Another new player to the feature table, Matt Affleck entered the pot with a raise to 230,000 following limps from William Thorson and Michael Mizrachi.
Thorson made the call for the additional 170,000 as Mizrachi folded.
The board was checked down until Thorson fired out 210,000 on the river.
With the action on Affleck, he bumped it up to 775,000, and following a few minutes of deliberation, Thorson folded to see Affleck collect his first pot at the feature table to move to 7,800,000 in chips.
Action passed to Joseph Cheong on the button who raised to 130,000. Evan Lamprea made the call on the button and the flop fell .
Lamprea checked and Cheong bet out 150,000. Lamprea went for the check-raise to 420,000 but Cheong came back by moving all in to put his opponent to a decision for his tournament life. Lamprea thought better of it and folded to leave himself with 1.74 million. Cheong is up to 9.1 million.
Tony Dunst opened to 130,000 only to have William Thorson three-bet to 415,000 while announcing, "Let's play the rush!"
With the action on Michael Mizrachi, he bumped it to 915,000 to prompt a quick fold from Dunst before Thorson grabbed a stack of lavender 100,000-denomination chips and announced he was all in.
Mizrachi went deep into the tank resting his head on his hand before standing up for a moment only to return to his seat.
After several minutes, Thorson called the clock on Mizrachi to put the bracelet winner to an even tougher decision.
About a minute went by before Mizrachi reluctantly folded as Thorson offered him a chance to choose a card to sweat.
Mizrachi picked the one closer to him and Thorson revealed the while collecting the pot to move to over 10,600,000 in chips.
Alexander Kostritsyn raised it up to 150,000 from under the gun and Gabe Costner made the call on the button, as these two set themselves to tango once again.
The flop fell and both players checked to see the fall on the turn. Kostritsyn checked, Costner bet 225,000 but Kostritsyn went for the check-raise to 580,000. Costner called and both players checked down the river.
Kostritsyn opened for a busted flush draw as Costner showed for top pair to take it down.
Round two in the battle of Costner versus Kostritsyn, and again Costner comes out in front. He's up to 10.9 million and into the tournament chip lead as Kostritsyn slips to 3.1 million.
In a battle of the blinds, Peter Jetten somehow managed to get his last 1.045 million chips into the middle with . Big blind Dag Palovic called quickly with , and it was actually Palovic all in for 1.030 million. Let's have a board, shall we?:
. That's not much of a sweat for either player, and Palovic's trips are easily good enough to double him up. He's got twice as many chips as he had to start the hand (2.15 million), and Jetten is left with just 15,000.
He would be eliminated on the next hand, but not before another player went broke to give Jetten an extra ~$30,000 in payout.
Joseph Cheong raised it up from early position to 140,000 with Alexander Kostritsyn made the call in middle position and Gabe Costner came along in the big blind.
They took a flop of and Costner checked to Cheong who fired 240,000. Kostritsyn made the call and Costner came along to see the on the turn. This is where things got interesting.
Costner and Cheong both checked to Kostritsyn who bet out 825,000. Costner then put in a check-raise to 1.8 million! Cheong had seen enough as he folded and Kostritsyn went into the tank. With about 3.9 million behind, Kostritsyn eventually decided to let it go as Costner rakes in a huge pot to crack the 10-million-chip mark!
John Racener opened to 140,000 from under the gun as William Thorson made the call along with Michael Mizrachi and Duy Le from the blinds.
Mizrachi led out for 300,000 on the flop with Le making the call and Racener folding before Thorson bumped it to 975,000.
Taking over two minutes, Mizrachi eventually folded before Le made the call to see the land on the turn. Le checked and Thorson fired out a bet of 2,000,000 to put Le into a tough spot as he removed his cap and looked visibly anguished.
Two minutes went by before Le open-mucked his to see the pot pushed to Thorson as he tabled his for a flopped set to move to 9,500,000 in chips.
Filippo Candio raised to 160,000 from middle position, and Patrick Eskandar called a few seats over. On the button, Jared Ingles proceeded to reraise all in for just less than 1.3 million, and Candio made the call to put him at risk. Eskandar open-mucked ace-king and let the other two men duke it out for Ingles' tournament fate.
Showdown
Candio:
Ingles:
The board was an interesting one, but ultimately not enough to save Ingles as it ran {8h] . Despite making his two pair, Ingles' hand was second-best, and he is out in 56th place.
Candio is now right with chip leader John Racener, both men sitting within a couple chips of 10.2 million.
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board was checked down until Thorson fired out 210,000 on the river.
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while collecting the pot to move to over 10,600,000 in chips.
and both players checked to see the 
fall on the turn. Kostritsyn checked, Costner bet 225,000 but Kostritsyn went for the check-raise to 580,000. Costner called and both players checked down the 
river.
for a busted flush draw as Costner showed 
. Big blind Dag Palovic called quickly with 
, and it was actually Palovic all in for 1.030 million. Let's have a board, shall we?:
and Costner checked to Cheong who fired 240,000. Kostritsyn made the call and Costner came along to see the 
land on the turn. Le checked and Thorson fired out a bet of 2,000,000 to put Le into a tough spot as he removed his cap and looked visibly anguished.
for a flopped set to move to 9,500,000 in chips.
and Brikis saw his WSOP Main Event come to an end.
