Over the last two hours, William Thorson, Filippo Candio, and John Racener have chipped over over the 10-million mark and to the top of the counts. Theo Jorgensen continues to hang around near the leaders, and Pascal LeFrancois and Bryn Kenney made big moves upward that level as well. Meanwhile, moving in the opposite direction was Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, who finds himself down around the 2 million-chip mark currently.
Meanwhile, we said goodbye to Dennis Pisarev, who earned $114,205 for his 64th-place finish. Following him were Gary Dishongh, Jim McCrink, Rudy Miller, Bill Melvin, Eric Baldwin, David Benyamine, Matt Harris, Jared Ingles, and Josh Brikis. They all earned $138,285 for their WSOP Main Event efforts. And Petter Jetten and Christopher Bolt are out, too, both getting $168,556 for making it as far as they did.
That left us with 52 characters left, and 52 cards to help us sort them out.
Then came the stunner -- Alexander Kostritsyn getting knocked out in a huge one versus Bryn Kenney as Level 27 concluded. Kostritsyn finishes in 52nd, earning $168,556, meaning there are just 51 players still with hopes for the bracelet.
On the last hand before the break, Bryn Kenney raised to 160,000 from under the gun before Alexander Kostritsyn three-bet to 575,000 on the button. The blinds folded and Kenney moved all in with Kostritsyn quickly calling.
Kenney:
Kostritsyn:
The flop brought a real sweat as it fell to give Kenney a flush draw to go with his ace as outs to end the run of the Russian young gun. It didn't arrive with the turn but there were "oooooohs" around the rail at the landed to complete Kenney's flush.
After a count down of chips Kenney had more and a stunned Kostritsyn departed the Amazon Room silently amongst the sea of players heading to break.
Meanwhile Kenney will be enjoying his break as he will return with 7.7 million chips.
All of the money went in preflop in a three-bet shove. Benjamin Statz called against Christopher Bolt; he had the and Bolt the . Bolt was all in for 1.3 million.
The flop came down and Bolt stayed in front. The turn gave Statz a flush draw when the rolled off. The river spiked the on board and Statz hit his flush. Bolt couldn't believe it and was sent to the rail in stunning fashion.
William Thorson opened to 130,000 from the cutoff and Matt Affleck made the call from the big blind.
Affleck check-called a 160,000-chip bet when the flop landed to see the land on the turn. Affleck took the initiative and led out for 360,000 with Thorson making the call before the landed on the river.
Affleck led out strongly once again; this time for 800,000, only to have Thorson make it 2,000,000 to go.
Taking nearly five minutes, Affleck eventually called, only to be shown Thorson's for the nut flush.
Evgeny Shnayder raised to 145,000 from late position and Benjamin Statz called in the small blind. In the big, Jason "PBJaxx" Senti squeezed the rest of his chips into the middle, all 580,000 of them. Shnayder called and Statz ducked out, and Senti was heads-up for double or nothing. The showdown news was good news:
Shnayder:
Senti:
The board wouldn't let Senti down either as it came out . Queens up with the ace kicker works just fine, and Senti has more than doubled up; he's close to 1.6 million now.
Jonathan Duhamel and Robert Pisano tangled up preflop, and their clash left Duhamel all in for 1.715 million chips. The cards were turned up, and the race was on:
Duhamel:
Pisano:
There was agony on Duhamel's face throughout the rest of the hand, and with good reason. The flop brought him no help with and the turn was useless as well. Duhamel was one card from elimination, but a timely spiked the river to save his tournament life an double him up. He's over 3.5 million now, climbing just past Pisano and his ~3.2 million chips.
Michiel Sijpkens raised to 150,000 from middle position and Mads Wissing reraised to 490,000. Sijpkens made the call and the flop came down . He checked and Wissing fired 375,000. Sijpkens folded and dropped to 4.3 million. Wissing moved up to 5.6 million
Gabe Costner raised to 140,000 from under the gun before Redmond Lee moved all in for a total of 1,955,000. The table folded around to Costner who made the call.
Costner:
Lee:
The board bricked out to give Lee a life-saving double up to 4.09 million as Costner takes a hit to slip back into the pack with about 9 million.
Michiel Sijpkens raised to 150,000 before Robert Pisano reraised to 350,000. Sijpkens was in middle position and Pisano in the cutoff seat. Johnny Lodden was on the button and four-bet to 1.2 million. Both Sijpkens and Pisano folded, moving Lodden up to three million in chips.
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to give Kenney a flush draw to go with his ace as outs to end the run of the Russian young gun. It didn't arrive with the 
turn but there were "oooooohs" around the rail at the 
landed to complete Kenney's flush.
and Bolt the 
and Bolt stayed in front. The turn gave Statz a flush draw when the 
rolled off. The river spiked the 
land on the turn. Affleck took the initiative and led out for 360,000 with Thorson making the call before the 
for the nut flush.
was useless as well. Duhamel was one card from elimination, but a timely 
spiked the river to save his tournament life an double him up. He's over 3.5 million now, climbing just past Pisano and his ~3.2 million chips.
to give Lee a life-saving double up to 4.09 million as Costner takes a hit to slip back into the pack with about 9 million.