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Michiel Sijpkens raised it up to 185,000 from early position with Johnny Lodden making the call in the cutoff. Filippo Candio came along in the big blind and we were three ways to a flop of 
.
Action checked around and again on the 
turn. The river was the 
and Candio checked to Sijpkens who fired 260,000. Lodden folded but Candio made the call.
Sijpkens showed 
for a rivered full house to take it down and climb to 4.24 million. Candio is down to 10.3 million.
Jerry Payne raised to 200,000 to start the action, and Theo Jorgensen reraised to 550,000 in position. From the big blind, Eduardo Parras reraised all in for 2.81 million total. Payne re-shoved over the top, and Jorgensen ducked out of the way. With Parras at risk, the cards were on their backs:
Parras: 
Payne: 
Aaaaaand they're off! The flop came 
as Parras' queens stormed out to a big lead. The two men turned the corner with the safe 
, and the 
led Parras' horse down the home stretch and across the line victorious. He takes down that race and pulls in the double up, vaulting his stack up to about 6.3 million.
Payne is left with about 1.35 million.
Damien Luis opened to 180,000 only to have John Racener three-bet next to act to 440,000.
Luis made the call before both players checked down the 
board until Racener fired out 500,000.
Luis then check-raised all in for 1,215,000 to put Racener deep into the tank for over four minutes before he found a fold to see Luis collect the pot to move to 2,805,000 in chips.
Johnny Lodden raised to 200,000 from early position before Mads Wissing made it 675,000 from middle position. The action then folded to Jonathan Duhamel in the big blind who made it 3,000,000 to go.
Lodden quickly folded but Wissing thought for a long time and the clock had to be called before he released his hand. Duhamel flashed the 
.
Wissing is down to 2.96 million with Duhamel up to 8.7 million.
Joseph Cheong raised to 195,000 from early position before Benjamin Statz reraised to 400,000 from the next seat. Cheong made the call and the flop came down 
. Cheong checked and Statz fired 500,000. Cheong folded, showing 
. Statz showed him just an eight.
We mentioned earlier how William Thorson -- currently trading the chip lead back and forth with Joseph Cheong -- once finished 13th in the WSOP Main Event (in 2006).
A look down to the bottom of the chip counts finds one other player who has made an even deeper run in the WSOP Main Event before -- Hasan Habib. Ten years ago, Habib finished fourth in the WSOP Main Event, the year Chris "Jesus" Ferguson won.
Habib earned $326,000 for his fourth-place finish in 2000. A sign of how the WSOP has grown over the last decade -- all 27 players who make it through to tomorrow's Day 8 will guarantee themselves at least a $317,161 payday.
Habib will need some help to make it that far. He currently sits with just over half a million chips, meaning he's 42nd of the 42 players left.
Filippo Candio raised it up to 225,000 from under the gun, before Johnny Lodden made it 700,000 to play in the cutoff. Matthew Berkey called all in for his last 85,000 in the small blind as Candio made the call as well.
The flop fell 
and Candio fired out 475,000 into the side pot to take it down as Lodden folded.
Candio showed 
for an underpair on a scary board but he was in front of Berkey's unimpressive 
.
The turn was the 
and river the 
to eliminate Berkey from the tournament in 43rd place. Candio is now up to 11 million.
On the turn, the board read 
between David Assouline and Pascal LeFrancois. Assouline checked and LeFrancois bet 560,000. Assouline called.
The river completed the board with the and Assouline checked again. LeFrancois fired all in. Assouline had about 2.7 million behind and went into the tank. He eventually made the call with the . LeFrancois held the 
for aces full of jacks. His hand was good and he eliminated Assouline to move up to 11 million in chips.
Assouline finished in 44th place for $206,395.
Michael Mizrachi opened to 180,000 only to have Matt Affleck three-bet to 500,000 next to act.
With the action on Duy Le, he made it 1,400,000 to go to prompt folds from the blinds and Mizrachi before Affleck moved all in for roughly 4,300,000.
Le angled his cards towards the muck and Affleck collected the pot to move to roughly 6,000,000 in chips.
