Event 8 ($240 Omaha 8 or Better) is down to 18 players from the starting field of 105. Cory Blum holds the lead going into Day 2 where they will play down to a winner.

Here is the Day 2 table and seat draw:

Table 77
Seat 1: Aaron Salamon – 67,600
Seat 2: Arnold Cohen – 31,400
Seat 3: Gail Cohen – 18,400
Seat 4: Zhen Cai – 77,400
Seat 5: Cory Blum – 122,900
Seat 6: Daniel Yanofsky – 59,000
Seat 7: Robert Wachtel – 73,300
Seat 8: Jonathan Gallin – 16,500
Seat 9: Luis H. Santoni – 30,900

Table 78
Seat 1: Marla Crumpler – 22,000
Seat 2: Georges Boyadjian – 30,600
Seat 3: Harris Goodman – 10,200
Seat 4: Tom Nasuti – 53,000
Seat 5: Ronald Brooks – 66,200
Seat 6: Debbie Mitchell – 33,400
Seat 7: Derek Mcclinton – 3,600
Seat 8: Daniel Genachte – 40,900
Seat 9: Bob Leff – 82,700

Play resumes at 1 p.m. on Friday.

The pace of eliminations in Event 6 ($125 NLHE w/ $150K Guarantee) hasn’t slowed down, and they are already down to the final two tables (18 players).

We’ll be posting an update on the players remaining soon, but here’s a look at some of the notable players who finished in the money earlier today:

45th:  Corey Zarnoch  –  $1,374
47th:  Garren James  –  $1,194
106th:  Shawn Lytle  –  $579
107th:  Brannon Kingston  –  $579
112th:  Michael Rocco  –  $543
138th:  Ylon Schwartz  –  $434
160th:  Justin Levy  –  $398
161st:  Nancy Birnbaum  –  $398
194th:  Shawn Busse  –  $326
206th:  Adam Levy  –  $289

The final table is rapidly approaching in Event 6 ($125 NLHE w/ $150K Guarantee). The field is down to 22 players, with an average chip count around 1.65 million (27 big blinds).

As the blinds increase to 30,000-60,000 with a 10,000 ante, here is a look at the top of the leaderboard and some other notables in the field.

1.  Giovanni Marcacci  –  4,300,000  (71 bb)
2.  John Carl Vinsant  –  3,850,000  (64 bb)

John Mayers  –  1,950,000  (32 bb)
David Jackson  –  1,650,000  (27 bb)
Brian Reinert  –  1,580,000  (26 bb)
Michael Schwiej  –  1,060,000  (17 bb)

According to the schedule, action will continue until a winner is reached, or 3:00 am, whichever happens first. Our prediction is that this tournament wraps up tonight.

The final 39 players return from break, and in less than 10 minutes, three more players bust to drop it to 36 — the final four tables.

John Carl Vinsant was neck-and-neck for the chip lead at the break with Zach Carfagno, though it looked like Carfagno had him by less than a small blind.

But shortly after play resumed, Vinsant busted a player to add more than a million to his stack and take the clear chip lead.

With the blinds at 20,000-40,000 and a 5,000 ante, here’s a look at the top of the leaderboard, along with some other notable chip stacks:

1.  John Carl Vinsant  –  3,350,000  (83 bb)
2.  Zach Carfagno  –  2,150,000  (53 bb)
3.  Brett Bader  –  2,030,000  (50 bb)
4.  Eric Mutschler  –  1,925,000  (48 bb)
5.  Vinny Guerra  –  1,600,000  (40 bb)

John Mayers  –  1,475,000  (36 bb)
Jaeli Morón  –  1,335,000  (33 bb)
Sebastian Tejada  –  1,320,000  (33 bb)
Michael Schwiej  –  940,000  (23 bb)
David Jackson  –  630,000  (15 bb)
Brian Reinert  –  560,000  (14 bb)
Stuart Breakstone  –  250,000  (6 bb)
Gerardo Gonzalez  –  125,000  (3 bb)

The average chip stack is just over 1,000,000 (25 big blinds). Play is scheduled to continue tonight until a winner is reached or 3:00 am, whichever comes first. That’s not locked in stone, but that’s the schedule.

The field continues to shrink in Event 6 ($125 NLHE w/ $150K Guarantee) as they approach the final table. There are currently 65 players remaining, with an average chip stack around 555,000 (27 big blinds).

Here’s a look at the top two chipleaders and some of the notables still in the field:

1.  Michael Schwiej  –  1,970,000  (98 bb)
2.  Sebastian Tejada  –  1,860,000  (93 bb)

David Jackson  –  1,050,000  (52 bb)
John Mayers  –  1,015,000  (50 bb)
Brian Reinert  –  800,000  (40 bb)
Daniel Buzgon  –  270,000  (13 bb)
Corey Zarnoch  –  240,000  (12 bb)
Garren James  –  235,000  (11 bb)

After 14 half-hour levels, Day 1A of Event 7 is in the books. A total of 78 players bagged up from the 361 entries that began the day and Sterling Savill is on top of the chip counts with 293,300. Here is a look at the top 10 and a few notable chip counts from the session:

1. Sterling Savill – 293,300
2. Jarod Ludemann – 286,800
3. Jose Parra – 274,700
4. Michael Ortiz – 242,200
5. Michael Gallo – 236,500
6. Chad Eveslage – 230,000
7. Andy Hwang – 227,300
8. Michael Laake – 223,600
9. Kevin Lang – 223,100
10. Yaron Wasserman – 212,500

14. Phillip Hui – 180,300
17. Marsha Wolak – 165,600
21. Stuart Paterson – 154,900
39. Michael Tait – 105,200
56. Matt Giannetti – 73,600
59. David Paredes – 68,500
64. Harrison Gimbel – 59,600

The remaining players do have the option to re-enter and would advance to Day 2 (to be played on Sunday) with the biggest of their advancing stacks.

Among the players we have spotted in the Day 1B field so far include 2013 WSOP November Niner Ryan Riess, Sam Taylor, Justin Zaki, WPT champion Tony Ruberto, two-time WPT champion Tommy Vedes, WSOP bracelet-winner Greg Ostrander, Nancy Birnbaum, Ebony Kenney, Kyle Bowker, Alik Sitnyakovsky, Barry Hutter, Jeff Fielder, Darryll Fish, Samantha Cohen, Adam Levy, WPT champion Dwyte Pilgrim, David Diaz, and Sheddy Siddiqui.