Towards the end of the second level on Day Two, only eight tables remain. The latest casualties can be found below as 63 contenders are in the mix with 32 spots paid.
Nate Silver: / /
Brad Ruben: / folded on fifth
Eric Rodawig: / /
Matt Szymaszek: / /
Matt Szymaszek bet fifth street with his pair of eights to get called by Nate Silver and Eric Rodawig while Brad Ruben got out of the way. On sixth street, they checked and Rodawig bet on seventh to earn two calls.
Rodawig tabled the for a pair of sevens, seven low and missed gutshot. Szymaszek had a superior high hand but earned no portion of the pot as Silver revealed for two pair.
"Damn, I had a lot of outs to scoop there, nice hand," Rodawig told Silver in table chat.
Donny Rubinstein got out of the way on what appeared to have been fifth street while Chris Tryba raised on sixth and Kevin Song then reraised for Tryba to get his last 25,000 into the middle. Both players had the exact identical hand until then when they flipped em over.
"Just let me know if I have to improve," Tryba demanded and Song peeled very slowly to then expose the for the gin card. Treby was left with a miracle to a chop if he caught a deuce as well but instead spiked a king to hit the rail.
Ralph Perry had just taken a seat at the table and was immediately heads up against Donny Rubinstein, who slid his last few chips into the middle.
The two revealed their holdings, and Perry caught up by fifth street and was ahead on seventh. Rubinstein flipped over his final card, but was unable to improve ending his tournament run.
The tides keep changing over on table 144 as former big stack Chad Eveslage had lost a ton of chips while Michael Parizon and Ray Henson trended up. Henson then lost a small chunk of his stack in a showdown pot with Philip Sternheimer when they checked seventh street.
Sternheimer tabled treys and deuces to win it all and engaged in table chat with Roland Israelashvili shortly after.
"So are you going to min-cash this event?" he asked and Israelashvili replied "no, I gonna win this one."
Moments later, Sternheimer followed that up with a "I am just teasing, nobody does it better than you," Sternheimer added, referring to the impressive resume of deep runs in WSOP tournaments by Israelashvili.
Things then went from bad to worse when Eveslage missed a double draw against Jerry Wong to hit the rail.
"The headline should be Jerry busts Chad, just that," one suggestion came from the table while Sternheimer chimed in with a "no, you should added he missed an open-ender and flush draw."
Philip Long called a raise from Anthony Zinno and tossed in calling chips facing a bet on fourth street.
Long then raised on fifth, and called when Zinno re-raised. Both players checked sixth street, and Zinno tapped the table again on seventh. Long bet, producing a fold from Zinno to recover some lost chips.