Chad Lipton opened the action with a raise to 6,000 from the hijack. The cutoff player moved all in for 37,500 and Lipton made the call.
Cutoff: A♠K♣ 
Chad Lipton: A♦Q♠
The board ran out J♦9♠A♣5♠Q♣ and Lipton caught his queen on the river to stack his opponent and inch near the 500,000-chip mark.
Nicholas Howard was heads-up from the big blind against the player on the button on a flop of K♥7♠2♥.
Howard proceeded to check-call his opponent down. First for 4,000 on flop, then for 21,500 on the 3♠ turn, and finally for 24,000 after the J♦ completed the board.
The button could only show 5♥4♦ for a busted straight draw and Howard turned over 10♦7♣ for a pair of sevens to claim the pot.
Domenico Micillo checked from the small blind to Jason Raber in middle positon. Raber then jammed all in on the 9♠10♣8♣4♠ board for a bet of 57,500, slightly less than the pot.
Micillo tried to get some information out of his opponent before putting in a call with the covering stack.
Jason Raber: Q♦J♣
Domenico Micillo: 5♣4♣
Raber just needed to fade a club and he did just so when the 4♥ river gave Micillo a no-good three of a kind.
There was a three-way pot going on as the board read Q♣8♠7♣3♠. The pot had around 43,000 in it. Tom Dwan was in middle position and took some time before acting. Eventually he bet 32,000. Bradley Mercer called in the big blind and an early position player with the shortest stack came along as well with the call to build the pot even more.
The river came the 9♦. Dwan was again deliberate with his action as he stood up to assess both stacks of his opponents, with the early position player having about 42,000 effective. After over a minute, Dwan fired 65,000.
Mercer quickly folded and so did the early position player and Dwan took down the chunky pot.
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Shortly afterwards, Dwan eliminated the same early position player when he shoved for about 62,000 with A♠K♠ and Dwan's QxQx held up in the run out.
Dave Mcleod opened the action with a raise to 6,000 from the button. Lee Swerdlin moved all in for 39,000 from the big blind and Mcleod made the call.
Lee Swerdlin: A♣K♦
Dave Mcleod: 8♣8♦
The board ran out 5♠3♣Q♠8♠K♣ and Mcleod's turned set awarded him the pot and an elimination.
Picking up the action partway through the hand, Sean Posner in early position and Naseem Salem from under the gun had gotten their two short stacks in the middle with Salem covering Posner.
Sean Posner: A♣Q♥
Naseem Salem: K♣K♦
Posner was not in great shape with his tournament life on the line. The 9♥5♥Q♣ flop did give the at risk player some hope but the 4♠ turn and 4♣ river kept the cowboys best to hand the pot and knockout to Salem.
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