Jordan Knackstedt opened for 85,000, Fabrizio Gonzalez made it 250,000 on his left in the cutoff and Knackstedt responded with an all-in shove. That was for about the same stack as Gonzalez had, but he quickly folded.
Mark Scacewater raised to 90,000 preflop from early position and received a call from William Romaine who defended his big blind. The flop came 
and Romaine check-called Scacewater's continuation-bet of 90,000.
Both players checked the turn 
and the river came 
. Romaine put 135,000 into the middle, causing Scacewater to let his hand go while Romaine collected the small pot.
Mikolaj Zawadzki raised to 80,000 from under the gun, Joseph Cheong three-bet shoved from the button for 450,000 and Laurids Nielsen called from the big blind. Zawadzki reraised all in for about 3,450,000 and Nielsen called.
Zawadzki: 
Cheong: 
Nielsen: 
The board ran out 
, safe for Nielsen to score the double elimination and win the massive pot.
On a completed scary looking board of 
Hiroki Nawa moved all in into a pot of about 850,000. Sergei Petrushevskii was facing a decision for his tournament life as he was covered by Nawa.
Petrushevskii thought about it long and hard and looked at Nawa who had nearly his entire face covered by his hoodie and sunglasses. Eventually another player at the table asked if he needed the clock called on him to help him expedite the decision. As soon as he was asked he folded his hand and Nawa uncoiled fromhis defensive position and pulled in the chips.
Ryan Dodge had 
in front of him but was left wanting on a board of 
against the of Zackary Koerper. According to Greg Himmelbrand, action had gone: open from Dodge in the cutoff, three-bet from Koerper in the small blind, four-bet all in from Dodge. Stacks were counted down and Dodge was slightly covered with about 1.3 million against a little under 1.5 million, so he hit the rail.
Over on the main feature table, Matt Stout opened the action with a raise to 90,000 first to act and Andrew Brinkley three-bet to 260,000. Stout moved all in for 970,000 in total and Brinkley quickly called.
Matt Stout:
Andrew Brinkley: 
On a board of 
, Stout's inferior pocket pair found no help and he was eliminated from the 2019 WSOP Main Event.
Josh Kay raised to 90,000 from the hijack and Florian Duta defended his big blind.
The flop came 
, Duta check-called the 90,000 continuation-bet of Kay.
The turn brought them the , Duta checked, Kay continued with a bet of 280,000, Duta responded with a raise to 775,000. Kay shoved for around 2,000,000 in total which Duta snap-called with 
for the straight while Kay held 
for a set.
The river completed the board with the to keep Duta ahead and jump towards the top of the chip counts while eliminating Kay.
These players earned $43,935 for their respective showings in the Main Event.
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