and Zaichenko called. McMaster then re-raised, Racener was all in and Zaichenko called.
The pair checked the runout and Zaichenko showed 
for a pair of fives. Racener showed 
for a pair of tens, with McMaster mucking. He said he mucked 
.
Level: 14
Limits: 8,000/16,000
Ante: 0
Players are heading on their third break of the day, and their last before the dinner break.
When they return the limits will be 8,000/16,000.
Andrey Zaichenko raised and got calls from Derek McMaster as well as Phil Ivey on the button. Chris Bjorin raised in the small blind and was all in for 18,000.
The other players all called and the flop 
was checked around. The turn was the and Zaichenko checked to McMaster who bet and got two calls.
The river was checked. Zaichenko showed 
for an eight-five low and a pair of fours. McMaster mucked and Ivey showed 
for a pair of queens.
Bjorin double checked his cards before opening 
face up on the table and he was eliminated.
Perry Friedman was all in with the 
and Ryan Miller looked him up with the 
. On a board of 
, Miller's two pair with nines and treys scooped the pot and Friedman was eliminated.
"Alright, you win the glasses," he said and pushed over his sunglasses to Miller.
Sam Higgs bet throughout a board of and forced folds from Mike Wattel and John Racener to get his stack up to around 445,000. That was the start of a rush for the Aussie, as he continued with plenty of aggression.
In the next hand he defended out of the small blind against a raise by Philip Sternheimer and check-called on the flop. Higgs check-raised the turn and Sternheimer called before Higgs bet the river as well. Sternheimer called all in and was shown the 
for a flush and a low. Sternheimer only had and was eliminated.
Higgs took on Wattel and Racener once more and this time it was just Racener that called a river bet on 
. Higgs rolled over for a full house and scored the next pot.
One hand later, Chris Bjorin was all in after four-way action to the turn as Andrey Zaichenko had led. Higgs called in the cutoff and also called another bet by Zaichenko on the river.
Zaichenko 
) and Bjorin chopped the low and Higgs took the high portion with .
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