Daniel Vida was seen raking in a chunky pot at the expense of Seth Fischer.
The full board read 7♠Q♣3♠5♦2♦ and all the chips had found their way into the middle by the time the river card was dealt. Fischer showed A♣Q♦ for top pair, top kicker, but Vida held A♠A♦ for pocket aces to scoop the pot.
Nitesh Rawtani was big blind and all in against Travis To on the button.
Nitesh Rawtani: 10♥7♦
Travis To: K♥10♠
The board layout brought no comfort to Rawtani, who busted out in 201st place.
On the next hand, To pushed all in from the cutoff, but didn't get any callers.
Paul Lozano shipped in 215,000 from under the gun and Matthew Russell also shoved around 700,000 from the next seat.
Paul Lozano: Q♦J♠
Matthew Russell: 9♥9♦
It was a fair fight and one that went the way of Russell as his pocket nines held on the A♦5♦A♠2♦6♠ board, leaving Lozano to head to the payout desk.
Derrick Stoebe had his stack of around 300,000 in the middle and was put at risk by the better hand of Chi Nguyen.
Derrick Stoebe: A♦8♦
Chi Nguyen: A♠K♠
Stoebe was looking for an eight, but the J♣3♥2♦7♣Q♣ runout didn't deliver, which meant he was eliminated.
Level: 24
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 40,000
John Lombardo went all in with his last 395,000 chips. Taylor Shepard, in the cutoff made an all-in raise, driving out the button and blinds. Lombardo groaned when he saw what he was up against.
John Lombardo: 10♥10♠
Taylor Shepard J♥J♠
The runout of 7♥K♣2♦8♠3♦ didn't give Lombardo the help he needed.
With play just starting for the day, action was not daunting to players looking to take down this event. Before the flop, Jonmichael Gisler raised to 130,000 from the cutoff and Rodrigo Zouvi called in late position.
The flop came A♠3♠J♥ and Gisler moved all in for 480,000 and Zouvi called. Players revealed their hole cards.
Jonmichael Gisler: A♦J♠
Rodrigo Zouvi: A♥6♥
Gisler had Zouvi dominated with his two pair heading to the turn of a J♦, giving him a full house, which left Zouvi drawing dead.
As a K♥ river couldn't change anything, the dealer counted out Gisler's remaining chips and he doubled to over one million.
Tony Dam, who entered the day with the shortest chip stack at only 20,000 was an early casualty. Dam went all in from early position in a hand that saw the button, big blind and under the gun go to the flop.
The flop dropped 3♠10♥K♠, prompting a bet from Laksh Singh on the button that drew folds from Brennan Benglis and John Kysel. Dam was still in for the main pot.
Tony Dam: A♣8♦
Laksh Singh: A♦A♥
Dam began packing up when he saw the bad news. The turn and river K♣5♠ mattered not.
Lester Edoc opened to 65,000 from early position and Charles Swan shoved for around 300,000 from the hijack. Owen Gazette shoved behind for a little more, and Edoc folded.
Charles Swan: A♦9♥
Owen Gazette: A♥Q♥
Gazette was in the lead with a superior kicker and maintained it throughout the 5♥2♣7♣8♠4♦ runout, which left Swan on the sidelines.
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