Event 41 - $1500 Limit Hold'em, Day 3 of 3, 596 entriesRobert Nehorayan came from second at the end of Day 2 to finish alone on the table at the end of Day 3.
With the $173K first prize, Nehorayan almost tripled his biggest previous biggest cash achieved 11 years ago when he finished 146th in the Main Event.
His final victim, Kevin Song, won his only bracelet 21 years ago (when Tikay was a lad) and David Gee ended third.
The final table were all American except for Oleg Chebotarev, the Russian finishing 7th.
Event 42 - $25K High Roller PLO 8-Max, Day 3 of 4, 230 entriesEvent 42 has reached a final table, and another WSOP veteran is well in contention, 1998 ME winner Scotty Nguyen. Scotty baby leads defending event champion James Calderaro and Shaun Deeb.
Last UK representative, Adam Owen, finished 30th for $41K.
Event 43 - $2500 NLH, Day 2 of 3, 1248 entrantsTwo days down, one (at least) to go with 34 players coming back to fight for the bracelet.
Seth Davies is the chip leader, closely followed by Jeff Hakim and Javier Fernandez, with a distinct gap to the rest of the field.
James Rann is still running well, just outside the top 10, while there are a number of former bracelet holders still in - last year's Player of the Year Chris Ferguson, David Peters, Ryan Laplante & Andreas Klatt.
Event 44 - $10K 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball (Limit) Championship, 109 entriesNine Day 2 entries boosted the field to 109, with 13 of them making Day 3.
Michael Noori was at or near the top of the chip standings most of the day, and ended it with a sizeable lead over Christopher Kruk and Randy Ohel.
Farzad Bonyadi is still alive trying to match his mother's bracelet a few days ago, and another former bracelet holder Calvin Anderson (one of the Day 2 entrants) is still there too, albeit with a shortish stack.
No Brits, Luke Schwartz's position two off the money being the best the UK could get.
Event 45 - $1K Big-Blind Ante NLH (30 minute levels), Day 1 of 2, 1712 entrantsFast and furious action meant just 41 players will come back for the second and final day of Event 45.
Steven Wolansky bagged the biggest stack with 620K chips ahead of
Mackinnon's 532K and Michael Wang's 335K.
Elliott Peterman is the highest ranked Brit in 10th, while Matthew Hunt, Conor Beresford and Andrew Tang are clustered around the high 20s.
Others include two men who've had deep runs in the ME - Joseph Cheong (3rd, 2010) and Martin Staszko (3rd 2011) and three well known female players - Kathy Liebert, Kelly Minkin and Esther Taylor.
Event 46 - $2500 Mixed Omaha/7 Card Stud (both Hi-Lo 8 or better), Day 1 of 3, 402 entries152 of the 402 navigated a day of potenial split pots, aiming for Tikay's favourites, "Scoopio".
Sergio Ramirez collected the largest Day 1 stack, with only Eric Rodawig anywhere near him in terms of chips.
Paul Jackson has a decent stack and lies in 32nd, and the only other Brits through are the West Country duo of Ben Dobson and Robert Price
2005 Main Event winner Joe Hachem has been relatively quiet in recent years, but has made it through Day 1, as has Daniel Negreanu, Kate Hoang, Julien Martini, Robert Mizrachi, Marcel Luske, Perry Friedman, and Barry Greenstein.
Event 47 - $565 WSOP.com Online NLH, Unlimited Re-entry, 1 Day EventThe online PLO event went to Matthew Mendez who collected $135K for over 15 hours work.
The only non-American on the FT, Marton Czuczor was second and Anthony Zinno third.
Scott Clements was multi-tasking this event plus the mixed high/low event above, he busted that short of the money but finished 18th in the online event for $4451 to at least make some profit on the day.
Flight D of Event 6, The Giant, 1167 entrantsThe fourth attempt of qualifying for the later stages of the Giant saw 63 players book their ticket.
Duy Ho is a nice short name with a nice big stack, and Ian Pelz isn't that bad either. Alice Sicconi holds third place.
Four British players qualified, Andrew Wilson, Katie Swift, Michael Bucher and the seemingly omnipresent Adam Owen.
One semi-notable player through is the 12th-placed finisher from last year's ME, Richard Dubini from Argentina.
The Day 2 for this event is next Saturday, 30th June.
To Start Today
Event 48 - $1500 Monster Stack NLH, 4 Day Event (including 2 Day 1s)
Event 49 - $10K 8-Max PLO Championship, 3 Day Event
