Sunday, July 12, 2015 4:34 PM Local Time
Bruce Peery Rockets to the Top At Second Break
The second level of the day was a lively one. The field shrunk from 183 players to 139 and a new chip leader emerged to become the first player to pass the four-million mark.
Bruce Perry (pictured) entered break with 4,041,000, mostly for his part in winning the biggest pot of the tournament thus far. Always nice to crack aces in the largest tournament of the year! Brian Hastings continues to enjoy the "Summer of Hastings" and made Jonas Mackoff's life a nightmare during that level. He made the break with 3,425,000 and sits near to Max Steinberg (3,295,000), Justin Bonomo (3,200,000), Erasmus Morfe (3,710,00) Joseph McKeehan (3,741,000).
Mattias De Meulder would love to making other people's lives a nightmare but he got sucked out on to bust, and is living through his own right now. Anton Makiievsky knows how to play Day 5 in the Main Event, but the former November Niner was handicapped by his stack today and it cost his early on in the level; he got his chips in dominating but Andrew Moreno found a way to send him to the rail. They were both joined on the rail by Matt Glantz who ran pocket eights into George McDonald's rockets.
Mattias De Meulder - dream over
The tournament will play one more two-hour level when play resumes in 20 minutes and then take a 90-minute dinner break.