The player in the hijack raised, John "Muscles" Gordon three-bet shoved from the big blind for 8,600, and the initial raiser called with 
, trailing Gordon's 
.
The board came down 
, giving Gordon's opponent a pair of tens to score the elimination.
Luigi Knoppers opened to 2,800 from middle position, and Billy Baxter called from the big blind.
The flop came 
, and Baxter checked. Knoppers bet 3,000, and Baxter called. The turn brought the 
, and Baxter checked. Knoppers bet again, 8,600 this time, and Baxter called. The river was the 
, and both players checked.
Baxter tabled 
for a turned pair of eights, and Knoppers mucked.
With a substantial pot of about 50,000 already brewing and the completed board reading 
, Gregor Waltermann checked from the big blind to his lone opponent, [Removed:153] on the button. Stenholm bet 32,000 and Waltermann went into the tank. He eventually check-raised to what looked like 75,000, Stenholm folded, and Waltermann took the pot.
On a board of 
with around 15,000 in the middle, Mickey Craft's lone opponent in the hand had a single orange T$5,000 chip placed in front of him.
Craft responded with a raise to 10,000, and after a few minutes of deliberation, Craft's opponent three-bet to 37,000.
Craft swiftly called as the river of the 
completed the board and both players checked.
Craft tabled his 
triumphantly, and after a few seconds, his opponent mucked.
As Craft was pushed the pot, he moved his stack to upwards of 580,000 in chips.
Rohan Dhawan raised to 2.800 with 
, Pim de Goede three-bet to 8.000 with 
, and called off his stack of around 25.000 when Dhawan four-bet shoved. The board failed to provide any help for De Goede and he was eliminated.
Sam Greenwood raised to 2,500 in middle position and Ariel Mantel three-bet to 8,000 on the button. The blinds folded and Greenwood called. They went heads up to the flop of and Greenwood checked. Mantel bet another 8,000 and Greenwood moved all in for 45,100 total. Mantel thought for a long while and eventually pushed forward chips to call.
Greenwood:
Mantel: 
Mantel was well ahead with his queens against Greenwood's pair of tens with a queen kicker. The turn gave Greenwood flush outs, and the 
river completed the flush. Greenwood collected the double-up, and Mantel put his head down on the table for several seconds to take in the beat he just took for just more than half of his stack.
We caught up with Seth Berger and Jose Ortiz involved in a pot on the river. The board showed 
and Berger had made a bet of 10,600 into a pot of roughly 15,500. Ortiz was in the cutoff seat and he reraised, making it a total of 40,000 to call.
Berger was deep in the tank and was thinking for roughly two minutes when Ortiz called the clock. A floor man came over, and when Berger's countdown hit 10, he announced a called.
"Three fives," Ortiz said, showing 
.
"F#$@!" Berger said, frustratedly mucking his hand and stacking out the chips to send over.
On the table of Cherish Andrews, there was a raise to 2,400 and Dustin Nelson three-bet to 7,000 from one seat over to receive a call by the initial raiser. The flop came 
and Nelson called a bet worth 6,000 before doing so for 12,000 on the turn.
The 
appeared on the river and Nelson's opponent moved all in. Nelson asked for a count and gave it some consideration before making the call. He was shown 
for trip aces and Nelson had that beat with for a full house.
Some table talk emerged and Nelson added, "He would have ace-four or ace-deuce."
Mikhal Khabarov bagged 45,000 on Day 1a a few days ago.
Unfortunately for Khabarov, he never showed here on Day 2ab and his chip stack has been anteing and blinding away for nearly seven hours now.
On Khabarov's would-be final hand, he was in the small blind for his last 600, and when two people saw the flop, he would officially be eliminated from the tournament.
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