After biding his time and enduring cold cards for a few hours, Roberto Romanello got it in with against the of Daniel Granov. The board ran out and Granov sent 40,500 across the table to the small blind.
Two blinds checked to John Racener in middle position, and he bet 9,000 on a flop. Only big blind Daniel Granov continued. Granov check-called again when Racener downbet 7,900 on the , and both checked the . Granov opened and Racener mucked.
Matthew Soyk was in the cutoff and had a shorter-stacked player on the button all in and at risk preflop with against . The flop helped Soyk's opponent greatly, but running and gave Soyk trips and a knockout.
According to Ryan Leng, Rex Clinkscales shoved the last of his chips in over a late-position open from John Racener and found his dominated by . Clinkscales found no improvement on the board, and his heroic rise from just a couple of big blinds found its end in the money.
Eilert Eilertsen called off his 21,100 in the big blind after the small blind moved all in preflop. Eilertsen was dominated with against but the board ran out , much to the disgust of the small blind. Eilertsen doubled through and someone went bust at another table, so the remaining 27 players are drawing new seats.
Kristen Bicknell reportedly lost most of her stack after flopping kings and jacks with on against a player with . Unfortunately for her, they got stacks in and a queen hit the board, and she was eliminated a short time later.
Vladimir Troyanovskiy got his last 25,000 or so in preflop from the big blind with and had an opponent in the cutoff with dominated. Unfortunately for Troyanovskiy, a king-high flop hit and he lost all but his last 600, which was forced in the middle the following hand en route to his elimination.