For most likely the first time during this tournament, two players at the same table are now sitting behind seven-figure chip stacks.
Quoc Vo has been seated in the Brasilia Room for the majority of the day and enjoyed being the lone table captain. However, with play restarting and more tables breaking, one of the Day 2ab chip leaders, Mickey Craft, has relocated to the same table as Vo.
Vo is nestled behind a stack of nearly 1.1 million chips, while Craft took down one of the first pots upon his arrival and now sits with nearly 1.2 million.
The action folded round to Steven van Zadelhoff on the button, and he opened with a raise. The big blind moved all in for roughly 55,000, and van Zadelhoff called.
Van Zadelhoff:
Opponent:
The board ran out , and van Zadelhoff hit a pair to eliminate his opponent while moving over 500,000 in chips.
James Juvancic bet 18,000 from the cutoff on a flop, and Paul Senat called on his left. Matt Glantz folded in the big blind to send it heads-up to the turn. Juvancic bet 30,000 and got a fold after about 30 seconds.
Michael Krasienko still appears to be the chip leader after the end of Level 14 while all players have been sent on another 20-minute break. There are 1,260 hopefuls remaining, and depending on the progress during the next level, the action will continue until the money bubble bursts.
According to 2004 WSOP Main Event Champion Grey Raymer (via Twitter), an unfortunate couple hands led to his elimination about an hour ago.
Raymer's downfall began when he lost 65,000 chips with pocket tens against pocket sixes after a six fell on the river to give his opponent a set.
In the very next hand, a player in early position raised to 9,500, a player in middle position called, and Raymer moved all in for 84,000 from the small blind. The big blind folded, and the initial raiser re-shoved. The remaining player folded, and they showed down.
Raymer:
Opponent:
Raymer was in good shape to double up, but the flop put that dream to rest. The turn and the river changed nothing, and Raymer's run in the Main Event was cut short.
On Twitter, Raymer shared his feelings about the turn of events: "Just a devastating pair of hands. Oh, what might have been."
It was heads-up between Mike Linster and Valentino Konakchiev on a board with about 90,000 in the pot. Linster checked, and Konakchiev bet 57,000. Linster thought for a bit into the break before folding.