Event #57 Main Event Day 6

Number of players entered Day 1A: 1,125, Remaining 819
Number of players entered Day 1B: 1,489, Remaining 1,018
Number of players entered Day 1C: 2,341, Remaining 1,593
Number of players entered Day 1D: 2,364, Remaining 1,716
Number of players on Day 2A (1A + 1C): 2,412, Remaining 1,295
Number of players on Day 2B (1B + 1D): 2,734, Remaining 1,357
Number of players on Day 3: 2,557, Remaining 1,240
Number of players on Day 4: 1,240, Remaining 574
Number of players on Day 5: 574, Remaining 220
Number of players on Day 6: 220

12:02 PM
For Day 6, the remaining 220 players will play for 5 levels instead of 4 as they have been. But keep in mind that the goal is to reach the 9 for the final table by the end of Saturday, so if more levels have to be added, they will do just that. We lost quite a few names in Day 5 like Sammy Farha busting in 466th place, Dwyte Pilgrim in 431st, Fabrice Soulier in 570th, Hoyt Corkins in 339th, Vitaly Lunkin in 322nd, Doug Carli in 264th, Steve Billirakis in 257th, Pras Banzi in 244th and Mark Telscher in 243rd. And that just names a few. There are 91 players with over 1 million in chips, so this should be an exciting day with lots of action.

We are now underway and will see what the day brings as competition for the last bracelet at the RIO this season heats up.

1:04 PM
There are now 196 players in the field. Top 5 players are:

Joseph Cheong -- 3,830,000
Michael Skender -- 3,527,000
Evan Lamprea -- 3,300,000
Duy Le -- 3,186,000
Matt Affleck -- 3,125,000

1:34 PM
Gianluca Speranza busted Joseph Cheong, winning by an King kicker and vaulted up to 3.8 million making him the new chip leader.

2:28 PM
Johnny Chan who was looking to get his hands on bracelet number 11, will have to go to Europe for a shot at it as he busted recently. Chan went all-in with his last 500,000 chips with pocket J's and was called by Jonathan Driscoll with pocket A's. Johnny Chan will walk away with $48,847 for his efforts at a deep run. He took a big hit to his stack after Robert Pisano went all-in and Chan called. Chan had pocket K's and Pisano had pocket A's that held to the river which ripped 2.19 million away from Chan.

3:02 PM
Dragan Galic was sent to the sidelines after losing his stack of 500K when his set of Kings lost out to the full house (Q's/K's) belonging to Scott Clements. Clements is up to 1.85 million after beating Dragan.

4:11 PM
Tony Bracy is gone after meeting the set of Jacks of Redmond Lee. Lee surpassed 1.85 million when it was all done.

5:04 PM
Players are really climbing upwards in chips. Some of he really big jumpers are Jacobo Fernandez 1,730,000, Juha Helppi 1,500,000, Gabe Costner 2,605,000 after making a big hand winning over 1 million in chips, William Thorson 2,850,000 and Matt Affleck 3,600,000.

6:02 PM
Randall Tagawa moved all-in with A K after raising and Robert Pisano took so long to make a decision that a clock was called on him. As the countdown ran to 7 from 10 to 1, Pisano called with A 10. By the river Pisano improved to two pair (A's and 10's), won the hand and vaulted to chip leader with 5.6 million chips!

7:00 PM
Top 5 players at this time are:

Michael Mizrachi -- 5,650,000
John Racener -- 5,530,000
Joseph Cheong -- 5,400,000
Matthew Jarvis -- 5,150,000
Edward Ochana -- 4,900,000

Dinner break will run until 8:30 PM. Play will continue at level 24 with blinds at 15,000/30,000 and ante of 4,000. Player count is 103.

9:02 PM
Robert Mizrachi, Tristan Wade, JP Kelly, Jesper Hougaard and Theo Tran are now among the fallen. Robert received a round of applause after losing to the Ace high flush of Josue Sauvageau. The only remaining Mizrachi is Michael out of the 4 brothers who cashed in the Main Event.

9:35 PM
Martijn Schirp was send back to Holland by the two pair of William Thorson (J's and 2's). Christian Harder lost his race with A 5 with Matt Affleck's pocket A's and is watching the Main Event from the rail. Affleck is over 5 million in chips now.

10:11 PM
Last level of the night is level 25 with blinds at 20,000/40,000 and ante of 5,000. Player count is at 99.

10:45 PM
Pro player Mike Witteles has run out of gas and out of chips. Evan Lamprea from Lithuania won by a Queen kicker and is over 3.3 million while Witteles takes that long walk away from the tables in the Main Event, finishing in 89th place.

11:17 PM
Juha Helppi has finished his deep run into the Main Event. His paired 8's were not enough to stop the set of Queens belonging to Gianni Direnzo. One player who is still at the tables Ronnie Bardah has just stated that if he makes the final table, he will Moonwalk around the RIO naked. We'll keep you posted on his progress.

12:02 AM
Play has finished for the evening. Day 7 will begin at 12 noon tomorrow and play until we reach the magic number of 27. Player count finished at 78. Good night all.

Top 50 Players and Chip Counts:

Theo Jorgensen -- 9,300,000
Michael Mizrachi -- 7,535,000
John Racener -- 7,200,000
Jonathan Driscoll -- 6,570,000
William Thorson -- 6,525,000
Matthew Jarvis -- 6,125,000
Edward Ochana -- 5,950,000
Alexander Kostritsyn -- 5,715,000
Cuong Nguyen -- 5,650,000
Joseph Cheong -- 5,555,000
Patrick Eskandar -- 5,540,000
Matthew Berkey -- 5,450,000
Filippo Candio -- 5,385,000
Matt Affleck -- 5,315,000
Evgeny Shnayder -- 4,790,000
Gabe Costner -- 4,635,000
Bill Melvin -- 4,515,000
Jonathan Duhamel -- 4,295,000
Duy Le -- 4,100,000
Bryn Kenney -- 3,830,000
Michal Wywrot -- 3,815,000
Robert Pisano -- 3,735,000
Matthew Bucaric -- 3,595,000
John Dolan -- 3,470,000
John Armbrust -- 3,295,000
James Fennell -- 3,225,000
Michael Skender -- 2,980,000
Benjamin Statz -- 2,910,000
Evan Lamprea -- 2,910,000
Jerry Payne -- 2,765,000
Meenaskshi Subramaniam -- 2,690,000
Corey Emery -- 2,640,000
Brandon Steven -- 2,330,000
Gianni Direnzo -- 2,280,000
Rudy Miller -- 2,250,000
Redmond Lee -- 2,220,000
Michiel Sijpkens -- 2,160,000
Denis Pisarev -- 2,140,000
Eric Baldwin -- 2,135,000
Johnny Lodden -- 2,105,000
Mads Wissing -- 2,025,000
Jakob Toestesen -- 2,010,000
Pascal LeFrancois -- 1,950,000
Niklas Toorell -- 1,945,000
Damien Luis -- 1,850,000
Mark Meloche -- 1,780,000
David Assouline -- 1,710,000
Christopher Bolt -- 1,690,000
Adam Levy -- 1,685,000
Richard Morgan -- 1,680,000