Mikhail Sniatovskii three-bet a button raise from chip leader Lukas Hafner, going all in with 1,455,000 chips.
Hafner pondered the call for a minute before accepting the challenge.
Mikhail Sniatovskii: A♦Q♥
Lukas Hafner: A♥8♦
Sniatovskii paired his queen on the turn of a 9♠K♦6♥Q♦6♦ runout, to take a chunk of chips off Hafner's stack.
Wayne Payne raised all in to 235,000 under the gun. Aditya Sushant reshoved for 690,000 in the small blind, and big blind Geoffrey Coatar quickly called, covering both players.
Wayne Payne: A♠3♠
Aditya Sushant: A♦Q♠
Geoffrey Coatar: 9♥9♣
As the dealer was getting ready to deal the flop, Coatar repeatedly shouted for a clean runout, while Payne was humming "spades" over and over.
Cotar got his wish while Payne's hymn had no effect when the board ran out J♣7♠4♣7♦6♣. Coatar's nines held up and eliminated his two opponents, and he gave himself a high five to celebrate.
Jordan Levine had around 400,000 in the pot preflop from early position and left himself just a single chip behind. Jonathan Stoeber raised from middle position, and when it got back to Levine, he eventually called.
Jordan Levine: K♣Q♠
Jonathan Stoeber: J♥J♠
Levine wasn't in bad shape and picked up a lot more outs on the 5♠2♠3♠ flop with a flush draw. However, the 7♥ turn and 8♥ river were bricks, meaning he exited as Stoeber's stack grew to almost 4,000,000.
Matthew Morin made it 160,000 from the small blind and Vuong Do took some time before he called in the big blind.
The flop came 7♥7♣10♥ and Morin threw out a bet of 100,000, which Do called.
When the 8♠ hit the turn, both checked to the 3♠ river, where Morin tapped the table again. Do then put out a bet of 170,000, and Morin folded.
"Could you beat ten-eight?" asked Nick Maimone.
"I folded ten-eight on the button," he added.
Do didn't respond and stayed silent while he pulled in the pot.
Daniel Cosner went all in covering both blinds while sitting on the button. Brandon Sunshine called from the big blind for his last 900,000.
Brandon Sunshine: A♣J♣
Daniel Cosner: A♦K♦
The board came A♥K♣10♦6♥3♣
With top two pair, Cosner ended Sunshine's tournament run.
Level: 27
Blinds: 40,000/80,000
Ante: 80,000
Players are now on a 15-minute break.
The action was picked up on the flop of 3♥7♥4♥ and Ravi Raghavan was all in for 395,000.
A brief tense moment arose at the table before Brandon Sunshine made the call with Raghavan at risk.
Ravi Raghavan: 4♦5♦
Brandon Sunshine: Q♠4♠
Sunshine made a good call on the flop with his queen-kicker dominating Raghavan's hand.
A turn card of J♣ brought no help for Raghavan as he stood up and put his backpack on ready to be eliminated.
As luck had it, a miracle came on fifth street as the 5♠ peeled off, giving Ragahavan two pair and a double up.
In the last hand before break, Ernest Hernandez studied a call against Konstantinos Tsikopoulos, who bet 500,000 on the river.
The board read: Q♣K♣2♦10♥6♠, and Hernandez decided to make the all-in call.
Ernest Hernandez: Q♦J♦
Konstantinos Tsikopoulos: A♣8♠
Tsikopoulos' bluff went down to Hernandez' pair of queens.
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