Chad Eveslage raised and called a three-bet from Dzmitry Urbanovich. Eveslage proceeded to call bets on fourth and fifth, before both players checked on sixth street.
After two more checks on seventh, Eveslage revealed two pair while Urbanovich tapped the table and mucked his cards.
A few hands later, Urbanovich was seen exiting the tournament area after losing the last of his short stack.
Scott Lake was already all-in and awaiting his fate while Craig Chait and Koray Aldemir played for the side pot. Chait bet fifth and sixth street as they then checked seventh. Chait announced jacks up and Aldemir tabled his queens-up for Chait to all but muck his cards.
"I have a ten-nine, just so you know," Lake said as he exposed the first two cards. He then peeled the last card and it was a blank five to end his tournament.
At the same time, Maria Ho was also spotted on her way out of the tournament area as well.
Only 96 players remain and among the latest casualties was also Renan Bruschi. He had some outs in a Razz hand against Larry Bernstein as he peeled the final card, hoping for a nine, seven or six according to the table chat.
Bernstein had his fully exposed and Bruschi bricked seventh street to mesh his board right away before heading out of the tournament area.
John Veltri raised under the gun to see calls from Maxx Coleman in the hijack and Dario Sammartino in the cutoff. The trio saw a flop of and Veltri continued with a bet.
Coleman called while Sammartino raised, and the chips were committed to see the turn. The action checked to Sammartino's bet and the calls were tossed in again before Veltri led out on the river.
Coleman called, Sammartino raised, and all three players went to showdown.
Dario Sammartino:
Maxx Coleman:
John Veltri:
Sammartino took the high with his flush, while Veltri and Coleman took half of the low with their wheels.
A total of 209 entries created a prize pool worth $1,948,925 and the top 32 spots will get paid at least $16,155 for their efforts. The winner can look forward to a payday of $487,129 and the highly sought-after WSOP gold bracelet.
Dustin Dirksen and Shaun Deeb got most of the chips of the former in after the flop before the last of it went in after the turn. Dirksen tabled the while Deeb had the for a straight. A blank followed on the river and they chopped it.
Soon after, the flop got the chips in between them once more.
Dustin Dirksen:
Shaun Deeb:
The turn and river secured the double for Dirksen.
With 32,000 invested so far by Mike Noori to the river, he faced another bet by Eric Rodawig who had very few chips behind in a battle of the shorter stacks.
Noori went into the tank for nearly six minutes and nobody called the clock. Nick Guagenti jokingly teased tossing in chips for the next blind when Noori finally folded.
"Please show a bluff," Guagenti said, and Rodawig flashed the before scooping the pot.
"That's not a bluff," Noori insisted.
Guagenti followed that up with, "this gotta be a new world record for a tank in a HORSE tournament" to which Hansu Chu smiled and nodded in agreement.
When all was said and done, Noori was left with very few chips.