Rudy Miller raised it up to 175,000 from early position with Redmond Lee making the call in the small blind. Alexander Kostritsyn came along in the big blind as they took a flop of .
Action checked around and the fell on the turn. Lee checked and Kostritsyn made it 300,000 to go. Miller made the call as Lee got out of the way as the fell on the river. Kostritsyn bet out for a rather small 225,000 and Miller made the call.
Great thin value bet by Kostritsyn as he opened which was surprisingly the best hand. He's up to 5.9 million with Miller down to 800,000.
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Tony Dunst is even calm when he hits his two outer!
Hasan Habib opened to 155,000 from early position only to have Tony Dunst move all in for 930,000. Once the blinds passed, Habib made the call to put "Bond18" at risk.
Habib:
Dunst:
"Well if I go out this way, at least I don't have to explain it!" announced Dunst.
The dealer dropped the flop to put Habib in the lead and leave Dunst drawing to just two outs.
The changed little on the turn, but it would the on the river that would send the railbirds into an eruption of cheers and applause.
"That's just ridiculous!" uttered an amazed Dunst as he collected the pot to move to 2,030,000 while Habib slips to 985,000 in chips.
Bryn Kenney recently joined the secondary feature table but he didn't get off to a great start at his new home.
After Alexander Kostritsyn raised to 150,000 from under the gun, Kenney made it 400,000 to play from the hijack position. Kostritsyn called and they took a flop of . Kostritsyn checked and Kenney bet 520,000. Kostritsyn responded by check-raising an additional 1.5 million which forced a fold from Kenney.
Kenney is at 3.3 million with Kostritsyn powering his way back to 5.16 million.
Jason Senti was down to 545,000 when he open-shoved his . David Assouline looked down at and made the call, and the dealer had Senti's tournament fate in his hands. He would help the young man out in a big way.
The flop brought the saving ace, and the board of has earned Senti the double up. He's back to 1.26 million now, while Assouline slips back to 2.095 million.
For the next two hours, we're going to be keeping a hawk eye on Michael Mizrachi.
He was hovering around 8 million for much of that last level, but his stack began to slide during the final orbit or so. Mizrachi called raises and folded away chunks of his stack several times. He also tangled in a relatively large pot with Patrick Eskander that pushed The Grinder down around 3.3 million to close the level. Mizrachi made aces up with , and Eskander found action when his made a better two pair.
The way Mizrachi has been pushing chips around, he likely won't be at 3.3 million for long. The question now: Which direction is he heading?
Two hours down. Still many more to go. Our remaining survivors now have 20 minutes to gather their thoughts before continuing their tourney journeys.
Speaking of survivors, first out the door today was former "Survivor" star Jean-Robert Bellande. Short-stacked to start Day 7, he was finally cut down by Duy Le in 78th place. That means a $94,942 payday for Bellande, but word is he claimed a bit more than that for winning a side bet with Justin "BoostedJ" Smith thanks to his deep Main Event run.
Following Bellande to the rail were Adam Etter, Mark Meloche, Jeff Banghart, Brock Bourne, and Gabriel Nassif. Each of those players also took home $94,942. Making it to six figures were Habib Khanis, Richard Morgan, Pierre Canali, Marcel Cole, Niklas Toorell, Meenakshi Subramaniam, John Armbrust, and Ismail Erkenov, each of whom earned $114,205.
Meanwhile, John Racener wrestled the lead away from Theo Jorgensen for a short while during the last hour, but the Danish pro won a big pot versus Eric "Basebaldy" Baldwin right near the end of the level to push beyond the 10 million-chip mark and back into first. And Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi challenged for the chip lead early on, but had a rough second hour to drop back to the middle of the pack.
There will be 64 players returning from the break. See you on the other side.
William Thorson raised to 120,000 in middle position and Scott Clements made the call. Corey Emery three-bet to 360,000 from the hijack seat. Thorson four-bet to 995,000 and Clements got out of the way. Emery five-bet shoved for 2.875 million. Thorson then went into the tank.
"Would you like to gamble or no?" asked Thorson before eventually folding his hand. He dropped to 5.095 million and Emery increased to over 4.5 million.
Josh Brikis was just knocked down to under 500,000 when he was all in with pocket sevens against the for Christopher Bolt. The board ran out and Bolt made a spade flush. He's back up to 1.5 million.
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fell on the turn. Lee checked and Kostritsyn made it 300,000 to go. Miller made the call as Lee got out of the way as the 
fell on the river. Kostritsyn bet out for a rather small 225,000 and Miller made the call.
which was surprisingly the best hand. He's up to 5.9 million with Miller down to 800,000.
flop to put Habib in the lead and leave Dunst drawing to just two outs.
on the river that would send the railbirds into an eruption of cheers and applause.
has earned Senti the double up. He's back to 1.26 million now, while Assouline slips back to 2.095 million.
, and Eskander found action when his 
made a better two pair.
for Christopher Bolt. The board ran out 
