Before the players went on a short break there was an intense period of play.
First Donald Somers was eliminated in 7th place, losing his just-over-2M-stack to Nazmul Huda on his immediate left.
A few hands later there was a huge hand between the two largest stacks on the table. Simon Tang opened the betting UTG, raising to 450K. It folded around to Alim Perales in the BB who raised to 1.3M. Simon flat called.
The flop came 
. Alim checked, Simon bet 975K and Alim called. The turn was the 
and both players checked. The river was the 
. Alim bet 2M and Simon folded. The hand pushed Alim’s stack to over 10M in chips.
A few minutes later, Jef Roy was eliminated when he called a shove with pocket 9s. The other player showed down AJ. The flop came QTQ, turn 3, and a dirty river T to counterfeit Jef’s 99.