Giancarlo Palleschi just doubled up on table 63 with (what else) a set.

His three 10’s took down Richard Alsup’s , which leaves him better positioned to make the final table, which is now only two eliminations away.

Alexander Allison finished his day in 12th place, taking home $17,800 for his efforts.

After having lost a (very large) pot to another player a few hands previously, he found himself forced to shove in a three-way battle. In the end the cards didn’t go his way, and the other two players chopped it up.

Allison’s day may be over, but congratulations go out to him for a tournament well played. We are now only two eliminations away from the final 9-handed table.

When Evgenii Tsatskin found himself holding pocket Aces, he found a way to put all his chips in the middle preflop. His opponent in this hand, Said El-Yousfi, also had a pocket pair, 10’s.

Unfortunately for Evgenii, and as been happening all evening, a set ended someone’s evening. Said caught a 10 on the flop and didn’t look back, landing Evgenii in 13th place and awarding him $14,500. Congratulations go out to Evgenii for an excellent tournament. The poker continues, and we are almost at the final table, with only 12 players left.

Said El-Yousfi has had a big week. After final-tabling the WPT500 (and finishing 2nd) a few days ago, he finds himself in the hunt for another final table here at the WPTDeepStacks event. And the possibility of making the final table just was just made slightly more likely by his recent double-up.

Although we missed most of the hand, when we arrived at the table the board showed . Said whooped with excitement as he flipped over his , doubling up his stack against his opponent’s .

While he is by no means even close to the chip lead at this point, he has some room to breathe, and to pick his spots from here on out.

After four 60-minute levels the players have now reached their second break of the evening. After a quick chip count, we found that the chip stacks have democratized a little bit, and now we only have two players with stacks that stand out among the rest.

Those two players are David Quang with 5,950,000 chips and Daniel Dubeau with 3,740,000 chips. Level 27 will start shortly, with blinds up to 25K/50K.

Steven Martin had a good run, but he finished his day in 14th place, collecting $14,500.

However, while busting out is always a disappointment – particularly this late in a tournament – Steven had been extremely short-stacked for the last 20+ bust-outs. So in a way, placing 14th was quite a victory!

In fact, he told us that last night, just before the end of the night with about 35 players remaining, he was dealt his favorite marginal hand (10-9 suited) when there ended up being a three-way all in preflop at his table. He resisted the urge to play his favorite marginal hand, and it ended up being a great choice! (Pocket Aces ended up defeating both of the all in challengers at the time, and would have certainly crushed his 10-9).

Today, the hand that beat him was a set of 7’s. The man holding the pocket 7’s was none other than Muhammad Abdel-Rahim. Although we missed the hand entirely, it was reported to us that Steven had a , not enough to beat Muhammad.

Congrats on a great tournament Steven, we’ll see you again soon.