Nicholas Grippo opened to 80,000 from the cutoff. Erwann Pecheux in the small blind three-bet to 255,000, Grippo moved all-in for 1,040,000 and Pecheux snap-called.
Nicholas Grippo: 8♥8♣ 
Erwann Pecheux: A♠K♣
Grippo's eights held on 9♠Q♣7♦Q♥5♥ and he doubled up.
Erwann Pecheux raised it up from under the gun and Brandon Sheils called on the button. They went heads-up to a flop of A♥Q♦4♦ where Pecheux continued with a bet of 80,000. Sheils called and the K♠ landed on the turn.
Pecheux sized up a bet of 325,000 on the turn and Sheils stuck around for the 8♠ on the river. Pecheux checked this time and Sheils slid out a bet of 715,000. Pecheux dumped his cards into the muck and Sheils raked in the pot.
PokerNews joined the table when Mustapha Kanit went all in from under the gun. Arnaud Enselme had already committed 550,000 to the pot and had just 90,000 behind. He went deep into the tank, one shy away from the pay jump. When a dealer announced "Payout!" at one of the other tables, his stack went in the middle, and the cards went on their backs.
Arnaud Enselme: A♣7♣
Mustapha Kanit: 7♦7♥
The flop ran out Q♣10♥9♠, giving Enselme plenty of outs. The turn showed the A♥ for a better pair and no sweat on the K♠ as Enselme's pair of aces still held strong.
The action folded around to Brent Sibley in the small blind who dropped in a stack of 400,000 chips. Alexandros Kolonias was one of the egregious tankers on the pay jumps and eventually called off his last 150,000 chips without the clock having to be called this time.
Alexandros Kolonias: A♠3♠
Brent Sibley: J♥8♠
The flop came Q♣8♥8♣ to give Sibley trip eights and Kolonias was nearly drawing dead. The 2♠ and 5♠ runout sealed his fate but Kolonias was left staring at the board for a minute, waiting for his payout without getting a pay jump.
Renan Bruschi in the cutoff was all-in and at risk for 405,000 against Marius Gierse under the gun.
Renan Bruschi: 7♥7♠
Marius Gierse: A♥J♣
Bruschi hit a full house on Q♥7♦3♦4♣3♣ and secured a double up.
Level: 23
Blinds: 20,000/40,000
Ante: 40,000
Life Outside Poker is a podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level.
In the 30th episode, Connor talks with 2024 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Tamayo about growing up in Humble, Texas, studying hotel management at Cornell University, graduating during the 2008 recession, running deep in the 2009 and 2015 Main Events, his friendship with fellow Main Event champion Joe McKeehen, winning the biggest-ever WSOP Main Event for $10 million, and his first purchase as world champion.
Tamayo also spoke about his infamous fold with pocket queens late in the 2024 Main Event, which he says cost him $120,000 in equity, and gave his thoughts on new rules implemented at the 2025 WSOP in the wake of "LaptopGate," as well as the Main Event structure and Phil Hellmuth's proposed boycott that he has since rescinded.
The 36 remaining players are now on their first break of the day.
Thomas Cannuli was seen walking away after his 335,000-chip stack from the hijack was called by Matthew Zambanini in the big blind.
Thomas Cannuli: J♥J♦
Matthew Zambanini: A♦10♠
Zambanini flopped trips on K♣A♥A♣8♣Q♥ and sent Cannuli to the rail. Anthony Zinno was eliminated at the same time on a different table.
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