When the action folded around to Derek Lerner, he decided that his nearly-90K stack needed the 15K in blinds lying on the table. He open shoved, but Stephen Langlois was lurking with a monster.
Lerner: 
Langlois: 
Board: 
In the absence of a king on the board, Lerner had to walk away, while Langlois got to add to his already healthy stack and join the leaders.
Things have moved extremely fast in the last half hour. The field shrunk rapidly to 3 tables, and birds continue to fall. Play should slow down soon, as the average stack reach a good number of blinds.
