Ariel Mantel was all-in with a stack of 378,000 against Kenny Hallaert, who had his opponent covered by about 86,000.
Ariel Mantel: 
Kenny Hallaert: 
Mantel had his opponent pipped in the massive cooler.
"Holy shit," someone at the table said when they saw the hands.
The board ran out 
and Mantel improved to a set he didn't need and secured the double-up.
Niveau: 15
Blinds: 3,000/6,000
Ante: 6,000
Players are on their second 15-minute break of Day 2 after four levels of play.
Eyal Eshkar was all-in for around 50,000 in a heads-up pot against Ryan Laplante.
Eyal Eshkar: 
Ryan Laplante: 
Eshkar took the lead with a pair of jacks on the flop of 
, but the 
on the turn gave Laplante the lead. Eshkar re-took the lead when the river brought the 
and was saved from elimination.
A player in the cutoff raised to 10,000 and Arian Stolt three-bet to 45,000. Steve Yea then jammed in his stack of 286,000 in the big blind. The cutoff folded and Stolt thought about it and called.
Steve Yea:
Arian Stolt: 
Yea found a good time to pick up rockets and he held as the board ran out 
to keep him in front and get him to nearly ten times the starting stack as the bubble starts to get closer.
Vojtech Ruzicka opened on the button and Nick Schulman defended out of the big blind.
Both players checked on the flop of 
and Schulman led out with a bet of 16,000 on the 
turn. Ruzicka called.
Schulman sized down to 11,000 when the 
peeled off on the river and Ruzicka slid his cards into the muck.
On a board of 
, Niklas Astedt was on the button and had jammed in his remaining 94,000 into a pot of about 200,000.
Abhinav Iyer was in the hijack and had gone into the tank. After thinking it over for a while, he decided to lay down his hand and the dealer sent the pot to Astedt without a showdown.
Two of the biggest stacks in the tournament got in a preflop raising war beginning with Matt Berkey opening out of the small blind.
Asi Moshe three-bet to 53,000 from the big blind and Berkey took a minute before four-betting to 150,000. Moshe folded without much of a fight.
Berkey showed the table he wasn't four-betting light by flipping over .
The total prize pool amassed from the 329 total entrants is $3,067,925 with the top 50 players getting a piece of it.
A min-cash is worth $16,098, but all the players will be aiming for the WSOP gold bracelet and the top prize of $721,453.
| Place | Prize |
|---|---|
| 1 | $721,453 |
| 2 | $445,892 |
| 3 | $293,578 |
| 4 | $198,205 |
| 5 | $137,303 |
| 6 | $97,660 |
| 7 | $71,373 |
| 8-9 | $53,637 |
| 10-12 | $41,481 |
| 13-18 | $33,042 |
| 19-24 | $27,132 |
| 25-30 | $22,990 |
| 31-36 | $20,122 |
| 37-42 | $18,865 |
| 43-48 | $17,607 |
| 49-50 | $16,098 |
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