Mike Sowers knew what he had to do when action folded to him in the small blind. He moved all in for about 700,000 with . Binh Nguyen quickly called with , priming the railbirds for an elimination. But Sowers hit the flop in a very hard way, as it came down to gave him a pair and a flush draw. Neither the turn nor the that hit the river improved Nguyen. He's down to about 1.0 million in chips; Sowers doubled to 1.4 million.
And so the search for two more eliminations goes on.