Bojan Gledovic took a hit after a hand in which he was all in with 
against Meenaskshi Subramaniam's 
. The board came 
, and Gledovic had tumbled down to 95,000. Subramaniam moved to 1.65 million on that one.
Soon after, Gledovic was all in with 
against Jeff Banghart's 
. This time the community cards came 
, and Gledovic hit the rail. Banghart has 1.92 million now.
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Another all in at the Red mini-feature table shortly after Tony Dunst doubled up brought us back to the table. Daan Slutter was all in pre-flop for 377,000 with 
. Everyone's favorite thinker, Johnny Lodden, was attempting the knockout with 
.
"I know eights are leading but I'd be more comfortable with the ace-queen," said Slutter. That may have been true pre-flop, but we imagine Slutter was happy to have the eights after Lodden whiffed a board of 
. That small hit for Lodden increased Slutter to about 750,000.
Jonathan Driscoll raised to 44,000 from the hijack seat and action folded around to Theo Tran in the big blind. Tran only had about 100,000 in his stack and said, "Call," and then turned his hand over to expose 
. Tran thought he was calling all in, but still had chips behind. The floor was called and it was ruled that Tran's hand was live.
The dealer dealt the flop 
and Tran flopped top two pair. Driscoll folded right away, not even bothering to continue with the hand as Tran sat with his head buried in his hands upset at himself. The floor then issued Tran a one-round penalty, which hurts even more as he's so short with just about 170,000 chips.
"God, how am I making these f***ing mistakes this deep in the f***ing tournament!" Tran uttered to himself as he walked away to serve his penalty. "I can't believe I just screwed up so bad!"
Francois Binette raised it up before before Michal Wywrot put in the three bet on the button. Binette made the call and they took a flop of 
.
Binette checked it over to Wywrot who bet 162,000 into the middle. Binette then shoved all in for around 750,000 with Wywrot making the call.
Binette: 
Wywrot:
Binette had flopped an open-ended straight draw but found that two of his outs were gone as Wywrot held the rockets! The turn was the 
to give Binette a pair and a little more hope but the river was the 
.
Binette is busto as Wywrot is up to 1.7 million chips.
Vladislav Varlashin was just all in for his whole stack before the flop with 
and was against Bill Melvin's . The board came 
, and Varlashin hits the rail. Melvin moves to 1.1 million.
A cry of "All in and call at 372!" and Tony Dunst standing up from his seat brought us to the Red mini-feature table. Dunst was all in pre-flop for a total of 457,000 with 
. Ryan Eriquezzo, who had been dealt , was Dunst's opponent. Eriquezzo checked exactly how much he was on the hook for if he lost the hand.
"458? 457?" said Dunst. "But you might queen-ball it."
"How about three diamonds on the flop?" Eriquezzo responded. He had no such luck as the flop came 
.
"Well, you got the three part right," said another player at the table, referring to the . The turn was another blank, leaving Dunst one card away from a double-up.
"The heart rate is slightly accelerated right now," Dunst said. "A little bit." We can only imagine it stopped completely as a river face-card flashed -- but it was a harmless , not a Dunst-killing queen. Dunst secured the double-up to climb to 915,000.
Manig Loeser shoved for 420,000 in the cutoff seat, and John May called from the button. Next door, John Racener moved all in over the top of both players, and May quickly called all in for his own tournament life, putting two players at risk and a huge pot up for grabs.
Showdown
Loeser:
May: 
Racener:
Wow.
And it would only get more "wow"... May was nervous, the flop brought 
, and Racener spiked his queen to take a huge lead in the hand and put his two opponents two cards from a simultaneous elimination. The turn missed both players, and the river did as well, and that pot goes to Racener. He's now taken the chip lead with 4.5 million, sending Loeser and May out the door.
May's elimination is an important one. We mentioned earlier that he turned 21 years old on July 7th, and he was the last player Joe Cada had to worry about stealing his youngest-ever-Main-Event-champ ion title. You're safe this year, Joe.
We arrived at the table to see a board of 
and around 650,000 chips in the middle. Todd Brick was under the gun and he led out with a bet of 500,000 to send James Fennell deep into the tank.
Every decision at this stage of the tournament is an important one, and Fennell used up about four minutes of air before making the call. It was a good one as he opened for the best hand as Brick insta-mucked.
Brick is down to 560,000 with Fennell up to a commanding 3.1 million.
On a board of , Brandon Steven called all in for his last 550,000 against Daniel Chamberlain.
Steven: 
Chamberlain: 
The river blanked out with the 
to see Steven double through to 1,310,000 as Chamberlain slips to 960,000 in chips.
A couple more bustouts to report here. Among the many we've seen here during these first two wild hours of play.
Brandon Wong was all in for his last 200,000 with 
against Jacobo Fernandez's 
. Five community cards later -- 
-- Wong was gone.
And a short-stacked David Liu was all in soon thereafter with against Gianni Direnzo's 
. The board went 
, and Liu left us.
