After some lengthy and dramatic hand-for-hand play on the bubble, the top 111 finishers from Day 2B are in the money and moving on to Day 3.

This flight was the last chance to get in on the Main Event, and it brought a huge influx of new players and re-entries during the first two levels of play. By the time the late registration period ended at the beginning of level 13, the total number of entries stopped one shy of 500 to put a massive number of chips in play and allowed the Main Event to cover the $2,000,000 prize pool guarantee.

There was over an hour of play on the money bubble that featured numerous situations where players were at risk, but the short stack prevailed in every case. Day 2B was brought to an end by George Chow, who had bagged the chip lead from his starting flight, in a hand against Luc Plamondon. Plamondon found himself in the (un)fortunate position of waking up with pocket aces during hand-for-hand play, and his opening raise picked up a call from Chow with . The king-high flop gave Chow a flush draw, one that came in on the turn to send Plamondon to the rail and put the remaining players into the money.

Here are the chip counts for the Day 3 qualifiers from this flight: