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Jonathan "driverseati" Tamayo finished 21st at the Main Event last year, but he won't get a chance to improve on that this year. Tamayo moved all in from middle position for 110,000, and Paul Varano called him out of the big blind.
Tamayo: 
Varano: 
The board fell 
, and Tayamo's tournament came to an end. Varano has 295,000.
Hoyt Corkins was all-in pre-flop for his last 200,000 with 
, but had the misfortune of running in to Pavel Milaov's pocket aces.
"All right, see you guys next year," Corkins said as the board ran out 
.
Milanov is up to 1.7 million.
Manuel Davidian opened to 24,000 from the cutoff, and Laurentius Sloot called from the small blind.
The two men went heads up to a flop of 
, and Sloot check-called a bet of 35,000. Davidian fired another 80,000 on the 
turn, and 100,000 on the 
river, and Sloot called both bets to see the showdown.
Sloot showed first, revealing his 
. That was better than Davidian could do; he mucked, and he's slipped back to 985,000. Sloot, on the other hand, is starting to get a little healthier with 635,000 now.
The board read 
between Hugo Franca and Matt Affleck. Franca had check-raised Affleck on the flop with Affleck making the call. On the turn, Franca checked again to Affleck before Affleck fired 100,000. Franca check-raised again, making it 260,000 to go. Affleck tanked and made the call.
The river completed the board with the 
and Franca tank-shoved for 486,000. Affleck went into the tank for quite some time. After several minutes passed while ESPN shot the scene, Affleck made the call. Franca mucked his hand to signify that he couldn't win and Affleck tabled the for just top pair, top kicker.
Affleck raked in the massive pot and is now over three million in chips.
"What the f**k is going on?" said Ryan Dodge, who was sitting in the small blind as this hand unfolded.
Our eyebrows were raised too. See if you can follow along.
Garrett Beckman opened for 24,000 from under-the-gun. Jose Nadal called from UTG+1, and Alan Keating three-bet to 75,000. Vazgen Terpogosyan cold-called on the button, David Baker called from the big blind, and with the action back on Beckman, he four-bet to 210,000. Nadal folded, Keating folded, Terpogosyan called, and Baker folded.
Got that?
The flop came down 
. Beckman snap-shoved for 900,000 and Terpogosyan snap-called for his remaining 487,000.
Beckman 
Terpogosyan 
Beckman's kings were miles ahead of Terpogosyan's underpair and gutshot straight draw, but the 
hit the turn, making Terpogosyan a set. The 
on the river filled him up and Terpogosyan raked in the 1.68 million pot, leaving a stunned Beckman with only 520,000.
Shawn Rice raised to 25,000, and Pkejmanpatric Eskander called from the small blind. The flop fell 
, and Eskander checked to Rice, who bet 35,000. Eskander called, and both players checked the 
on the turn. The river was the 
, and they checked that as well. Rice turned over 
, but Eskander had out-turned him with 
. "You called me with ace-jack. You did the right thing," said Rice sarcastically. "It was suited," responded Eskander. "Oh, it was suited. Ok." Rice wasn't happy to have further reduced his already short stack.
A few minutes later, after a player in early position raised to 17,000, Rice moved all in from the small blind. The big blind folded, and Rice showed an ace. He'd apparently overlooked the early raiser and thought he was open-shoving on the big blind. After seeing the ace, the raiser folded. Rice moved back to 200,000 but was given a one-orbit penalty for exposing a card with action pending.
Iconic poker television producer Mori Eskandani has been eliminated from the field. He was part of a three-way flop of 
with Mikhail Timoshin and Sanghyon Cheong. The three players a total of roughly 210,000 chips into the pot pre-flop. Timoshin had first action on the flop and checked it to Eskandani. Eskandani weighed his options before moving all in for roughly 460,000 total. Cheong quickly called with , which was incredibly bad news for Eskandani's . The turn and river blanked out, 
and . That meant Eskandani busted out and Cheong became the new chip leader with almost 2.6 million chips
Just after that hand in which Arkadiy Tsinis doubled up through David Liu, he was all in once again in a hand versus David Emmons. All of the chips went in on the turn with the board showing 
. Tsinis had for the overpair, but unfortunately for him he was against Emmons' 
-- a set of sevens.
The river was the , and Tsinis was eliminated. Emmons moves back to 560,000.
Brett Puffer was all in for about 180,000 before the flop, and he was called down by Patrick Hartnett who had the covering stack. The news was good for Puffer, though; his 
was in fine shape against Hartnett's 
.
Things stayed rosy on the board, and Puffer's bigger full house earns him the double up to 395,000.
Hartnett - 927,000
