Boyaciyan Seeks To Best Last Year's 2nd-Place Finish; Eliminates Bevand

Last year, David Boyaciyan navigated the field of 722 players to finish as runner-up to Martin Finger in this event, and remarkably he's making another deep run in the Main Event.

In a recent hand, Manuel Bevand opened with a raise only to have Boyaciyan three-bet to 88,000 from the small blind. After the big blind got out of the way, Bevand four-bet to 155,000, Boyaciyan five-bet 380,000, and Bevand six-bet shoved for around 700,000. Boyaciyan snap-called and Bevand discovered the bad news.

Showdown
Bevand:
Boyaciyan:

Bevand was literally left shaking his head and watched helplessly as the board ran out . With that, the field is down to 22 players, which means just one more must go before calling it a night.