GGPoker Ambassador Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was short on chips before Jargo Alavali eliminated him on a bad beat.
Grospellier jammed for 82,032 from the hijack with 
and was called by Alavali with 
from the big blind.
The 
board gave Alavali trips and Grospellier was eliminated short of the money in 40th place. Stphen Chidwick and Darren Elias went to the rail soon after to leave 37 players remaining.
Level: 18
Blinds: 6,000/12,000
Ante: 1,500
Niklas Astedt opened for 20,000 from the cutoff and called a jam by Ottomar Ladva to 62,579 from the small blind.
Ottomas Ladva: 
Niklas Astedt: 
Ladva was ahead but it didn't last as Astedt improved to a flush on the 
board. Adrian Mateos and Michael Watson followed Ladva to the virtual exit door shortly after Ladva lost his stack.
It's not every day you see quads on the board let alone after the first four cards, but that just happened in a hand between "QuantumKey" and Damian Salas.
Damian Salas opened to 20,000 from under the gun before he called a three-bet by "QuantumKey" from the big blind to 79,775.
Both players checked two streets as quads rolled out on the 
board after the turn. The completed the board on the river and Salas folded to a small bet of 15,000.
Anatoly Filatov open-jammed for 106,184 from the cutoff and was called by Darren Elias from the big blind.
Anatoly Filatov: 
Darren Elias: 
Filatov won the race to stay alive and double after Elias failed to connect with the 
board.
Level: 17
Blinds: 5,000/10,000
Ante: 1,250
David Yan opened to 17,600 from the cutoff. Urmo Velvelt jammed from the small blind for 86,000. David Peters then jammed for 558,500 and Yan called off for about 370K in total.
Urmo Velvelt: 
David Yan: 
David Peters: 
The 
board gave Peters the best hand and he eliminated two opponents. Peters took the lead and was also the first player in this event north of 1 million in chips.
Late registration is now closed. The field reached 141 entries including 58 re-entries to generate a $1.41 million prize pool to smash the $1 million guarantee.
First place will go home with a whopping $320,729 with the top 20 getting paid at least a min-cash of $18,783.
This means about one-third of the remaining field will finish in the money with 59 players left after late registration closed.
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