Harvey Mathews was all in pre-flop with against his opponent's . He needed help to remain in the tournament and got it on the flop, giving him top pair.
Mathews held on through the turn and river to double up to 250,000. On the same table, Christian Harder and Bertrand Grospellier both have big stacks in front of them, Harder with 520,000 and Grospellier with 380,000.
Once an unstoppable force earlier in this tournament, Chris Ewing just had to survive an all in less than 30 spots away from the money.
Sam Grafton opened the pot with a raise from the cutoff to 12,000. Kyriakos Papadopoulos called from the button and Ewing defended his big blind.
Ewing led out for 12,000 on a flop of , Grafton folded and Papadopoulos called. He bet again on the turn, this time for 25,000. Papadopoulos called once again.
On the river, Ewing pushed all in for his last 30,000 and sent Papadopoulos into the tank.
"Do you have a flush?," Papadopoulos asked. He eventually called with for a pair of aces, but Ewing had spiked two pair on the river with to win the pot and double up.
"If you're going to get lucky you might as well value shove," Ewing said as he stacked up around 200,000 chips. Papadopoulos was left with 190,000, while Grafton has 175,000.
Tingyi Tsai moved all in for his last 59,000, and Freddy Heller called with ; Tsai showed .
Tsai flopped a pair of kings on the flop and stayed ahead as the board ran out to secure a double to around 130,000.
On the next hand, Heller called a pre-flop raise from Maria Konnikova from the small blind. Both players checked to the river on a board of , and Heller won the pot with a 16,000 bet.
Despite doubling Tsai, Heller still sits with 510,000.
Darren Elias and a player to his immediate left went heads-up to the river with on the board. There was already more than 100,000 in the pot. Elias shoved all in, and his opponent quickly folded.
A few hands earlier at this table, former Main Event champion Ryan Riess jammed his last 170,000 with but ran into and was eliminated.