With players continuing to rapidly exit the BIG 50, Olivier Ledda appears to be the first person to reach the eight-figure stack mark. The Swiss player finished second in the $250 Daily DeepStack yesterday for $25,089, his highest career cash to date.
Ledda has already locked up over $3,500 with less than 600 players remaining.
Allen Cunningham raised to 180,000 from the cut-off and only the player in the small blind called.
The flop appeared 
and the small blind check-called Cunningham continuation's bet for 175,000. The turn 
went check-check.
On the river 
, the small blind bet 300,000 and Cunningham quickly let it go. He has now a stack around 1,000,000.
After coming into the day with around two million, Eric "Barstool Nate" Nathan has been eliminated, shoving his last 12 big blinds in with 
from the button only to get called by 
.
"I turned a flush draw, but queens held," said Nate. "I think I played six hands all day. I'm flying home now but I'll be back to play the Main Event!"
In a blind versus blind situation, Daniel Zack moved all in for his remaining stack worth 700,000 with 
and got called by the big blind with 
.
The flop fell 
, giving a set of nines to the big blind player and the flush draw for Zack, but the rest of the board came 
and Zack was eliminated from the tournament.
As related by players at the table, Saya Ono raised to 225,000 from under-the-gun, and when action folded around to Ari Engel in the big blind, he shoved all in and was called by Ono.
Ari Engel: 
Saya Ono:
The board ran out 
, which eliminated Engel from the tournament.
"He's unstoppable," remarked someone at Swiss player Olivier Ledda's table. "He's knocked out four or five players in the last ten minutes.
"He had fives and flopped a set. He cracked kings with ace-ten, had ace-jack just now...He never loses!"
Ledda is now on 14 million chips midway through the sixth level of the day. That's good enough for five times the current average which is 2,800,000, and his chip stack is encroaching noticeably on the players either side of him.
Action folded around to Caleb Rybalka in the small blind and he shoved all in.
Still stacking chips after busting Ari Engel in the previous hand, Ono snap-called and the players tabled their hands.
Caleb Rybalka: 
Saya Ono: 
Ono had a monster in the big blind, which held on the 
board, and she eliminated players in back-to-back hands.
The under the gun player raised to 225,00 and Jerald Williamson made the call from the cut-off.
The flop fell and the cut-off made a continuation bet for 175,000, called by Williamson. Both players checked on the turn .
The river was the 
and this time Williamson called a bet worth 400,000, showing for trip nines. His opponent sent 
into the muck.
There was a large cry from Andrew Johnson's table as he eliminated a player. However, that was only part of the story. He held 
and had butted heads with an opponent with who had flopped a set of queens on 
The turn was the 
giving Johnson a gutshot straight draw, before the 
river completed that straight and sent his opponent to the rail.
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