We’re down to two players in Event #15 of the World Series of Poker, a $3,000 No Limit Hold’em Six-Max tournament. What started as a field of 810 is now down to two PocketFivers, Gordon stlouis6Vayo and Davidi legrouzin Kitai (pictured). The two are about equal in chips.

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First place in the tournament will pocket $508,000, while the runner-up will get $314,000. The two had the option to play even more on Saturday night at the Rio in Las Vegas, but according to WSOP coverage, “When Level 30 ended at almost 2:10am on Sunday morning, the players were given the option to play one more level or pause the tournament and return to their seats once they had managed to get some sleep. They agreed to do the latter.”

Kitai, a two-time WSOP bracelet winner, delivered the death blow to Tony Ruberto, who started Saturday’s play as the short stack, to trim the field to two. Ruberto 4bet all-in with A-6, but Kitai had him beat with A-K. Kitai ducked a flush draw to hold on and Ruberto exited in third place.

As a scouting report, Vayo has $1 million in tracked online MTT scores in his PocketFives profile. He plays on PokerStarsas Holla@yoboy and his largest cash came in 2009 in a SCOOP $2,100 PLO tournament for $83,000 after a third place finish. Belgium’s Kitai, a Winamax pro, won bracelets in 2013 and 2008; both of them came in Pot Limit Hold’em events.

All eyes in the tournament were fixated on Phil Hellmuth (pictured), who was in pursuit of his 14th WSOP bracelet, but came up short and ended the day in eighth place after starting in sixth. After raising under the gun, Hellmuth called all-in with A-2, but could not survive against Vayo’s A-7. He recorded his 102nd career WSOP cash, 20 more than the next closest player in that department (Erik Seidel, 82).

Here are the chip stacks entering the finale of Event #15:

1. Gordon stlouis6Vayo – 3,750,000
2. Davidi legrouzinKitai – 3,545,000

Also on Sunday, Event #18, the first ever $10,000 Seven Card Razz tournament, will fire back up with a dozen players out of a starting field of 112. Daniel Negreanu (pictured), who along with Phil Ivey extended a 1:1 bracelet bet, is in third place entering Sunday’s scheduled conclusion. After accepting action on his bet, Negreanu has already finished second in a $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball tournament for $156,000. We smell another sweat on Sunday for those who picked against Negreanu and Ivey.

Here’s how the field looks in Event #18:

1. David Bach – 565,000
2. Brandon Shack-Harris – 369,000
3. Daniel Negreanu – 340,000
4. Dan Irisheyes64 O’Brien – 337,000
5. Todd Dakake – 317,000
6. George Danzer – 286,000
7. Todd Barlow – 261,000
8. Yuval yuvee04 Bronshtein – 221,000
9. Brian Stinger885 Hastings – 194,000
10. Naoya Kihara – 179,000
11. Thomas Butzhammer – 171,000
12. Roland Israelashvili – 121,000

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