With 49 players still left in contention, four female mixed game specialists are in the mix to battle for their share of the seven-figure prize pool. Esther Taylor and Carol Fuchs are among the shorter stacks while Christina Hill and Shirley Rosario are right in the middle of the pack.
On a completed board of , Maxx Coleman bet and Paul Volpe then raised. After spending some time in the tank, Coleman opted to fold and Volpe raked in the pot.
With plenty of chips already in the middle, Carol Fuchs and Eric Rodawig were heads up on the runout.
Fuchs bet on the river, only to be raised by Rodawig. Fuchs made the call and was shown the as Rodawig had made a straight flush. Fuchs flipped over her while saying "nice hand".
Michael McKenna in the hijack and Ralph Perry in the cutoff were involved in a heads-up pot to the river that was checked through. McKenna tabled the which was good enough to win the pot. Perry only had a few chips behind after he mucked.
One table over, Erik Sagstrom was all-in at the same time.
Seven Card Stud
Erik Sagstrom: / /
Bryce Yockey: / /
While having all the outs in the world for a straight, Sagstrom bricked and crumbled his down cards with the words "no good". The nines and eights of Bryce Yockey won it all and he lamented that it was the first pot he claimed in the level.
"Except for that one hand where you incinerated my face," Mike Matusow chimed in and several players nodded in agreement before mentioning an aces up hand right at the start of the level.
Yockey sits atop the leaderboard closely followed by Mike Gorodinsky, who had just dispatched Andre Akkari.
Craig Chait had already meshed his board to show the hand strength and ended up with an eighty-seven until sixth street. Matt Grapenthien was trailing with an ninety-eight but had chance to survive if he were to peel a trey or five. That wasn't the case as he briefly flashed his final card before heading to the rail.
There are currently 54 players remaining with half an hour left in the third level on Day 2.
Matt Glantz: /
Kazuhiko Yotsushika: /
Ian Johns: /
Kazuhiko Yotsushika was awaiting his fate already when Matt Glantz bet with a pair of sevens showing until fifth, which was called by Ian Johns on the remaining streets. Glantz announced three sevens and that won the pot, as Yotsushika missed a straight and flush draw.