WPT Tournament of Champions
Level 8: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 41 of 64

On a flop of , Jared Jaffee checked from the small blind and Farid Yachou checked from the big blind. Matthew Waxman bet 3,500 from the cutoff and Jordan Cristos moved all in on the button for 27,700.

Jaffee called and was all in for 9,300, Yachou called and Waxman folded.

Yachou showed , Jaffee tabled and Cristos tabled . Yachou was in great shape to eliminate two players with top and bottom pair. The turn was the , leaving Jaffee drawing dead, and the river was the to send both players home, shipping the pot to Yachou.

Farid Yachou – 121,000
Jordan Cristos – Eliminated
Jared Jaffee – Eliminated

WPT Tournament of Champions
Level 8: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 45 of 64

With two and a half levels left in the night, here is a look at the players who have busted since the field returned from dinner:

Adam Weinraub
Anthony Gregg
David Chiu
David Paredes
Tony Dunst
James Calderaro
Javier Gomez
Jonthan Little
Kevin Eyster
Stefan Chillhabel
Sheraz Nasir
Aaron Mermelstein

WPT Tournament of Champions
Level 8: 500/1,000 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 45 of 64

Ben Cade raised to 2,500 under-the-gun and Tyler Patterson called in early position. Amir Babakhani called from middle position before Jonathan Jaffe three-bet to 11,800 from the hijack.

Dylan Wilkerson was on the button and moved all in for 20,400. Action folded back around to Jaffe, who called.

Jaffe showed , but was in trouble against Wilkerson’s . The board ran out and Wilkerson doubled up.

Dylan Wilkerson – 50,600
Jonathan Jaffe – 87,000

WPT Tournament of Champions
Level 7: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 48 of 64

Mark Newhouse raised to 1,800 from under-the-gun and Ravi Raghavan called from middle position. David Paredes defended his big blind and three players took a flop of .

Paredes checked and Newhouse bet 3,000. Raghavan folded and Paredes called. The turn was the and Paredes checked. Newhouse bet 5,600 and Paredes called.

The river was the and Paredes checked again. Newhouse bet 10,000 and Paredes called. Newhouse showed and Paredes mucked his hand.

Mark Newhouse – 85,000
David Paredes – 34,500

WPT Tournament of Champions
Level 7: 400/800 with a 100 ante
Players Remaining: 50 of 64

David Chiu moved all in from middle position for 7,800 and Taylor Paur called from the hijack. Nam Le went into the tank on the button and used two time bank chips before making it 43,000, leaving himself with 500 behind.

Paur went into the tank and used two time bank chips of his own before tossing his hand into the muck, leaving Chiu heads-up with Le.

Le showed and was in the lead against Chiu’s . The board ran out and Le’s pair held up to eliminate Chiu.

“With like 21 seconds left, I almost went all in,” said Paur after the hand, claiming he folded pocket jacks. “Then I re-considered and ended up folding.”

Nam Le – 61,100
David Chiu – Eliminated

WPT Tournament of Champions
Level 6: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Players Remaining: 54 of 64

On the river with a completed board of , David Paredes checked from the small blind. Mark Newhouse bet 5,000 from the big blind and Paredes took some time before calling.

Newhouse showed , good for a full house and Paredes mucked his hand. Newhouse dragged the pot, but is still just shy of a starting stack.

Mark Newhouse – 48,000
David Paredes – 75,100

WPT Tournament of Champions
Level 6: 300/600 with a 75 ante
Players Remaining: 54 of 64

On a flop of , Asher Conniff checked from the small blind and Darren Elias bet 3,600 from the big blind. Michael Mizrachi called from middle position, Taylor Paur folded from the cutoff, Jason Brin folded on the button and Conniff folded as well.

They were heads-up to the turn and Elias checked. Mizrachi bet 5,150 and Elias called.

The river was the and both players checked. Elias showed and Mizrachi mucked his hand.

Darren Elias – 98,000
Michael Mizrachi – 115,000

WPT Tournament of Champions
Level 5: 250/500 with a 75 ante
Players Remaining: 56 of 64

On the turn with the board reading , Yevgeniy Timoshenko checked from the small blind and Taylor von Kriegenbergh bet 3,000 from the cutoff.

Timoshenko called and the river was the . Timoshenko checked and von Kriegenbergh bet 5,500. Timoshenko waited until there was two seconds left on the action clock, before announcing a check-raise to 17,500.

von Kriegenbergh goes into the tank and used one of his time chips to get an extra 30 seconds of time to act. With a few seconds left on the second clock, he tosses his hand into the muck.

Yevgeniy Timoshenko – 77,000
Taylor von Kriegenbergh – 60,000

WPT Tournament of Champions
Level 5: 250/500 with a 50 ante
Players Remaining: 57 of 64

There is about 6,000 in the middle on the turn with the board reading and Matt Salsberg bet 2,500 from the cutoff and Matt Waxman called on the button.

The river was the and both players checked. Salsberg showed Th8h and Waxman mucked his hand. Salsberg dragged the pot, but is sitting with just over half of his original starting stack.

Matt Salsberg – 27,500
Matt Waxman – 66,000

WPT Tournament of Champions
Level 4: 200/400 with a 50 ante
Total Players: 64

David Ormsby raised to 1,000 from the cutoff and Noah Schwartz called from the small blind. Chris Leong came along from the big blind and they saw a flop of .

Schwartz and Leong both checked before Ormsby bet 1,300. Schwartz called, Leong folded and the turn was the .

Schwartz checked and Ormsby bet 3,100. Schwartz called and the river was the . Schwartz checked and Ormsby bet 7,000. Schwartz check-raised to 40,000 which was enough to put Ormsby all in.

Ormsby took about 15 seconds before tossing his hand into the muck. Schwartz took the pot and moved over the 100,000 chip mark.

Noah Schwartz – 125,000
David Ormsby – 30,000