The following players have been eliminated between 667th and 765th place earning $18,693. Notables joining them include Niall Farrell, Michael Tureniec, Nick Schulman, and Andy Frankenberger.
Ryan D'Angelo bet 22,000 from the cutoff on a board of , and the small blind made it 60,000 to go. D'Angelo called fairly quickly. The river was a and both players checked. The small blind revealed . D'Angelo mucked and slumped his head onto his chip stack.
Matt Bond raised to 18,000 from early position and got a call from a player in middle position. The player in the big blind moved all in for about 55,000 and Bond four-bet to 143,000. The middle-position player folded.
The player in the big blind was at risk with , up against Bond's .
The flop came and Bond flopped a set, but his opponent still had a gut-shot straight draw. The turn was the and the river was the , sending the pot to Bond and his opponent to the rail.
Bond now sits on a million chips, more than double the 486,000 he started the day with.
When the players return from break, one player will be on an extended break. That player is Albert Daher, as he received a one-round penalty moments ago in the last hand to take place in Brasilia.
From the sound of things, a dealer shouted that a player grabbed the cards. According to one witness, Daher simply rabbit hunted. However, the tournament supervisor took exception.
"This is the Main Event, sir," he could be heard telling Daher. "This isn't some dog-and-pony show."
The following players have been eliminated between 766th and 864th place receiving $17,243. Notables joining them include Natasha Mercier, Artur Koren, Yaxi Zhu, Mikhail Semin, Fernando Brito, Laurence Grondin, and John Esposito.
The players are going on a 20-minute break, their first of the day. Mickey Craft is the runaway chipleader at this point, but the TV cameras have been swarming around Eugene Kotlyarevskiy's table as his chipstack continues to grow. Kotlyarevskiy rivered quads to eliminate a player early on, and his chip stack is now soaring over the others at his table.
Action will resume will return at around 13.45 local time, with players finishing the last hour of Level 17 before moving onto Level 18.