Eric Baldwin raised to 6,000 from early position to see Levon Khachatryan call in the small blind. In the big blind, Steven Rivero raised to 26,000 prompting Baldwin to jam for 103,000. Khachatryan folded while Rivero called with the covering stack.
Eric Baldwin: A♥K♣ 
Steven Rivero: Q♥Q♣
The board ran out 10♠8♥7♠3♥5♥ and the queens held up for Rivero to eliminate the WSOP bracelet winner from the tournament.
Aleksandr Boitcov opened from early position and was called by Michael Banducci in the cutoff and Michael Weiss in the big blind.
On the 6♠5♦2♦ flop, Weiss checked to Boitcov, who bet 7,000 and Banducci called. Weiss then check-raised to 35,000, and both opponents called.
Weiss led for a healthy size of 115,000 on the 8♠ turn, sending Boitcov into the tank for a while before he folded, and Banducci called quickly.
On the 9♥ turn, Weiss slowed down with a check before Banducci bet 205,000, and Weiss opted to lay down his hand after a minute's tank, conceding a massive pot to the chipleader without showdown.
From the big blind, Day 2abc chipleader Gaspar Fernandez tossed a bet of 45,000 on the completed board of 9♥6♠2♠4♠6♣. Shane Carreja quickly looked him up with a call.
Fernandez tabled Q♠6♥ for trip sixes, but it was no good as Carreja had turned a straight with 5♣3♣ to take the pot.
Fernandez was left with exactly a starting stack, still worth 20 big blinds at this point in the Main Event.
Three players vaulted out of their seats with Usman Ulhaq and Paul Mizrachi up against Ludovic Moryousef, with the latter two holding near-identical stack sizes right in front of the feature table area.
Usman Ulhaq: 2♦2♣
Paul Mizrachi: A♥K♠
Ludovic Moryousef: Q♠Q♣
Mizrachi predicted the deuce to come for Ulhaq, which it did on the 7♣3♣3♦2♠ turn. However, there was another twist to the story as the river brought the Q♥ to propel Moryousef back into the lead.
"Most overrated hand in poker," James Kohl mentioned while the chips were being counted.
"Please tell me I still have chips," Mizrachi said, but that wasn't the case as his 229,000 was covered by Moryousef's 241,000.
Mizrachi left the table with a smile on his face despite his elimination and even took a selfie with Moryousef before they parted ways.
"That is a gentleman right there. His dad is the same," Kohl added after he had shaken the hand of Mizrachi on the way out.
Richard Mullen opened to 6,000 from middle position before Phil Hellmuth three-bet to 26,000 in the cutoff, and Mullen called.
On the 7♦5♣3♥ flop, Mullen checked and Hellmuth immediately checked behind.
Mullen led for 18,000 on the 2♣ turn and Hellmuth called quickly.
The river brought the 2♠ as Mullen put out a bet of 44,000. This street, Hellmuth took some time before he cut out calling chips and tossed them into the middle. Mullen tabled 9♠9♦ for the winner.
"Wow!" a stunned Hellmuth reacted, "Great bet."
"I still wanna play with you every day, but you won the max."
"The Poker Brat" continued to switch between insults and compliments for the next few minutes.
"He overplays so many hands, but he got the max this time," he continued, "Not many people in this tournament would get that much."
Hellmuth then muttered various expletives under his breath for a while before he flipped the switch again, "This is one of those where you just have to give a compliment."
Two hands later, it seemed that Hellmuth had finally moved on from his stay at the Value Town, courtesy of Mullen.
At another table in the same room, his son Phil Hellmuth III was eliminated, ending the Main Event dream for him and his investors.
As retold by a player at the table, the action had checked to Jarod Ludemann in the small blind, who limped in. Joe Hindry checked his option in the big blind.
The J♥4♦2♠ flop saw Ludemann start with a check, and Hindry bet 7,500. Ludemann then check-raised to 19,000, which Hindry called before the 2♣ turn checked through.
The J♠ river saw fireworks, as Ludemann bet 75,000, and Hindry responded by moving all in for 236,000. Ludemann made the call before it was revealed that he had been victim to a Main Event cooler.
Ludemann tabled his J♦2♦ for a full house, but was behind to the J♣4♣ of Hindry, who had rivered a better boat.
After some preflop raising, there was 35,000 in the pot, and it was heads-up to the flop of 9♠7♦10♥.
Truong Nguyen checked from the small blind to Ren Lin in late position, who fired out 15,000. Nguyen thought for a while and moved all in for his last 51,000. Lin snap-called.
Truong Nguyen: Q♦J♠
Ren Lin: K♠10♦
Lin was ahead but not by much, and Nguyen had a bunch of outs to stay alive. The J♦ peeled off on the turn and gave Nguyen a higher pair. The A♦ on the river changed nothing, and Nguyen was shipped the pot for a double-up.
Gregor Sverko raised to 6,500 in the hijack. Zachary Schwartz three-bet to 18,000 on the button, and Sverko called to the K♥5♣3♥ flop.
Once Sverko had checked, Schwartz continued for 18,000. Sverko then raised to 30,500, which quickly got Schwartz out of the pot.
At the same table, Arturas Astrauskas had mountains of chips in front of him, on the verge of becoming the first player to crack 1,000,000 in chips.
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi opened to 7,000 in the hijack to see Brian Smith call in the big blind.
The flop rolled out Q♠9♥9♦, and both players checked to the turn 6♥, where Mizrachi bet 3,000 after being checked to, prompting Smith to raise to 12,000.
Mizrachi matched the bet, and Smith moved all in for 31,500 on the river 7♥ to see Mizrachi snap-call.
Brian Smith: Q♣9♣
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi: 7♠7♦
Smith had flopped nines-full, with Mizrachi having rivered an inferior sevens-full. Smith raked in the pot at the expense of the defending champion.
The cards of Corey Wick were already in the muck and he had to pay off a double worth 174,500 to Barry Hutter on the other side of the table, who still had his A♠A♦ exposed on a board of K♥8♥2♥K♣3♠.
According to Hutter, they got it in preflop with Wick holding pocket queens including the Q♥ to pick up a flush draw that eventually bricked.
One hand after the disastrous setback, Wick jammed the remainder of his short stack and picked up the blinds.
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