Stephen Hubbard defended the big blind and then got it in against William Benson on a flop of 
.
The 
of Hubbard had the nut flush draw against Benson with the 
and instead of spiking another diamond, he got there with the 
turn and 
river for a straight instead.
On a board of 
, Peter Brooks made jacks full of kings and Roee Shalom called down with what appeared to have been 
according to other players at the table.
Trevor Hebert was the next to fall and right after, followed by Abdullah Faiz. The latter was all-in with a short stack and joked "I need an ace" when he got it in with the ... 
. Ronald Keijzer was well behind with the 
which caused some confusion on the table as to why Faiz would need an ace.
Sure enough, the board ran out 
and Keijzer made sevens full of kings.
Badr Imejjane saw his stack reduced to fumes when Thair Kallabat flopped trips and rivered a flush with the 
on a board of 
.
While the eliminations in the money don't come at a rapid pace, the field has already reached some 71 hopefuls still in contention. The last two players to head to the payout desk were Jacob Baumgartner and Mark Stockton.
Elior Sion claimed the chips of Stockton when his 
made the top set on the 
board and came out on top with it.
Tom McCormick was down to a couple of big blinds Saturday, but somehow spun up his stack to survive to Day 2, and now in the money, he's still here with what he and his table have said is a never-ending string of short-stack survival and double-ups.
McCormick got his last 20,000 in against Aden Salazar, and after his 
survived against Salazar's 
with a king on the river of the 
board, the boisterous McCormick stood up with his trademark glass of red wine and proclaimed "I'm 19-0-4 in all ins! I can not be defeated!!"
The room laughed, and McCormick then raised his glass and said warmly, "seriously though, here's to the rest of the players in the 10k PLO. I love you all."
In a previous hand, Tommy Le had bet the flop for 35,000 in the cutoff to then fold when Yarin Cohen raised the pot to 195,000 on the button.
He then got involved in three-way action against Jeff Madsen from under the gun and Ronald Keijzer on the button. The flop showed and Madsen made it 37,000 to go. Le then jammed for 49,000 in the hijack and Keijzer reraised the pot to force out Madsen.
Tommy Le:
Ronald Keijzer: 
Le needed another diamond but that hope became obsolete when the turn improved Keijzer to quads, which made the river a formality.
As the title says, in a six-way limped pot with several short stacks involved including Tom McCormick, Bruno Fitoussi, and Jared Jaffe, the six-pack of players saw a flop of 
.
Everyone folded to Aden Salazar and his definitely not short stack on the button, and he fired out 70,000.
None of the other five players had anything to challenge him with and Salazar took down the pot uncontested.
Joining the action on the turn, Mauricio Ferreira Pais checked and then called a bet worth 145,000 by the table big stack Aden Salazar. As they headed to the on the river, both players checked and Ferreira Pais tabled the for the second nut flush to chip up.
The cards were already on their backs and Thair Kallabat paid off the 102,000 stack of Kristopher Tate when the latter had made queens full on a board of 
with the 
.
Just before paying off, Kallabat grabbed his cards again and exposed the for a mere second before the next hand kicked off.
At the same time one table over, Philip Wiszowaty eventually sent the entire stack over to his nemesis Michael Duek who pulled way ahead at the top of the leaderboard.
On a completed board of 
, Jeff Hakim bet 75,000 out of the small blind. That sent Tommi Lankinen into the tank and he eventually called after more than three minutes.
Hakim tabled the for the top two pair and nut flush blocker. However, it was Lankinen who won the pot as his 
had made a flush.
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