

He raised most of his stack in the hijack with ace-seven suited, and Eshaan Bhalla moved all in for more with pocket kings, and Boujmala called. He rose to the chip leader with two tables left, but several clashes with his countryman Sitbon had left him as a shorter stack. Samy Boujmala was the first casualty of the official final table after a swingy day. The flop came out ace-high, but the river nine gave the Frenchman a set of nines, and he took down the pot while Ivens exited the tournament in seventh place for $67,492, bringing the table to the official final table. Todd Ivens moved in his short stack to the middle with ace-ten, which saw Julien Sitbon from one seat over move in with pocket nines and everyone else folded. The very first hand of the unofficial final table saw the first elimination.

An ace-high flop came out that also contained an eight, and no improvement on the turn meant that Hunichen would exit the tournament in eighth place for $50,948. The unofficial seven-handed final table was reached when the start of day chip leader Chris Hunichen got in his short stack in the middle with ace-nine against Johann Ibanez's pocket eights. Many notable players went out the door early including Alex Foxen (48th - $9,621), who busted memorably when start of day chip leader Chris Hunichen called him with six-three suited, John Dolan (33rd - $15,857), Martin Jacobson (28th - $19,382) Benjamin Diebold (19th - $24,087), Maria Ho (17th - $30,429), Asher Conniff (16th - $30,429), and Noah Schwartz (9th - $50,948). Day 2 action began in a fast and furious way.
